“It lets people buy what works for them and their families—what they want, not what the government wants them to have.”
LOL! What a lovely euphemization.
Translation: “It lets the insurance industry return to preying upon under- and mis-informed healthy consumers, whose self-interest clouds their judgment, by selling them bunk insurance that they won’t find out is garbage until they get sick and are denied coverage. To the extent it causes premiums to rise for the sick, well (a) they deserve it and (b) we want them to die off anyway.”
Ah, junk insurance courtesy of the Trump administration.
If you want to lower the cost of health insurance and give people more options and more freedom, it’s the way to go. I heard from the administration that they like it quite a bit. They’re very supportive of it.”
Yeah Senator…give people the freedom to die…no wait, they wont have a choice. They’ll just die
Just to be clear, this is a horrible idea and we absolutely shouldn’t do it, but the path to logic and consistency for the Republican “buy your own damn health care” plan, is to repeal the EMTALA law.
This is what requires the emergency room to examine and stabilize you, regardless of ability to pay. It would put hospital administrators on the hook whose costs to eat and who to leave bleeding out in the lobby. It would put uninsured people on notice that they’ll just be allowed to die if anything ever happens. It might change behavior and might motivate people to buy the insurance they don’t feel is a good value. Or not. But it would at least be consistent with the cruelty Republicans regularly want to inflict.
There is actual history on how and why these plans do not work. Every division of insurance has archives on the failure of these plans. Simple to check them out so we do not make the same blunder that got us into the bind in the first place.
More like the Trump University, steaks etc. of health insurance.
One of the purposes of the ACA was having national standards of what a health insurance policy was. Not a bunch of plans that barely covered essential care.
Barosso’s idea of freedom “It lets people buy what works for them and their families—what they want, not what the government wants them to have.”
Actually costs the rest of us and impedes freedom.
Conservatives used to talk a good game about standards, usually focused on morality. Now that’s even thrown out the window.
Vote. Them. Out. Next November. These are cold-blooded criminals, who are more interested in enriching themselves and their corporate masters than they are in representing the citizens of their districts/states. Stop hitting yourself!
I honestly have no idea who is worse. Is it the true imbeciles, the ones who have no earthly idea what insurance is and how it works and yet insist on regulating it because they genuinely believe the invisible hand free market fairies will make it all work out great? Or is it the ones who know exactly how insurance works and are deliberately doing shit like this to blow up Obamacare and completely wreck the individual market for non-rich people, because, although the insurers don’t want it, the providers don’t want it and employers don’t want it, a handful of extremist John Bircher billionaires do? I do know, that the oligarchs pushing it are the worst of all of them, of course.
The thought occurred to me that anyone who purchases one of these junk plans would be forced to have a 6 or 12 month waiting period between application and start of benefits if they want to switch to real health insurance. That would put people in the position of dealing with the real consequences of their decisions.
I wonder if the Republicans (and more than a few Democrats) have considered that the most effective way to lower the cost of health insurance is to lower the cost of healthcare. Perhaps starting with addressing pharmaceutical costs in a serious way - let Medicare & Medicaid negotiate prices, and improving the transparency among drug makers, PBMs, insurance companies, and provider entities.
They just keep slinging their shit at us, every day. Is it illegal for us citizens to throw poo at the President? If not (or even if it is), that needs to become a daily thing that happens to Trump, Ryan and McConnell until they can’t step foot in public without being covered.
“It lets people buy what works for them and their families—what they want, not what the government wants them to have.”
Well, then! Does this statement mean that these Republicans will be absolutely cool with insurance coverage of reproductive services?
I didn’t think so either.
I didn’t think I’d ever be so glad to be getting close to the point where I’d be on Medicare. Would be just my luck, though, that Trump will find a way to shit all over that before he leaves office, too.
What’s next, health ins that only registered rethugs and card carrying, xtians can buy into. This is just a stealth way of returning to health ins business as usu