Healthcare & Health Insurance Catch-All | GOP seeking a plan

[farce©]

"TRUMP: I'd like to see the people get the money and let the people buy their own healthcare. It'll be unbelievable"

What does that mean? Does that mean let people buy their own health insurance? Then you are just giving people money to give to the same insurance companies that sell insurance on the marketplace, right? Or is the purpose to make sure healthy people opt out of the system?

Or does "buy their own healthcare" mean actual care, like they will use the money to pay for doctor's bills and MRIs and surgeries and chemotherapy? How far does he think $2000 (or whatever the number is) will go? What happens when their kid is diagnosed with leukemia and his response is "here's two grand, good luck".

The only way health insurance works is if everyone, including healthy young people, are covered.

 

[superrific]

This reminds me of when the GOP candidate for Senate in NV, in 2010, proposed "barter" as a substitute for Obamacare. If you couldn't afford money to pay the doctor, you could pay with a cow or potatoes. Quite possibly it remains as the single most unserious proposal from Pubs even after all this time. It was mind-boggling that anyone would suggest something like that.

 

[mynameisbond]

This reminds me of when the GOP candidate for Senate in NV, in 2010, proposed "barter" as a substitute for Obamacare. If you couldn't afford money to pay the doctor, you could pay with a cow or potatoes. Quite possibly it remains as the single most unserious proposal from Pubs even after all this time. It was mind-boggling that anyone would suggest something like that.

What he may have been referring to is that most medical providers will agree to accept a lower amount from a patient who is self-pay. It requires doing some inquiry and negotiation.
That's not to say it is an acceptable substitute for health insurance, unless you are young and healthy. So, yes, it is a terrible proposal.

 

[superrific]

What he may have been referring to is that most medical providers will agree to accept a lower amount from a patient who is self-pay. It requires doing some inquiry and negotiation.
That's not to say it is an acceptable substitute for health insurance, unless you are young and healthy. So, yes, it is a terrible proposal.

No, it was literally about paying for medical services with farm animals.

When it comes to debating health reform, Republicans have spent the better part of 2010 on the offensive. But Sue Lowden, once the front runner in Nevada's GOP Senate primary, made herself a notable exception in an April 19 interview with a local TV station. In defending a previous statement she had made suggesting that patients barter with their health care providers, Lowden noted that "in the olden days ... they would bring a chicken to the doctor" to pay for treatment. Democrats pounced on the comment, ceaselessly mocking the candidate and coining one of the more memorable taunts of the campaign season: "Chickens for checkups." Lowden ended up losing the primary to Tea Partyer Sharron Angle, who has had no shortage of foul-ups herself.

25 Crazy Moments from a Crazy Election Campaign - TIME

When it comes to debating health reform, Republicans have spent the better part of 2010 on the offensive. But Sue Lowden, once the front runner in Nevada's GOP Senate primary, made herself a notable...

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[mynameisbond]

No, it was literally about paying for medical services with farm animals.

When it comes to debating health reform, Republicans have spent the better part of 2010 on the offensive. But Sue Lowden, once the front runner in Nevada's GOP Senate primary, made herself a notable exception in an April 19 interview with a local TV station. In defending a previous statement she had made suggesting that patients barter with their health care providers, Lowden noted that "in the olden days ... they would bring a chicken to the doctor" to pay for treatment. Democrats pounced on the comment, ceaselessly mocking the candidate and coining one of the more memorable taunts of the campaign season: "Chickens for checkups." Lowden ended up losing the primary to Tea Partyer Sharron Angle, who has had no shortage of foul-ups herself.

25 Crazy Moments from a Crazy Election Campaign - TIME

When it comes to debating health reform, Republicans have spent the better part of 2010 on the offensive. But Sue Lowden, once the front runner in Nevada's GOP Senate primary, made herself a notable...

content.time.com

When they were handing out brains, she thought they said trains and said she prefers slow ones.

 

[hedge]

Also, I love every time House Republicans decry a "failure of leadership". They intentionally elected the most spineless, bitch-made Speaker of the House possible and then are upset that they have no leadership.

Upvote for "bitch-made"...

 

[Patb78]

This reminds me of when the GOP candidate for Senate in NV, in 2010, proposed "barter" as a substitute for Obamacare. If you couldn't afford money to pay the doctor, you could pay with a cow or potatoes. Quite possibly it remains as the single most unserious proposal from Pubs even after all this time. It was mind-boggling that anyone would suggest something like that.

My grandfather was a Baptist minister. During the Great Depression lots of people paid him for doing weddings and funerals with food stuffs. Don’t think that would work today in healthcare.

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

Hopefully, if an agreement can be reached, it will allow for recalculation of rates for current ACA plans and for a second "open enrollment period" for those who might want to sign up with the lower rates.

Also, I love every time House Republicans decry a "failure of leadership". They intentionally elected the most spineless, bitch-made Speaker of the House possible and then are upset that they have no leadership. These are the kinds of dumb motherfuckers who go to Burger King and get mad they can't order a Big Mac.

They be illin’