U.S. Budget - OBBB | Medicare Part D premiums set to rise

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Duke Mu said:
Medicaid, Medicare, ACA and a Public Health Option could be consolidated to one Premium Health Entity. With multiple tiers of coverage and a minimal HC coverage, a bit like auto insurance.coverage. Medicaid, Medicare, ACA would save by eliminating redundant administration costs and confusing coverage.

But that would require *thinking,* planning, and work. No chance Congress is up to it, especially the GPT cohort.
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Maybe somebody should come up with a universal Healthcare system that costs less and delivers better results with less red tape. We could call it "Medicare for All".
 
BillOfRights said:
Maybe somebody should come up with a universal Healthcare system that costs less and delivers better results with less red tape. We could call it "Medicare for All".
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In practice, Medicare is a mess: cumbersome and piecemeal... the non-seniors would hate it as the public option or universal HC paradigm. Medicare needs to be re-organized. Our subsidizing of private Medicare Advantage is the fastest rising Federal Health care expenditure. Medicare Advantage insurance companies are dropping and denying coverages (in the news re: the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthCare.

MA takes advantage of the crazy and incoherent splitting of Medicare Parts A, B, D, G. You're going to need a scorecard. Medicare Advantage plans prey on seniors confused by Medicare structure, rules, and limits.
 
Paine said:
Here’s the issue: this conversation always starts with poor people.

You say we need “some kind of ongoing eligibility requirements,” but that already exists. Have you ever been on Medicaid? Recipients are subject to regular income checks, re-enrollment processes, work requirements in some states, and mountains of paperwork that trip people up all the time. People get kicked off constantly for making a little too much one month or missing a form.

Meanwhile, no one’s making Lockheed Martin fill out quarterly means tests to keep their billions. Amazon isn’t getting its subsidies yanked because it didn’t “show effort.”

If you’re serious about waste, start at the top. It’s not the broke kid getting dental cleanings who’s bankrupting the country, it’s the rigged game where billionaires dodge taxes while everyone else fights over crumbs.

The fact that your first instinct is to scrutinize the poorest instead of the powerful gives the game away.
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Duke Mu said:
In practice, Medicare is a mess: cumbersome and piecemeal... the non-seniors would hate it as the public option or universal HC paradigm. Medicare needs to be re-organized. Our subsidizing of private Medicare Advantage is the fastest rising Federal Health care expenditure. Medicare Advantage insurance companies are dropping and denying coverages (in the news re: the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthCare.

MA takes advantage of the crazy and incoherent splitting of Medicare Parts A, B, D, G. You're going to need a scorecard. Medicare Advantage plans prey on seniors confused by Medicare structure, rules, and limits.
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Now do private insurance.


KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance | KFF KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance | KFF
 
I really wish this bill could be stopped, but as a backup, I wish I was a bankruptcy lawyer right now. Pubs have no idea what they're about to unleash.
 
BillOfRights said:
Now do private insurance.


KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance | KFF KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance | KFF
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No question that private insurance generated high costs, poor outcomes, dropped coveraged, cropped treatments, depite physician's orders. We fought BCBS for over a year and a half tryoing to continue a treatment that was working. Private insurance in the US costs 2X coverage in Europe. We don't live as long and suffer from far more chnonic disease.

We can make consolidate Medicare/Medicaid/ACA that includes a more than competitive Public Option that would challenge and outperform private insurance for those under 65. I'm conducting a mental exercise to promote a better solution that would save $$, maximize health benefits, provide tiers of choice, good value.

Today, the Instuance companies are the "DEATH PANELS."
 
Duke Mu said:
No question that private insurance generated high costs, poor outcomes, dropped coveraged, cropped treatments, depite physician's orders. We fought BCBS for over a year and a half tryoing to continue a treatment that was working. Private insurance in the US costs 2X coverage in Europe. We don't live as long and suffer from far more chnonic disease.

We can make consolidate Medicare/Medicaid/ACA that includes a more than competitive Public Option that would challenge and outperform private insurance for those under 65. I'm conducting a mental exercise to promote a better solution that would save $$, maximize health benefits, provide tiers of choice, good value.

Today, the Instuance companies are the "DEATH PANELS."
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Thanks
This post adds a lot to your last posts
Keep thinking-keep posting
 
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