Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by jinx

But if I show up in an ER they'll want to see proof that Ive paid for insurance, right?

I suspect that in the end, the verification step will happen as part of your yearly taxes. Show proof of insurance, or $3,800 (or whatever the final penalty is) gets tacked on to your tax bill. The hospital will ask for insurance information and/or direct payment, like they do now, and some people will still tell them they have none, like they do now. At most the hospital will report you to whatever agency for having no insurance, while still treating you.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I suspect that in the end, the verification step will happen as part of your yearly taxes. Show proof of insurance, or $3,800 (or whatever the final penalty is) gets tacked on to your tax bill. The hospital will ask for insurance information and/or direct payment, like they do now, and some people will still tell them they have none, like they do now. At most the hospital will report you to whatever agency for having no insurance, while still treating you.

I guess that is possible if that part of the bill makes it to final passage. The bill still has not provided for a lot of the problems that are needed to fix healtcare today. And we are about to spend a whole lot of money not fixing it.