That's spooky. Reading common sense like the above . . . in the middle of this convoluted painful bureaucratic tangle of "competing interests".RSorak 71Westy wrote:Obama was only able to get half of his plan thru congress. For the reform to really work it needs the single payer option and we need to get private health insurances companies out of the system. Then the gov't can negotiate volume discounts and try to get health care costs under control.
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>RSorak 71Westy wrote:Obama was only able to get half of his plan thru congress. For the reform to really work it needs the single payer option and we need to get private health insurances companies out of the system. Then the gov't can negotiate volume discounts and try to get health care costs under control.
Don't misunderestimate 17 year-olds, pj. They are our future and they are generally able to work their way through the modern online world.pj wrote: Today we also learned that they are currently looking for high school kids to work on weekends in Salem to help folks fill out the paper applications they have resorted to. Just what I'd want to have happen, have some 17 year old help me decide which healthcare plan is best for me and my family.
WaterDawg wrote:ummm GULP
The cheapest plan will cost me $336 mo with no credits and for that I get to pay 100% of all costs up $3,500 and then it begins to cover 80% of the allowed billable amount. I am responsible for 100% of anything over the allowed billable amount.
In other words, if I have a procedure done and they only allow $5,000 for it, but I'm charged $8,000 I get to pay 20% of the 5k and 100% of the $3k Of course this is assuming I have already used up the $3,500
My bottom line - The Bottom Line Has No Place in the Health Care of Human BeingsLanval wrote:I have to look at the plan tonight, but I have to add my wife to the plan (we've been skating on good luck until now ~ covering only me and our son). I think the plan went up a bit, but let's face it... the insurance companies have used this shift to gouge; it's not the "new" cost of the plan. They were already paying people to take new subscribers, and coming up with new plans was a hardly a major cost. Adding new subscribers would reduce the plan cost (since that's exactly how insurance works) in every other part of the world. We just have a corrupted system run by technocrats.
BTW, before you tell me I don't know beans, I add this: I worked for Pacificare for a year to get my marriage visa (you had to have a full-time job to do it then) and I have a very much insider's view of how healthcare works. I know beans. If by "beans" you mean "how healthcare works".
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Obamas ratings have been less than stellar. He's as close to a socialist as one could get without setting foot on a socialist countries soil. The actual unemployment ratings are grossly skewed, stock market is artificially inflated, gas prices are a result of Bush's administration given his administration set the way for all the fracking of oil that has put us in the lead as #1 producer of both natural gas and oil ( I didn't vote for him). The dollar is grossly overinflated given this administration has been printing bills by the trillions...most of which are unaccounted for.Bleyseng wrote:"The Affordable Care Act tried to allow existing health plans to continue under a complicated process called "grandfathering," which basically said insurance companies could keep selling plans if they followed certain rules.
The problem for insurers was that the Obamacare rules were strict. If the plans deviated even a little, they would lose their grandfathered status. In practice, that meant insurers canceled plans that didn’t meet new standards."
Yes, some people had to change plans but that's because the plans didn't meet the new ACA standards. Trying to standardize all the health plans to some new standard was one of the goals of the ACA to eliminate some of the health insurance mess out there.
Most of all, the Washington Post credits Obama’s improved numbers to the economy: The so-called “recovery” finally seems to be trickling down from Wall Street to Main Street:
And although Obama’s ratings on the economy overlap with his overall rating (for obvious reasons), that is even more the case now. In December, 81 percent of those who approved of the president on the economy approved of him overall. Today, those two are even more closely tied, with 91 percent of those who support his economic record approving of him in general.
This is the second poll this year to show swiftly rising approval ratings for Obama. In January, Addicting Info reported on a poll with similar numbers from Gallup:
The President’s actions on immigration, climate change, Cuba, and community college, coupled with a falling unemployment rate, low gas prices, and high stock markets have greatly contributed to these record high approval ratings. Americans see this and for the first time since the Great Recession came down upon us, they are more optimistic than not with how the economy is going.