(June 26, 2017 at 6:45 pm)Court Jester Wrote: Everyone is blaming the government and the insurance companies.
When are people going to start pointing at the medical companies and/or hospitals charging $6,000 for MS medication (as in a previous post) and 10 times high for a lot of other stuff?
Maintain and manage the problem or fix the problem? What's the goal?
You see, under a single payer plan the greedy corporate fucks can't get away with that. As with medicare, they either deal with it or they can go out of business. I had an overnight stay at a hospital last summer for "monitoring" and the bill was something like $16,000. My Medicare insurance plan paid them about $3,000 and I paid $150. And don't think the republicunts don't understand that.
Here's another aspect of the problem that they apparently can't stand, either.
http://time.com/money/4765443/obamacare-...y-decline/
Quote:As legislators and the executive branch renew their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act this week, they might want to keep in mind a little-known financial consequence of the ACA: Since its adoption, far fewer Americans have taken the extreme step of filing for personal bankruptcy.Filings have dropped about 50%, from 1,536,799 in 2010 to 770,846 in 2016 (see chart, below). Those years also represent the time frame when the ACA took effect. Although courts never ask people to declare why they’re filing, many bankruptcy and legal experts agree that medical bills had been a leading cause of personal bankruptcy before public healthcare coverage expanded under the ACA. Unlike other causes of debt, medical bills are often unexpected, involuntary, and large.
Wow. the Middle Class isn't being crushed by debt? Can't have that can we, Mr. WLB?
