emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
^ note to francoHFWOur "system'' was such a mess SOMETHING had to be done. This GOP type ACA is a start, works already. BREAKING: This is how much our care actually costs! Now Trump will tinker- this will be tinkered with forever.Then you pay for this plan TimmyProve it. Post proof that you know my family's bill better than me. Do it.I just confirmed with my mother, they paid "Roughly 95%", the company was Aetna. The only things they didn't cover amounted to a few thousand, but they did cover surgeries amounting to millions of dollars, like open heart surgery. My youngest brothers, who are twins, were "Million dollar babies".
So your pre Obamacare plan was over $1000. Not $150.
My family paid $150 per month. You will either prove your statement or you'll go back to the Flame Zone where brain dead Liberals belong.
You paid $150, but that's not the COST of the plan. The employer through in another $1000.
But you come here and blame the ACA when premiums were already too high for an average family .
If just you and others who support it create your own health plan cooperatives, you are free to lobby and negotiate whatever discount rates you want to offer your own members.
I bet you can get a better deal by cutting out the middleman and DIY. Obama cheated and cut several corners to ram this through federal govt where it doesn't follow but broke many rules.
If you do it through private business agreements you are free to fund under terms that your members agree to that don't have to represent nonmembers.
So do it. That's fully legal to set up your own health share or insurance plan.
No need to force anyone else to pay or join who doesn't believe in it.
Look at Doctors Without Borders,
The Nurturing Network. Americares.
(Heck, look at Habitat for Humanity and ask yourself why can't the same be done for local clinics hospitals and medical training programs. ALL developed locally by free choice to invest and own and participate, NOT forced by govt to fund and it still works.)
The business model of cost effective services for maximum investment of dollars CAN work on a *nonprofit basis* and DOES work better by free choice instead of ramming it through govt.
if the mandates had given free choice and responsibility to people and states to decide how to manage their own health care,
all the "tinkering" could be done in cohesive likeminded groups along the SAME plans for each one.
instead of competing groups fighting for two different approaches.