osxmatt Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 HealtCare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Americans have often described their health insurance as "beloved". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 10 minutes ago, finaljedi said: Americans have often described their health insurance as "beloved". I absolutely love being personally on the hook for thousands of dollars in the event anyone in my family has an elective emergency, you really get to price things out and get a good deal. Signed, $5,000+ in out of pocket in medical costs in the two and a half years my daughter has been alive (birth and two ER visits) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 "Premiums (cost)" He wrote that because someone just explained that to him five minutes ago, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 13 minutes ago, Ricofoley said: "Premiums (cost)" He wrote that because someone just explained that to him five minutes ago, right? “He said “sir you know what they are charging us for our premiums” and I said that’s like the monthly cost that the insurance makes you pay but it’s not such good insurance if you can’t use the coverage you pay for when you get it.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Just now, osxmatt said: “He said “sir you know what they are charging us for our premiums” and I said that’s like the monthly cost that the insurance makes you pay but it’s not such good insurance if you can’t use the coverage you pay for when you get it.” What can health insurance premiums cost, Michael? $12? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I can't wait till their plan is "Tax deductions on go fund me payments!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I think it's hilarious that, with so many Republicans up for re-election in the Senate and House in 2020, that Trump thinks he'll keep the Senate and win the House back. If anything, he's going to lose the Senate too while the Dems keep the House. He's Mana-fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 46 minutes ago, osxmatt said: If only some would sooner than others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 "You gotta reelect me if you want to see the health care plan I couldn't deliver in Year 1 #MAGA" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I sometimes wonder if Republicans won't regret their all-out war on Obamacare. IMO, Obamacare is still fundamentally what it was originally billed as: a pretty good compromise between socialized healthcare and a privatized system. If Republicans had made a good faith effort to tweak the legislation to make it work better rather than reject it out-of-hand in the hopes of reaping short-term political gain, they might have actually gotten something closer to a well-functioning market-based system for healthcare that also manages to fill in the 'gaps' in the market architecture that socialized healthcare systems are meant to address. And that would have snuffed out the appeal of calls to socialize healthcare for at least a generation. But they didn't do that, feeling content to sabotage the system every step of the way, and I think partially as a result we're already seeing strong support amongst millenials for socialized medicine. In the meantime, they've undermined their ability to state the obvious: that having health insurance attached entirely to employment, as it was pre-Obamacare, does not create an efficient market for healthcare, even by the severely limited and skewed definition of 'efficiency' they tend to apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Republican healthcare: 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 37 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said: I sometimes wonder if Republicans won't regret their all-out war on Obamacare. IMO, Obamacare is still fundamentally what it was originally billed as: a pretty good compromise between socialized healthcare and a privatized system. If Republicans had made a good faith effort to tweak the legislation to make it work better rather than reject it out-of-hand in the hopes of reaping short-term political gain, they might have actually gotten something closer to a well-functioning market-based system for healthcare that also manages to fill in the 'gaps' in the market architecture that socialized healthcare systems are meant to address. And that would have snuffed out the appeal of calls to socialize healthcare for at least a generation. But they didn't do that, feeling content to sabotage the system every step of the way, and I think partially as a result we're already seeing strong support amongst millenials for socialized medicine. In the meantime, they've undermined their ability to state the obvious: that having health insurance attached entirely to employment, as it was pre-Obamacare, does not create an efficient market for healthcare, even by the severely limited and skewed definition of 'efficiency' they tend to apply. Republicans have literally spent a decade trying to repeal a law that people like and replace it with a plan they don’t have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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