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16th January 2017, 10:01 AM | #1 |
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Trump: "[health] insurance for everybody," Replacing the ACA
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN15005C
The ACA requires you have health insurance. Remember the cries of "SOCIALISM!" Looks like Mr. Trump might be a socialist as well. Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in replacing Obamacare. "“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” Mr. Trump said. |
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16th January 2017, 10:04 AM | #2 |
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It's meaningless. They will offer something for all. What it is and costs will be seen later. Many will not afford it.
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16th January 2017, 10:06 AM | #3 |
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$5 says they just try to put a party hat on their 'state lines and more deregulations' bit they've been pushing as an alternative.
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16th January 2017, 10:13 AM | #4 |
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Well unless they're going to "repeal" the ACA and suddenly throw hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidy at the problem I cannot see how they are going to lower deductibles, cover everyone and keep premiums in the current ballpark.
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16th January 2017, 10:13 AM | #5 |
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Health insurance for everybody is a good idea. In my country, we have had that for three generations. But where is Mr. Trump going to find the money?
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16th January 2017, 10:15 AM | #6 |
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16th January 2017, 10:16 AM | #7 |
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Another example of Trump's divorce from reality.
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16th January 2017, 10:16 AM | #8 |
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16th January 2017, 10:18 AM | #9 |
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16th January 2017, 10:22 AM | #10 |
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So Single Payer?
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16th January 2017, 10:22 AM | #11 |
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It's right in there with the secret plan for defeating ISIS and the plan for The Southern Maginot Line That Mexico Will Pay For. Not to mention the foolproof plan to make coal King again.
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16th January 2017, 10:24 AM | #12 |
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My wife was telling me about a friend who was apparently in a car accident last weekend. Didn't need ambulance or anything, but the day after was throwing up.
She asked for advice on facebook. The obvious answer was, "go to the doctor." No, she didn't want to do that because she wanted avoid the doctor bill. There's the answer to our health care problems! Just use facebook. It's free! |
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16th January 2017, 10:30 AM | #13 |
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There was alrrerady insurance for everybody before Obamacare, they just had to pay for it. That'll be the new plan.
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16th January 2017, 10:35 AM | #14 |
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16th January 2017, 10:35 AM | #15 |
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Not true. Neither myself nor my wife could purchase health coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
I have said this before, but a lot of the confusion and acrimony surrounding this discussion would go away if we stopped calling it health "insurance." Insurance is something purchased to hedge your bets against something that may or may not happen. This is not the case with health care -- you will need it, unless you die by jumping out of an airplane. |
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16th January 2017, 10:38 AM | #16 |
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16th January 2017, 10:41 AM | #17 |
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The government = the insurance provider.
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16th January 2017, 10:42 AM | #18 |
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16th January 2017, 10:45 AM | #19 |
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Yeah, and that's why Ryan has been babbling about making it so everyone "has access" to insurance.
In the Ryan plan, insurance companies can't deny you insurance. Of course, you will pay through the ass for it, but you "have access." Therefore, if you don't get insurance, it is your fault, not the company's. I mean, just because you aren't able to pay $10K/mo premiums doesn't mean you don't have access.
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This is one of the biggest problems we have, that people don't understand what insurance means. Remember, one of the fundamental principles of insurance is that most people pay more in premiums than they get back. But that is because you aren't paying into a payment program, you are paying for insurance that your bills will be covered in the selected circumstances. The problem we have with insurance is that people think they need to "win" to get their money's worth. No, they don't. Insurance that you will be covered has value. That is what you pay for. |
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16th January 2017, 10:45 AM | #20 |
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And the net benefit is a single risk pool, which is what the ACA should have done. Instead it combined the risk of people with pre-existing conditions with a group that tended to be young, healthy and poor. The young people were told they need to pay their fair share, but unwilling to sacrifice food for other peoples healthcare, a lot of young people opted out which is increasing prices again...
A single risk pool, or barring that, state-wide risk pools per insurance company, are the only reasonable alternatives. |
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16th January 2017, 11:09 AM | #21 |
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Basically like Medicare. Care provided by private doctors and hospitals, bills paid by a government plan from taxes paid by everyone and supplementary premiums paid by the insured. As opposed to national systems where providers are government employees, like the VA and Britain's National Health.
The four main models of how to provide health coverage: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...es/models.html |
16th January 2017, 11:17 AM | #22 |
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That's "community rating," which is often resisted because it would tend to hold down premiums for people in the individual market but boost them for people in big corporate plans.
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16th January 2017, 11:25 AM | #23 |
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I don't think that's true. We buy car insurance and still hope we never have an accident. We buy homeowners' insurance, but we don't want our houses to burn down. We understand we're paying for protection against catastrophe. The underlying problem is that people with good corporate health insurance don't fully understand how much health care actually costs, so that's why our premiums seem high. We pay our little copay, and the doc or the hospital bills the insurance company for hundreds or thousands of dollars. The uncontrolled cost of care pretty much drives everything else in our health care system.
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16th January 2017, 11:27 AM | #24 |
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Yeah, that's the odd thing about it. We understand for car insurance that our goal is to never use it. But when it comes to health insurance, we feel we have to "win" and get more out of it than we put in. We understand other insurance, but don't treat health insurance that way.
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16th January 2017, 11:46 AM | #25 |
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I have 10 on betting they will have a minimum plan which will cost nothing e.g. 30$ but offer no protection and have you pay your own health care until it reach a very high minimum , say 30.000$.
Like many such "cheap" plan people were talking about but in reality offered no coverage whatsoever. |
16th January 2017, 11:49 AM | #26 |
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I love how people say Trump can't provide health-care for everyone. These are the same naysayers who said he "couldn't" win. He's going to prove so many of you wrong again and again and again that eventually you're going to get tired of being proven wrong.
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16th January 2017, 11:52 AM | #27 |
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so..what does it cost you to go to the doc?
for example, a basic preventative check like a pap smear, what would that cost you? for me, it's $35 or $40 after I pay in full the balance is automatically credited back to my account, |
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I hope I'm wrong but I can't see how and Trump's lack of transparency on everything doesn't help inspire any hope.
For instance, there is the problem that all the Republican who ran on just repealing Obamacare. A lot of them don't want a replacement. How is Trump going to change their minds? |
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16th January 2017, 12:14 PM | #30 |
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“There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
Wouldn't those "circles" be the Republican Party? And honestly, at this point I think we'd almost be willing to do that, if for no other reason than to get the lot of them to shut up about it...... |
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16th January 2017, 12:36 PM | #31 |
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The point is that the U.S spends enormous amount of money on health care now. Plans for a single-payer system would transfer the money now being spent on insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays, uncompensated care, administrative expenses, etc. to the public purse. If your taxes went up to pay for Medicare-for-All or something like that, but you no longer had to pay insurance premiums or big deductibles, would it really be more money, and would you be better off or worse?
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