The Obama Healthcare Solution
Everyone complains about healthcare. So a while back, Duval Patrick signed into law a plan in Massachusetts that required residents to have healthcare or be fined heavily. Not a solution, more like a band aid for a major laceration. The lower income groups still really don't have healthcare. They just have a $200.00 a month money pit that offers them real no coverage.
At $200.00 a month, you basically have around a $1000.00 deductable, meaning all fees are yours to pay until the $1000.00 has been spent from your pocket. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, this scenario doesn't work as you don't have the money to spend to begin with. So you go to the hospital during an emergency, don't pay the emergency room fee (which in many plans is in addition to the deductable), and money for your deductable later being billed for an amount that will go into collections. Sounds like the same scenario without imposed healthcare? It is.
Also, in a plan this cheap that you are footing the bill for on your own as your employer is Uncle Fred's Pizza, your surgical coverage is almost nill, your co-pays for medications and office visits are insane, and some things simply aren't covered.
This is a better choice? This is change? Obama had better realize quickly that the Duval Patrick system of healthcare is nothing more than a band aid where a tourniquet is required. How about a minimal healthcare system where a reduced fee is payed per month for the economically challenged that is easier on the wallet and does not have un-covered areas. You can't completely socialize our healthcare without un-employing millions of people.
Change means different ideas, not re-hashed bad ones that didn't accomplish anything. Let's see what you are made of, Obama.
At $200.00 a month, you basically have around a $1000.00 deductable, meaning all fees are yours to pay until the $1000.00 has been spent from your pocket. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, this scenario doesn't work as you don't have the money to spend to begin with. So you go to the hospital during an emergency, don't pay the emergency room fee (which in many plans is in addition to the deductable), and money for your deductable later being billed for an amount that will go into collections. Sounds like the same scenario without imposed healthcare? It is.
Also, in a plan this cheap that you are footing the bill for on your own as your employer is Uncle Fred's Pizza, your surgical coverage is almost nill, your co-pays for medications and office visits are insane, and some things simply aren't covered.
This is a better choice? This is change? Obama had better realize quickly that the Duval Patrick system of healthcare is nothing more than a band aid where a tourniquet is required. How about a minimal healthcare system where a reduced fee is payed per month for the economically challenged that is easier on the wallet and does not have un-covered areas. You can't completely socialize our healthcare without un-employing millions of people.
Change means different ideas, not re-hashed bad ones that didn't accomplish anything. Let's see what you are made of, Obama.
1 comments:
How about this??? I had health care 20 years ago that was workable and affordable and it was , BUT, this was before the gummint got involved, and collection agencies were a bigger part of health care than the actual cervix... Government involvement in health care has resulted in a disaster just like it does when the government is involved in anything except possibly mail delivery, car registration, and national defense... Wow now there is a non winning argument... Government health care??? Just say no...
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