Discussion: Before His HHS Nom, Price Had Employer Health Insurance In His Sights

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So I pay somebody $40,000 a year. I also spend $10,000 on health insurance for them. Republicans want to allow me to give the employee $50,000 or $40,000.

Gee, that’s a tough one.

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“What this does is it helps you when you are young, when you are perfectly healthy. But we don’t stay that way,” Blumberg said. “The costs go up tremendously and access decreases tremendously when you have health care needs.”

And as long as the Health Insurance Industry remains a for profit business, it will stay that way. No Republican Magic Unicorn plan is going to change that.

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Why do I feel like insurance is going to get really fucked up before we get any real change…oh yeah Republicans will soon be “in charge”…

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I wonder if Senator Price would keep for his fellow legislators, his gold-level employer-provided subsidized health care plan on the government SHOP program? With a salary of $174,000 other allowances, and benefits, he enjoys the lowest rate of any other health care program in the nation. His subsidy is mandated, income unlimited. ACA subsidies are mandated, income limited. Francella Poston

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This is the party that claims it is pro life. This sick puppy is the spokesman for the Die Already party. And I’ll bet he thinks he’s a Christian too. What a perfect match for Dear Leader. He’s a crook and he has nothing but contempt for anyone who is not as rich as he is. I can’t imagine using this piece of garbage as a doctor; no wonder he became a Republican congressman.

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Tax and spend conservatives at it again. I guess they need resources to fund more tax cuts for the rich and another war or two on the backs of the middle class.

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I guess that when the GOP and Trump said that they would replace it with something better and cheaper, they meant better and cheaper for someone, but not necessarily for the average voter.
I wonder how those Trump voters who get their insurance through their employers will respond to this plan. Will it be enough for T and his spokespeople to claim that the MSM is lying about insurance costs?

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This really sounds like a great approach. Health insurance will be relatively inexpensive when you’re young and don’t need it. But as you get older and start to require more medical attention, insurance becomes completely unaffordable. Wonderful!

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Looking through his bio I believe early on he figured out he could make more money (insider knowledge), and more control if he became a legislator. I believe he’s been a legislator longer than a practicing physician.

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Right after ALL these arrogant fucks eat their own cooking.

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Maybe this pasty fuck can get the ball rolling by demanding congressmen dump their gold-plated plans and enter the individual market. Of course if he goes to prison for insider trading the government will end up paying for his health care anyway…

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So in the last round of discussing insurance, pre-PPACA passage, it was pointed out that employer provided health insurance was a benefit, as in “I won’t pay you more in salary but here’s something of great value that I will pay for and then I will “help” you pay for.” So if we eliminate employees getting health insurance from their employers then they still are not getting a wage/salary increase, they won’t have access to a company manager on health insurance that is doing the comparing and contrasting of plans, and some how some way if the employer just hands an employee a check for what they would have covered there is no guarantee that the employee will use it to buy health insurance. And as we have seen since the 90s people are not health insurance literate.

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I thought free market worshippers wanted to get rid of all government regulations and let the magical market decide winners and losers. Price’s approach is just as dependant on a heavy government thumb as the current system.

I have an idea, why don’t we focus on what people really need and dump all the ideological pretzels?

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But you’ll get a voucher!

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I guess this guy had so much invested in insurance companies and other conflicts of interest that he didn’t care about doctors getting paid any more.

What a low-life.

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Of course if he goes to prison for insider trading
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Did I hear correctly that because he used a broker to buy stock in companies he was hearing testimony on the he doesn’t/didn’t consider that insider trading?

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Good this maniac has been exposed.

The company zombies sitting passively by as Obamacare is being ruined will now know that Trump is coming for them.

Good.

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Price’s position on trading has long been accepted in Congress. How do you think the average Congress member is able to get stinking rich without taking bribes in paper bags.

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The Boehner way of course! Handing out checks on the floor for votes.

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