Lets be clear these types of cheap, very very deductible plans that cover almost nothing plans only drive up the cost of healthcare.
It’s believed to be the first state to take formal steps without prior federal approval for creating policies that do not comply with the Obama-era health care law.
Dear AP, the ACA is not merely an “Obama-era” health care law; it remains the law of the land until it is ever repealed.
Three words that do not fit the current stereotype for Idaho: careful, creative and innovative.
Just so we’re all on the same page, these are the 10 Essential Benefits that are mandatory in all policies thanks to the law that was too impure to motivate the purity ponies to defend in 2010:
Ambulatory patient services (outpatient services)
Emergency services
Hospitalization
Maternity and newborn care
Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
Prescription drugs
Rehabilitative and habilitative services (those that help patients acquire, maintain, or improve skills necessary for daily functioning) and devices
Laboratory services
Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
Not, “abortion, slut pills for slutty slut whores who have sex out of wedlock, sex change operations, and free heroin for school kid” as Fox News viewers seem to believe.
Basically, these are plans designed for young white males who do not understand what crappy “insurance” this is.
Discriminates against women, elder folks, even race-related diseases such as sickle cell anemia.
might as well stack up your premium checks and light them on fire, gonna pay premiums and the health care providers both.
Idaho might prove to be the health insurance equivalent of Kansas’ tax cuts
beautiful place, but glad I don’t live there
A One Million Dollar cap?
Any serious injury or aliment will eat through that in a month.
And is there anything in this proposal that would require Idaho Hospitals to accept this crappy insurance? Because when that cap is hit, who is going to be stuck with the bill?
The Hospitals. And then the Taxpayers. And then cost sharing with other Insured.