But this version still has the strong mandate even Obama couldn’t get? This is ACA Plus.
I don’t understand how this fixes current healthcare problems. Am I still going to pay thousands of dollars a year for health coverage with a $6000 deductible?
I'm already looking at Costa Rica or Hungary to get dental work done. Hungary has one of the best dentistry clinics in the world and it's far cheaper than the U.S. Implants are just $500-$1,000 per tooth, and that includes the crown, implant, and the bone graft.
Am I missing something — it hasn’t even made it to the senate, yet?
If this doesn’t pass, the Dems will go into an unprecedented gloat.
Bump for morning
People with pre-existing conditions do not need insurance. They need charity.
The sooner our society understands that, the sooner we can provide them with better care.
A pre-existing condition is a planned claim. That is not “insurance” any more than if you could buy fire “insurance” to pay a “claim” after your house has burned down.
This is still an insurance company boondoggle and another program designed for fraud. Only a straight repeal followed by interstate insurance and medical competition oversight can work.
With “pre-existings” in the same pool as everyone else, “age 26”, and the “EHB provisions” still in there, and a lot of the taxes/fees removed, AHCA will death spiral faster that the original Obamacare! No premium relief for hardworking Americans who need to purchase insurance.
Could it work to have government paid catastrophic coverage (yearly & lifetime) for everyone and let insurers provide everything below that? I’m assuming a pretty high yearly limit guaranteed by gov’t so insurers are still needed (i.e. multiples of $100k, not $5000) and can provide everything from complete care to mini-catastrophic (up to govt limit) policies.
Anyone could have a health catastrophe today. There’s a low chance but high cost that we all face. The risk is known to be greater for some people who’s pre-existing conditions have been diagnosed. But there are plenty of undiagnosed issues and plenty of people who will randomly get something like cancer. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to share that risk through taxes, especially if we are saying the government is paying a significant amount for health care/insurance anyhow. It seems far better to share that risk through federal taxes than through the complex system of money transfers/payments/taxes/fines/etc that we are setting up.
Insurers’ risk would be limited for both known and unknown pre-existing conditions. They’d be much better able to calculate their risk/cost and provide a range of policies for different people based on how much risk/cost I want at any point in my life. We are moving away from anything resembling insurance with these proposals, into a system where “those who can afford it” pay medical costs for “everyone”. The single-payer is “ those who can afford it” rather than the government, with a complex system for their money to go through the system. It is single-payer even if politicians won’t admit it and have all the payments go through the government.
The purpose of the mandate, subsidies, fines, and all the other complexities that Ds and Rs are putting in place is to hide the fact that they are setting up a single-payer system where there is little/no insurance in the traditional sense, just a complex system to get money from some people who can afford it to anyone who needs it. Companies who provide insurance for other things happen to be the ones who handle distributing money to health care providers, but the “insurance” part of their role is being greatly reduced.
On another note, is any politician ever again going to talk about HEALTH CARE COSTS rather than how to pay?
Republicans now own it. They’re fools.