Wyatt earp
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Hospitals: GOP may create 'an unprecedented public health crisis'
But the GOP is the GOP is the GOP. Their constituents are wealthy enough that they don't really care.
You know what IS causing a hospital crisis in Tenn right NOW ???????? ObamaCare. BlueCross which had 80% of the pool -- just skidaddled. Out of it. The 2 companies left are taking advantage of the survivors. Picking them off like ants. So 3 out of 6 major hospitals in Nashville are NOT on the preferred provider list for the 2 companies. I called the one hospital I LIKE that is not on either provider list.. Asked the director of patient insurance how they were gonna get paid next year.
It was a "Hell if I know" type of answer.. That's IMMINENT disaster. Folks may start dying in the streets type of disaster. Hospitals may be laying folks off or closing..
TN did not expand Medicaid. That is part of the problem. Fought it and messed up. Listening to the Republicans during their debates and then Trump, I'd probably leave the state as well. That is why the ACA is not working as plan , the states that refused to expand Medicaid and BCBS is in every state. The Pubs have no plan, and they hate that Pres. Obama got one and passed it.
I agree that the ENTIRE "uninsured" problem could have been addressed that way. But THAT has nothing to do with the IMMEDIATE crisis in Tenn. The 2 companies left in the pool have jacked rates (for me) by 70% and gone to "skinny network" plans that leave about 1/2 of health care providers in Tenn OUTSIDE the networks. Those 2 companies will NOT EVEN NEGOTIATE with providers not already in their networks.
It's a total cluster fuck NOW.. You want a crisis.. You've got it...
Who do you claim wanted a crisis?
Take a peek at Covered CA Linked Below
Covered California: Plans from the California Health Exchange
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Thank you Gov. Brown
it's $12000 a year per person for an individual health care insurance policy for a healthy person in their 50's with a $6000 out of pocket, $2000 deductible....that's what individual rate policies cost here..... if we all had to buy our own, then there would be no ''group rate'' policies through your work, which would make insurance cost prohibitive, for most of us....good , lets get back to normal and all buy buy our own insurance JimH !!
$6,000 deductable is not health care.
Again the OP is full of shit even from the huff post
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5352987