The shouting match between left and right on health care
reform roars with the hyperventilating right calling anyone who supports
Obamacare ideologically insulting names. Just call me a pragmatist.
Earth to ideologues:
we have a problem here and whatever you call the solution, you want to unsolve
it by replacing Obamacare with nothing
that protects consumers from bad insurer practices or makes insurance affordable for the uninsured.
Leave it up to the free
market system, you say. That is returning to the same that has refused coverage of so many for pre-existing conditions and screwed its customers lucky enough to even
get coverage. There is a good reason medical bills are the leading cause of
bankruptcy. Insurance had
small print clauses capping
dollar amounts of coverage or with impossible
to pay high deductible while raking off
more than 20% for overhead.
Legalized monopolies
extended across state lines s that make
true cross state free market competition a farce, permitting price and benefit collusion. The only free market
place, ironically, is in the Obamacare exchanges
where multiple carriers compete for your business with coverage and premiums compared side by side, and all meeting at
least minimum standards. See www.connectforhealthco.com
Heads up: your neighbors know we have a problem and need, want,
and appreciate a solution as polls running in this newspaper this month have
revealed .. More support Obamacare than want to repeal it; only 41% responding
had employer provided insurance. Surveys
taken by Colorado Health Institute 2013 confirm the similar numbers: nearly 20% of your Grand County neighbors do not have health
insurance, 82% because of cost , and an additional 13% are underinsured.
Why?. In order to
make a living in this county many must have one day job and two part time table
waiting, drywall, ski instructor ,
maintenance, hamburger flipping jobs. Few
employers of such have ever provided insurance.
The newest fear hyping prediction from the right is that no young people will sign up so that only
the sick and infirm with pre-existing conditions will be left in the insurance
pool, causing Obama to self destruct. That did not happen in Massachusetts , the
only testing grounds for a plan similar to Obamacare. The young and healthy had more
sense than what the old folks comfy with insurance credit them with. It is not just the fines that got them into
the system: though losing 1% or $95 of
your income this year and much more in
future years with no insurance to show
for it, too, is no joke. What gets them
into the system is the ability to afford insurance thanks to subsidies or to
qualify for the expanded free Medicaid or for
those under 30 to get cheap catastrophic insurance.
Bike crashes and ski wipeouts happen The cheapest knee replacement, per recent Aspen
Times and Vail Daily surveys , costs $55 thousand in Denver. Either you have cash, good credit, or bankruptcy.
Young people are able to stay on their parents’ insurance
policy until they are 26, thanks to Obamacare. An unemployed 19 year old I know well tore his acl/ ncl and chipped a
bone and his parents said that since
Obamacare let him stay on his parents
insurance, the coverage saved $40
thousand out of pocket.
More at www.mufticforumblog.blogspot.com
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