MaggieD
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Average bear, smarter then. Simple.
What the hell does that mean?
Average bear, smarter then. Simple.
I, on the other hand, think we have some obligations for the larger good. I pay property taxes of $4,400 a year on my little house. More than half of that amount is used to educate our children. I don't have any. I don't look at that as a terrible thing. Perhaps you would.
other - Required free birth control.
BUT WAIT, according to an email I received from HR:
So the required part is really not required for certain plans. nice.
Average bear, smarter then. Simple.
What the hell does that mean?
Means there is always a way to get around things. Always.
Yes we know you're not as smart as an average bear which is why you brought up your employer coverage when everyone knows that has nothing to do with the problem.
If you've always gotten your insurance through your job, you don't understand the problem. Group policies through one's employer don't discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. Your pre-existing condition might cause you not to get hired by an employer because of it. But once you're hired? You're good to go.
Nineteen million people in this country buy their health insurance individually. Those with health problems are not able to buy insurance at any price...so that figure might be twice that....?
Have diabetes? No health insurance for you. Had a heart attack? None for you either. Have high blood pressure? Maybe you'll get insurance. Had cancer? You're out of luck. Lie on your application? When you make a claim, your insurance company would investigate your application to make SURE you didn't lie on it. If you did? You'd get your premiums refunded and no claim paid. Unless a person used a false name when getting medical care, your records are out there. And you would be caught and left to pay your bills on your own.
That has to do with what?Yep. There's always a way to get around being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Don't visit the doctor=no pre-existing conditions!
Tax the rich.It seems like some of the worry is that healthy people will join special "Healthy Person" insurance plans and sick people will join Obamacare. This will result in (possibly rich) healthy people paying less for insurance than Obamacare. It will also create a vicious cycle in which Obamacare will become more and more unsustainable. Obamacare needs healthy people to pay for the sick ones, the question is how to make that happen.
Tax the rich.
So you complain about others having to pay for extra resources while still complaining that you don't have to pay or receive those extra resources?
What we had before wasn't working. What don't people understand about pre-existing conditions? Without Obamacare and the mandated coverage it provides for, millions of people don't have health insurance. Can't buy it at any price.
I, on the other hand, think we have some obligations for the larger good. I pay property taxes of $4,400 a year on my little house. More than half of that amount is used to educate our children. I don't have any. I don't look at that as a terrible thing. Perhaps you would.
A few months ago I went to the emergency room for "chest pains". I did that because in 2009 I had heart surgery, which ran about $130,000, so naturally chest pains might be a serious problem for me.
12 hours in the emergency room was over $16,000.00. Tests of various kinds were conducted, but no invasive procedures were performed. The diagnosis was "inflation of chest muscles and connective tissue" around ribs and the breast bone located over the heart area. Why did that happen? Nobody knows. I didn't do any activities that might have led to that occurring.
$16,000.00 is a chunk of buckitos for most folks. And especially a person who doesn't have insurances to at least pay for 80 percent...or hell...even 50 percent. But if I didn't have insurance there's a good chance no company would insure me now...well, under the system where insurance companies considered me a high risk.
I'm lucky to have a superior insurance with no current threat that would force me to relinquish it. Or surrender it for an exchange insurance. Not yet. But who knows? Anything is possible now days.
Under the "silver" plan, for that $16,000 procedure, you would need $5,000 + $6400 co-pay. Meaning insurance would have paid $3,400 of it. Your annual insurance premium likely was higher - so even with no insurance it would have cost you LESS than with an ACA silver plan. Since the premiums go up for the gold and platinum plan, it is likely you would have spent more with ACA insurance than no insurance at all.
Besides, knowing you had chest pains you could have quickly signed up for ACA insurance at that point in them and then had the insurance anyway.
Calling coverage for pre-existing conditions "insurance" is an oxymoron, a word game.
Wouldn't be great if they offered auto insurance for "pre-existing accident damage" that would repair accident damage that occurred before you bought the policy? If they did, why would anyone buy insurance until they had an accident?
Personally, unless it's free it would seem a person is economically incompetent to buy insurance until you need it - if by law you have to be sold the insurance at the same rate if you ever do need it. Since the being-an-American-annual-tax (penalty) for not having insurance is significantly lower than the insurance premium and given the huge premiums, deductible and co-pay requirements, why buy "insurance" until you need it?
That makes no sense to me. What would make sense is NOT buying the insurance and saving the premiums so that if you DO suffer a major medical issue you then have the money to not only buy the policy, but also have the money for the deductible and co-pay so you then actually CAN get treatment from the insurance. For millions of people, that would be the only way they would have the deductible and co-pay to be able to use the insurance anyway.
Can ANYONE give a rational reason to buy the costly insurance before you need it since you can't be turned down if you ever do?
I pay more in property taxes - and 90% of our property is tax exempt.
Your example does not work. School taxes do not make me pay for irresponsible behavior nor reward it. I also see school taxes as benefiting my family and myself because of the social and economic benefits of children being educated (and kept off the street).
People keep debating ObamaCare as if it is what the president says - when it's a lie. Poor and working people do NOT have $5000 deductible. Do not have $12,700 per year deductible. Do NOT have 20, 30, 40% copay.
Just for that, all the words are just a massive lie.
Here is what ObamaCare REALLY did:
1. Previously, large employers HAD to provide medical insurance for their employees. Now they do not. ObamaCare is MASSIVE corporate welfare via the law eliminating required employer paid employee medical coverage. This was a MASSIVE change that is essentially never mentioned nor ever justified by Obama and company.
2. Most indigent healthcare WAS paid for thru property taxes (ie the "hospital district"). The wealthier in real property a person or company was, the most they paid in taxes towards indigent healthcare - in effect a "progressive" health tax. ObamaCare is to shift indigent healthcare costs from a progressive tax primarily on the upper income people to instead a flat tax against working people - in the form insurance premiums radically raised with raised deductibles to cover indigent healthcare.
3. ObamaCare took healthcare decisions away from you and gave it to the government - by dictating what will and won't be paid for - and how much for each. Personally, we often opt for alternative methods in health issues, meaning insurance won't cover it anyway even if done by a doctor. In this, ObamaCare also takes virtual total control over medical decisions from doctors and gives it to the government. People not in the medical profession in DC, not you nor your doctor, now decide how to treat your medical conditions by deciding what they will and won't pay for - while you are paying for medical treatment you wouldn't even accept via the premiums.
4. ObamaCare - via huge deductibles and copay - gives justification to deny major medical care to the poor and lower middle class - while at the same time telling the huge lie that they are getting "free" insurance. Since they don't have the deductible and copay, in fact they have no usable insurance whatsoever.
5. ObamaCare attempts to defacto nationalize the medical profession and healthcare facilities by establishing a national price structure for medical services. As more and more medical professionals and facilities are opting not to play, the result is increasing threats to require such persons to do and take whatever the government demands of them or be banned from their profession.
Virtually all the ways the ACA is being discussed and debated has little to do with the ACA and often even is exactly the opposite from reality. People are furiously debating both sides of something that doesn't exist as it is being debated.
Joko, I'm telling you that we don't know enough about Obamacare to make some of the statements you've made here. First of all, are you sure that those who get the health insurance subsidies pay the deductible? Or is that partly or wholly subsidized as well? Most all of us are going into this debacle blind.
The 30% co-pay you read about is, as I understand it, paid only until one reaches their deductible amount. If you can find anything contrary to that, I'd like to see it. Something else that isn't clear about Obamacare, in my opinion.
Large employers have NEVER been forced to provide healthcare insurance. Ever.
Your property taxes include "hospital district." Illinois' don't. And you say your school taxes don't reward irresponsible behavior? What about the 50% of inner-city kids who don't graduate? Who can barely read? Who can't put an intelligent sentence down on paper?
Your insurance company has almost always decided what will be paid for by your insurance. I fail to see anything that changes that in Obamacare. If you have something, I'd like to see it. If I want my doctor to do a CT scan? He'll find a way for Obamacare to pay for it if it's at all indicated. Doctors aren't going to get into malpractice waters. They'll do what they've always done -- what their patients want. Unless people stupidly sign up for HMO's.
I think many of the fears we've been led to believe aren't true. I haven't been able to get a decent description on ONE healthplan since October 1st.
I normally like posts that knock down hyperbole with facts, but I have a policy of not liking posts that respond to bat-crap crazy posts.
It only encourages people to respond to bat-crap crazy
So.
Which one of us posted bat-crap crazy?
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Means there is always a way to get around things. Always.