Posted on 09/13/2016 10:56:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
There were approximately 118,395,000 people in the United States who had “government health insurance” at some time during 2015 and 28,966,000 who were uninsured for the entire year, according to numbers released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The number on government health insurance was up 10,108,000 from 2013, when 108,287,000 people in the United States had government health insurance, according to the Census Bureau. […]
Table 1 in the report shows the numbers that the Census Bureau estimated for each type of health insurance coverage based on its Current Population Survey. A footnote to the Table states: “The estimates by type of coverage are not mutually exclusive; people can be covered by more than one type of health insurance during the year.” Another footnote says: “Government health insurance coverage includes Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs), and care provided by the Department o Veterans Affairs and the military.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
All going as planned, of course.
“TRICARE, CHAMPVA (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs), and care provided by the Department o Veterans Affairs and the military”
Here they go, again ... screwing with the numbers to include the on-duty GI’s, the retired GI’s, and the military veterans, adding them into the numbers of the handmeouts!!!
Regardless if they include healthcare for veterans or those on medicare, the information is still useful. As far as I know, medicare/medicaid rates are much lower than what private insurance pays. I have no knowledge about the costs for veterans. I find it useful knowledge as private health care insurance is where the doctors and hospitals compensate for these low rates. It would also be useful if somebody knew the amount of non payment in the system that hospitals have to eat for emergency room visits and/or inability to pay for life saving procedures.
Dear BJ1,
re, as you said:
“I find it useful knowledge as private health care insurance is where the doctors and hospitals compensate for these low rates.”
So you agree with the cost determined by those hsopitals and doctors, as agreeable raping of the American public?
I’ve been uninsured since obamacare’s inception. This is the first year I’m getting the fine. The catastrophic plan I had vanished. The new plans are 3 to 4 times higher with a deductible 3 times higher. Even worst coverage than a catastrophic plan.
If you control someone’s health care you *own* that person.
My wife needs neck surgery soon. Found out today that while the insurance will pay for the surgeon, it will not pay for the facility he practices in. They gave her a list of facilities that are in their network, yet none of those facilities have any in-network surgeons.....
“So you agree with the cost determined by those hospitals and doctors, as agreeable raping of the American public?”
Wanting to be informed is not the same as agreeing with what is being done my friend. I think healthcare is completely unaffordable if you want my opinion. And that’s even if private healthcare insurance, was say 30% lower, so it wasn’t having to carry to the load for other sectors.
Going off topic, but I think you simply need to make ppl pay for their healthcare like other areas in life. At the moment ppl want it for “free” as a bennie from work. That is what spiraled costs out of control more than anything. Have the flu? Go to the doctor. And gosh darn it, demand antibiotics for a your virus regardless how little sense that makes.
ppl = people. habit from typing online too much.
It's not "health insurance"....it's medical welfare.
Dear BJ1,
Healthcare is unaffordable, as it stands now. That includes all the insurance companies paying off the individual State leges, to get their own versions of monopolized healthcare through the State houses.
Now, veterans’ healthcare has been part of the federal government, ever since Lincoln started the ball rolling. If you believe that military veterans, and those on current active duty, and those medically retired from service due to incurred injuries ‘as part of their duty’, MUST PAY THEIR OWN WAY ... I suggest you stop inhaling whatever that is you are inhaling (other than air), and reassess your judgment.
Veterans healthcare from one point of view is just another govt program. You can get coverage for problems that have nothing to do with your time in service. Get mad at me or not. I’m just noting how it works. So all the problems associated with getting old, like heart disease or cancer could be paid by the govt if you were a veteran. Even if that was in peace time. And my original point was, the govt pays lower rates than private insurance.
Maybe that’s one of the things that have always been (medical coverage for illness/injury outside of military service), I really don’t know. But I will hazard a guess that back in Lincoln’s day the program wasn’t set up that way.
Dear BJ 1/2,
Your response tells me that you are/were not a veteran, nor attached to a military family, and that you were born after the Fall of The Berlin Wall.
You said:
“But I will hazard a guess that back in Lincoln’s day the program wasn’t set up that way.”
HAZARD A GUESS?!?!?!?
This is 2016!! The Internet and The Information Age has been going since before the 1990’s!!
By your very words, i.e., ‘hazard to guess’, tells me that you don’t really care to find out what Lincoln had set up for the veterans, or what the veterans are faced with, today, because you just lump all that into, I Quote YOU, ‘one big government program’.
I refuse any sort of half-handed ‘thank you with the middle finger’ you might provide.
What’s it matter how old I am or if I served? The point I was making is that the govt is interfering with the healthcare market by paying lower rates for the healthcare they provide from medicare/medicaid and VA. You are taking offense to something I said. No offense but the thread wasn’t about veterans issues. I don’t care for you making it that in your replies. You care about, find a veteran health news article and post your own thread on it.
Dear BJ1,
Just remember, come this Veterans’ Day, thaty a lot of folks died, so you could envision and thrive in that paradigm of your’s.
Have a nice life.
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