emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
they still are paying a portion of their costs AND if they do get sick and hospitalized, insurance will pay 100% of the costs.... the gvt saves a bundle if they were paying the whole sum before, or the hospital doesn't have to take the LOSS if the gvt didn't pay it.The poor, if they go with a silver plan, in addition to their premium help, qualify for 'cost sharing reductions'... which reduces the deductibles and out of pocket expenses for them.Now remember, outside of doctors visits and annual physicals you will have to pay your deductible before the plan comes in...but as example, if you get really sick and you spend the $6600 max out of pocket for yourself due to this sickness, the Insurance, even a bronze plan, will come in and pay 100% of your medical bills after you have paid the $6600 of your own out of pocket...so the max you will be hit with is the $6600 for any individual family member, and 13k for your whole family if for some odd reason, you are all sick at once or hurt at one....
If someone couldn't afford the premiums for coverage so that Obamacare was passed to provide it to them, how the hell are they going to pay the $6600 or $13,000?
google it, so you can understand....
The poor, if they go with a silver plan, in addition to their premium help, qualify for 'cost sharing reductions'... which reduces the deductibles and out of pocket expenses for them.Now remember, outside of doctors visits and annual physicals you will have to pay your deductible before the plan comes in...but as example, if you get really sick and you spend the $6600 max out of pocket for yourself due to this sickness, the Insurance, even a bronze plan, will come in and pay 100% of your medical bills after you have paid the $6600 of your own out of pocket...so the max you will be hit with is the $6600 for any individual family member, and 13k for your whole family if for some odd reason, you are all sick at once or hurt at one....
If someone couldn't afford the premiums for coverage so that Obamacare was passed to provide it to them, how the hell are they going to pay the $6600 or $13,000?
google it, so you can understand....
You missed the point of the question. However, you answer proves that it's still nothing more than another handout program to a bunch of leeches. If they get subsidies to pay premiums and they get cost sharing reductions, how the hell is it any different than when they didn't have coverage and the rest of us paid for it? We're still paying just in a different way but the road ends at the same point. One group if funding something else for another group.
I'm not concerned about the portion they fund. I'm concerned about the portion someone else, including me, is forced to fund for them.
The government is saving nothing since the government has no money except what they take from those of us that actually fund it.
I'm also concerned about the price of losing liberty.
It can cost more to paint a painting yourself, but that is more valuable.
Anyone can take a print and reproduce it for cheaper, and it isn't worth as much.
This issue of only looking at covering the costs through insurance,
and not considering the value of free choice in itself as necessary for human happiness too
is disturbing!
If you need govt to regulate health care to feel secure, that's great, set it up for yourself and those who agree with that.
But if it makes other people feel insecure, and they'd rather build their own system and not have govt handle it
let other people have equal freedom to handle it that way.
I think this would be constitutional if it were free to opt into. make it work first, prove it is so effective
that people want to buy into it, and there's no issue. Start locally and grow globally.
instead of experimenting at the cost of taxpayers, and giving billions if not trillions to insurance companies in the process.