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No it does not. If the healthier have insurance and pay more than their fair share to subsidize other people it reduces the price-tag - but not the underlying cost of care - for those people being subsidized. There is also a relatively small effect of spreading out administrative costs over a larger base. Having healthy people go to the doctor doesn't magically make it cost less to send a sick person there, but if you force healthy people to buy insurance and then force insurers to charge them more than it costs while at the same time forcing them to charge sicker people less, that lowers premiums for the sicker people but it does nothing at all to reduce actual medical expenditures.
It's redistribution through an indirect form of taxation, not cost savings.
My husband's company has a multi-tiered premium system. One price for individual coverage; another price for a couple; another price for a couple plus kids, same premium no matter how many; another price for an individual plus kids. Kids are pretty cheap to insure. It's not taxation by any stretch of the imagination.
My husband's company has a multi-tiered premium system. One price for individual coverage; another price for a couple; another price for a couple plus kids, same premium no matter how many; another price for an individual plus kids. Kids are pretty cheap to insure. It's not taxation by any stretch of the imagination.
If forced by the government rather than the voluntary action of your employer, it is a form of taxation or, if you prefer, redistributive social policy.
Well we could get rid of Medicare, and then we could let the private market take care of the over 65 crowd. I'm sure it would be cheaper.
I think getting rid of Medicare would be a game changer. The only issue I have with it is I want the money I've put toward it back. If the older voters are so against government healthcare, let's start by ending Medicare. Put everyone on the same playing field.
I'm fine with it forcing insurance for pre-existing conditions ONLY to people who were receiving medical care for that condition or was under the supervision of a doctor for that particular condition.
Someone who ignored the condition for a few years should not automatically get insurance just because the law says so.
I really like the part that caused my Medicare to go up and consequently my Social Security takehome to go down. I didn't need that $49 anyway.
Wow, you take SS? And yet all you southerners hated FDR. You should return every check you get you ingrate.
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