Love it! “Phantom number” = fake news!
Trump should tell Schumer to put up a plan within 30 days that would keep obamacare from becoming a complete train wreck. It is clearly crashing. Put up or shut up, Chuckie.
How about “11 million illegal aliens?” That will also turn out to be Very Fake News, because TX has about 2 million and CA has at least 3 million, so 11 million is far too low.
As long as the government is in it, it is un-Constitutional.
I beg my doctor to just tell them I was there, give me the prescription and bill me, but no. That is what happens when government bureaucrats and policy wonks make up health care rules.
This. I have a condition that every once in awhile flares up and I need antibiotics. My doctor knows it. I know it. But can I just call and get the same antibiotics they give me every time? No. I have to do an office visit which gets billed to my insurance for a 5 minute visit. Ridiculous.
Free markets for insurance including choice. Free markets in the supply chain that support healthcare. Tort reform. All necessary for the repeal of the ACA. Yet none of it will solve our so called healthcare crisis until published prices for hospital and physician care can be brought into reason. I have recently had a relatively simple ER visit priced at $7K and a 30 minute outpatient surgery priced at $67K. Even negotiating those price down would leave an average person broke. Will market reforms drive those prices down? Thoughts and opinions appreciated?
Somebody please explain how insurance cost will be reduced when a hospital charges $8,000.00 per hour for a wrist surgery? 3 hours in and out, 30 min. pre-op 90 min surgery and 60 min. post op. Total hospital charge was $24,000.
So long as Little Robbie and the crew at MO.org are among the 32MM, I'm OK with that.
#2 - I reject anything that ‘requires’ me to buy insurance. I’d do it for my family, to secure their position while protecting my health, but to subject, key word being ‘subject’ anything to buy something ‘because the crown has decreed so because you are breathing’ is unacceptable.
I hope to GOD Republicans are not just looking for another nanny-state replacement for the ACA - Obamacare lite, without all the IRS enforcement. This is why the Left always wins in the end.
They MUST return health-care to the market. Give tax and regulatory benefits to those doctors and patients who deal directly in CASH, with payments and costs made between themselves.
ANY 3rd party system, whether government or private insurance, will, in some way, distort the process. Government will distort it badly, but large-scale private insurance, especially if complex, does the same.
I remember when Gore came up with a plan to take care of the health of a few thousand kids - the money he wanted to use would have insured a million or more....it’s the Democrat way - throw as much money away as possible to do the lousiest possible job.
> The Affordable Care Act (ACA aka Obamacare) brought a sledgehammer to something they should have brought a ball-peen hammer to fix. It should have addressed only the uninsured plus the major challenge for the rest of us: pre-existing conditions
Oh? The federal government should provide a program for persons without health insurance?
When you begin from a faulty premise there’s no point in reading any further.
Get the employer out of health insurance. We get housing, food, clothing, transportation without the employer.
Not everyone is employed.