Credit:Linda Linko
Last week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the new Republican health plan would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 24 million people within a decade, mostly because changes in regulations, subsidies and Medicaid coverage would make insurance too expensive for them.
Republican leaders seem unfazed by this, perhaps because, in their minds, deciding not to have health care because it’s too expensive is an exercise of individual free will. As Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, put it: “Americans have choices. And they’ve got to make a choice. And so maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love, and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.”
There is an appealing logic to such thinking. The idea is that buying health care is like buying anything else. The United States is home to […]
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From the article: “confusing plans, exorbitant premiums and deductibles, exclusive networks, mysterious tests, outrageous drug prices.”
This describes the current conditions under Obamacare.
The only solution is something like Medicare for all citizens.
You can get a wellness approach in America, but not from your MD. Too much of “modern medicine” is toxic and dangerous.
My best friend’s son was in England a few years ago. While he was there, he had a collapsed lung. He was checked into a hospital and the problem was repaired in a few days. When he went to ask how much he needed to pay, they said: “oh, nothing, the government takes care of all that, even though he was an American citizen. Too bad we don’t have a sophisticated health care system like theirs. We could, if we voted the right caring people into office.