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01-11-2012, 04:01 PM | #1 | |
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Some people with a hell of a lot of power, wayyyy up there in the world of big pharm, got this passed to make them a fuckton of money. Talk about corruption!!
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[quote=classicman;786911... Why can't that part alone get changed?
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Classic, I read the "Absolutely. Why can't that part alone get changed? " as your comment.
So, I'm asking if you feel the "pre-existing condition" aspect should be kept or deleted from Obamacare ? |
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I guess my post was poorly written, but I was curious as to whether that particular piece,
or any for that matter could be changed. The point was regarding medicare, not Obamacare. However with respect to you pre-existing question, no I don't think it should be changed. May I ask why you brought that up. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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mainly because I don't really see Medicare and Obamacare as having separate or different goals. |
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01-12-2012, 07:43 AM | #11 |
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Right, currently the hospital has to charge you $900 for a $2 thermometer, because they aren't getting paid by all the people with no insurance.
Under the new--and dare I suggest, better--plan, the hospital can now charge everyone normal prices, because the insurance company is paying them for every patient. And the health insurance company will be charging you $100 for nothing (assuming you don't get sick,) just like your auto insurance company is currently charging you $100 for nothing (assuming you don't get in a wreck.) |
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I have been convinced both by living in a single-payer country and by the reams of economic and statistical evidence that a free-market system of health care, where your means and your means alone determine your health care, aside from any emotional or moral argument for universal coverage, introduces huge costs to the system when the uninsured require care, huge costs to the public when people get sick, languish, malinger, spread contagion, and otherwise suffer for lack of health care, and huge costs to healthy people as health care providers need more money from patients (thus from insurance companies (who then accordingly raise their rates)), to pay for the ones who aren't insured. On top of the drawbacks to public health and to those WITH insurance or wealth, it is in the best interest of insurance companies to deny coverage in as many cases as possible - since profit is king, finding (legal if not legitimate) reasons not to pay policyholders is an advantage. With a single-payer system, where the government underwrites your insurance policy (which can be supplemented by private policies, but not replaced by, like a public option), we again get a collective risk/responsibility equation - but one where the scale and power of the government, coupled with the fact that the program would need to at best only break even, means that the delivery, to you, of quality, fast, efficient, cheap health care would be the #1 priority of both your insurer AND your doctor. Costs for the uninsured would also fall dramatically - I was not covered under Taiwan's single-payer system, as a foreigner, but for even relatively major things like root canals or ER visits, we would often pay out of pocket and find that it would literally not be worth submitting the claim to our insurance, once deductibles and processing and international mail were dealt with. of course, obamacare isn't single-payer, or even public-option - it's only an individual mandate, the conservative (well, conservative until obama went for it and the right jumped ship) alternative to single-payer. I personally think that an individual mandate is a good thing for public health, but a better thing - too much so - for insurance companies, and leaves itself open to abuse. It might be better than things were, but it's just a teeny baby step, and one that leaves us more at the mercy of corporate health-care. ...and there is nothing else in obamacare to hate. Is there? Because the death panels are a lie. the end of "preexisting condition" denial is almost universally liked - if you have an argument against it please, by all means, out with it, but I can't possibly think of one. I agree with you that it's flawed and doesn't do enough to reign in costs, but is the solution just to dissolve it entirely? If you think it doesn't do enough, wouldn't you support MORE regulation, a STRONGER obamacare?
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A very good discussion, Ibram.
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Sure there is, plenty.
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