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Generally...over 8 years (the time frame of the post I was replying to), and the word generally also included because...obviously....Trump got the last laugh.
The cost of my "plan" tripled and the deductibles more than doubled. My out of pocket expenses have soared due to Obamacare. My company had to switch providers and my doctor was not a participant so I had to switch both plan and doctor as did most of my colleagues, friends, family members and associates.
Obama LIED. He also must have hated America, because you don't want to Fundamentally Transform something you like, do you? Hillary would have been even worse. The country, and our leadership is much better under Trump.
You obviously have not been paying any attention to how this system works
The Supreme Court screwed up any chance of have a fair, functioning insurance system when they allowed states to opt out of the Medicare provision and just let insurance companies work out a plan for low income people that the states didn’t really set decent guidelines for
The states that opten INTO Medicare for the working poor and middle income insured have people who basically are pretty satisfied
The states that DIDN’T opt into Medicare (like TX my home state) have crappy ACA insurance for lower income earners because the state’s insurance board let the insurance companies basically set their own rules and prices...
Who do you think the insurance companies are looking out for first, last, and foremost???
IF all states had participated the operating system would have been more inclusive and would have had many fewer people choosing to opt out
It would have forced insurance companies to rein in their prices
There is no rule that FORCES any physician to participate in an insurance plan
That really would be socialized medicine
So if you want to be able to FORCE your doctor to treat people in any insurance plan then you better wish for socialized medicine to take over
Currently and even BEFORE the ACA was passed into operation any medical practice can opt not to take/partici[ate with certain insurance providers or the Medicare program or the Medicaid program
You obviously have not been paying any attention to how this system works
The Supreme Court screwed up any chance of have a fair, functioning insurance system when they allowed states to opt out of the Medicare provision and just let insurance companies work out a plan for low income people that the states didn’t really set decent guidelines for The states that opten INTO Medicare for the working poor and middle income insured have people who basically are pretty satisfied
1. Medicare isn’t for the working poor.
2. How satisfied though are the people who are ‘paying the freight’ for those people. Of course you wouldn’t mention those people because you don’t care if they have to pay more.
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The states that DIDN’T opt into Medicare (like TX my home state) have crappy ACA insurance for lower income earners because the state’s insurance board let the insurance companies basically set their own rules and prices...
Who do you think the insurance companies are looking out for first, last, and foremost???
States don’t have the option of opting in or out of Medicare.
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IF all states had participated the operating system would have been more inclusive and would have had many friends fewer people choosing to opt out
It would have forced insurance companies to rein in their prices
There is no rule that FORCES any physician to participate in an insurance plan
That really would be socialized medicine
So if you want to be able to FORCE your doctor to treat people in any insurance plan then you better wish for socialized medicine to take over
Currently and even BEFORE the ACA was passed into operation any medical practice can opt not to take/partici[ate with certain insurance providers or the Medicare program or the Medicaid program
And you know full well that Pilot has a point.
If the ACA had never been enacted, it’s unlikely that his premiums...and those of many others (including moi)...would have increased as much, and we wouldn’t have been forced to essentially fork over money for things that are physiologically impossible.
Dr. Gruber admitted, in a speech he gave at the University of Rhode Island, that the point was increasing the number of people covered, not cost containment.
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