A Winning Alternative to Obamacare
Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 6 months ago to The Gulch: General
A possible way out of the Obamacare disaster.
While we're very happy to have you in the Gulch and appreciate your wanting to fully engage, some things in the Gulch (e.g. voting, links in comments) are a privilege, not a right. To get you up to speed as quickly as possible, we've provided two options for earning these privileges.
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
Vladimir Lenin
It's the only acceptable alternative, to me. Anything that requires me to buy anything just because I'm alive and a citizen is unacceptable.
came out. The concept of paying a fraction of the cost for something changed marketplace supply and demand. People were out of touch with real costs and small business owners were bearing much of the brunt of the true cost of the procedure or drug plus some. So in prescription drugs you had HMO huge demand and individual limited demand. It will eventually tighten supply which also drives up cost. Paying $5 for a prescription robs from those who pay an inflated price to make up the difference in cost. We have always paid cash for scrips. At times even the phatmacist is shocked at that price compared to what insured are paying.
The good reason: actual insurance against rare but expensive (sometimes lifesaving) treatments (just like homeowners insurance).
The bad reason: bureaucratic overhead, prohibitions on new providers entering the market and the like have jacked up the price of a $10 service to $100, but 'insurance' will pay $90. If you don't have insurance you get stuck paying $100, but maybe they'll cut a deal and only charge you $30-$50.
The 60 vote requirement is not impossible to reach, it just seems very, very unlikely. So without one of those two events happening, ObamaCare is here to stay. Think about that when it comes time to vote and put in Senators that will vote to repeal the ACA. Then all we have to do is make sure that Hillary or some other Progressive doesn’t get in in 2016.
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