[opendtv] Re: Off topic: climate change
- From: Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:06:39 -0400
I know I didn't think the health care system was perfect before Obamacare,
who did? Why did you bring that up?
Like to see that two page bill that covered pre-existing conditions. One
page would have to deal with the Republican Mandate in whatever form that
covering pre-existing conditions requires.
What does the old high risk pools and their problems have to do with
anything? My daughter tried for 9 months to get covered that way. They kept
asking for more paperwork and kept loosing it. Then Obamacare came along
and she got coverage in 10 minutes thru the New York Exchange. She loves
her insurance company. With the plan she choose she can see our family
doctor.
About medical malpractice, my oncologist goes uninsured and has a sign
prominently posted in his office to that affect.
Why do you say "politically connected" doctor? Don't think he or they were
or why are they going to prison? Faulty connection, sentencing is July
10th.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 10:56 PM, Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We will most likely have a surplus or close to it by the time Hillary
> takes office. 2% less white voters each two year cycle. Looks like the Dems
> will control the White House for at least a generation or until the
> collective ultra Right head explodes.
>
> Obamacare allowed my daughter to get insurance with a pre-existing
> condition, NOT just another transfer scheme, it is saving lives already. It
> is allowing my other daughter to look for a better job, something she was
> not willing to do since her current low paying job has decent health
> insurance included. Now she can be assured of insurance. This attribute
> alone is a big deal for our economy IMO. I have known lots of people stuck
> in jobs for health insurance reasons or working a job JUST for the health
> insurance. A friend who worked at a nursery school because by law they had
> to offer health insurance, the pay was incidental.
>
> Obamacare is a great Republican Idea whose time has come. I expect Vermont
> to make it a single payer system and most states to follow within 10 years.
>
>
> Nobody was claiming that the health care system was perfect before
> Obamacare.
>
> With respect to pre existing conditions, this could have been dealt with
> via a two page bill, not 381,517 words in the Obamacare law and 11,588,500
> words of current Obamacare regulations. And by the way, the pre-existing
> condition risk pools ran out of money:
>
> High-risk pools were projected to cover 375,000 people, and cost about $5
> billion between 2010 and 2013. Instead they enrolled just over 107,000
> people, but still managed to run out of money in early
> 2013<http://www.californiahealthline.org/road-to-reform/2013/are-high-risk-pools-a-preview-of-obamacares-failure>,
> when the administration was forced to halt enrollment.
>
>
> You can get coverage under the new exchange policies now, but in many
> cases these policies have large deductibles and do not cover the essential
> medications that are needed to treat chronic conditions.
>
> And the new law does nothing to curtail the biggest problems we have with
> health care:
>
> 1. Medical malpractice abuse by lawyers
> 2. Rampant corruption and mismanagement of existing programs like
> Medicare, where it is possible for a politically connected doctor to bill
> Medicare $24 million in one year...
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
> <http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/11588500-words-obamacare-regs-30x-long-law#>
>
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