Want to make the Affordable Care Act actually affordable again? Two quick changes: remove mandatory maternity coverage, and reinstate the proper differential rates for men and women. And whamo, you slice through the cost of coverage.
Because those are the two demons in PelosiCare - mandatory coverage for maternity which was optional coverage in the past, and different rates for men and women (since, you know, the are actually physically different.)
Instead, it is liberal dream world - men and women are entirely equal, maternity coverage for everyone (how many 40 year olds really need maternity coverage anyway? How about 70 year olds?)
So there’s no way in the world that rates will ever drop. It will just increase by incredible amounts each year (and likely will increase BEFORE coverage even begins on January 1st...) All because of the kitchen sink mentality of what liberals imagine coverage should be.
Pile up 900 channels your average customer will never watch in order to sell a high-priced product to folks who only want to watch 30.
The feds fought for years to keep inter-state regulations in place to prevent you and I from buying insurance from other states.
They fought tooth and nail, at the behest of insurance companies, to only allow you to buy what was offered in YOUR state. States regulated what must be covered.
In Illinois, the only policies allowed were those that covered chiropractic, aroma-therapy, acupuncture, holistic medicine, mammograms, child-birth, etc.
A single male who did not want any of those things, could not shop around for any other policy.
You HAD to have (and still do) those things in your policy, because the state regulates what must be in the policy, and we were not allowed to shop around to other states, which don’t have such requirements. Or even buy insurance from other countries.
This whole thing would have been great if they just opened up the regulations in all 50 (or 57 in Obama’s cases) states, to allow folks to buy insurance from whomever they wanted.
We all know it is a shell game, just follow the money.
I’m betting almost all D’s in congress are gonna get some piece of the pie and a very good percent of R’s as well.
Money talks, BS walks, we know the story.
Not going to happen, that’d destroy its primary function as a wealth redistribution scheme.
70 year olds? I’m confused; is DeathCare replacing Medicare?
No communist healthcare can be fixed. It’s like the RINO’s saying they can to do worse better.