Posted on 02/21/2017 5:36:39 AM PST by Enlightened1
Good points all. Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
They are afraid to lead.
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They are also afraid of the Chamber of Commerce and their other financial ‘benefactors’. The GOP doesn’t work for us; they work for themselves and the well heeled interest groups and companies that back them.
These elected elites hold court with a parade of favor seekers all day, every day. This is not an exaggeration.
Reagan's tax cuts didn't get Reagan's approval right away either he thought 30% was too much. They settled finally on a 10-10-10 which is less than 30%. They also removed virtually every working man tax deduction which we all seem to unremember.
Good thinking, GG2! When you're sick, you expect to pay something. The important point to cover the huge expenses that can destroy a family's finances.
The $10 co-pay can still be an option, but a much higher co-pay should definitely be one of the options.
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Truthfully it would be easy enough to sit down with the insurance companies and work with them to offer tailored health insurance plans that the average American could afford. For instance a healthy 25 year old could probably skim by with a policy that did not have cancer coverage and maxed out at $150,000 per year with an $800 deductible. Premium maybe $150 per month. We have to wean people off the $10 co-pay.
There are a million custom options that insurance companies could put together into affordable packages.
This HMO/PPO stuff with $10 co-pays is what ruined health insurance to begin with
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It doesn’t take GOVT to sit down to do squat; only to the get the F* out of the picture entirely.
The term ‘insurance’, like everything else govt touches, doesn’t even come close to the definition any more.
Unless it’s a return to the Free Market (I ain’t holding my breath w/ these stooges in ‘leadership’), user-pays for services, it’ll be another 2-steps-forward for govt one-step-back for Freedom.
Just watch for the acronym\title used for the bill to see which way the wind is blowing
The big problem with government is that it does things for political reasons, not economic ones. It always wants more control over people instead of giving them more freedom. Hence, you get all manner of crazy, unworkable and expensive plans and programs.
For a period of a year or two Mr. GG2 did not have insurance. When he went to our family Dr the office visit was $40. When my Mom went to the same Dr the price was $120. If you pay cash its much cheaper because there is no paperwork.
Well instead of sitdown I guess what I am getting at is allow these programs to be developed. Current insurance laws won’t allow a lot of this stuff to be issued to the public.
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