Trump lied when he said that health insurers have agreed to waive all copays for COVID-19 treatment

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Sarah Owermohle
@owermohle
I write about health care, drugs and tobacco for
@Politico

"Trump's claim tonight that health insurers "have agreed to waive all copayments for coronavirus treatments" seems to be news to them.

“For testing. Not for treatment.” a spokesperson for the major insurance lobby AHIP says."

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[Marie Marie]

1. Can that moron EVER get anything right?

Yes, I know how much he lies but sometimes I think it is because he is only ever half listening to what he is told. He's like: "Yea, yea, I know, I know - I got this. On matters like this, every word matters.

[dalton99a]

2. Stupid motherfucker didn't even know what he was saying

[elleng]

3. He doesn't know the difference, and/or that we pay for them separately.

Whoever wrote the speech messed it up.

[BigmanPigman]

4. That could cost an insured person thousands of dollars.

My last hospital stay for 4 days AFTER Bl Shield Insur paid their share...$30,000 left my bill at $4,000 (roughly$1,000 each day).

[Hoyt]

5. I'm glad he said it, because it will force him to clarify a major issue with

health coverage, particularly for something like this.

Personally, I hope trump is forced into backing legislation that government will pick up coinsurance related to C-Virus, and cover uninsured.

[leftstreet]

6. +1

His bumbling aside, I hope that's how it goes

[vapor2]

7. I do think he said that testing

AND treatment would be covered at the meeting with major insurance companies yesterday (3/10) ? I thought that is what I heard him say.

[Native]

8. And unless they've changed testing guidelines, you have to have a bunch of other tests done before

they can test you for Covid-19. They're required to rule out a bunch of other stuff, like the flu, before they're allowed to test for this. Not to mention the general cost of a trip to the ER.

[not_the_one]

9. The US has actually REFUSED to accept tests from other countries that work fine,

because we want OURS to be created and manufactured by the US private sector.

Korea can test 10,000 a day. We can't test shit.