BR_Parkway
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:20 PM
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Dean says Obama plan will open Medicaid to all along with other |
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private insurance on Chris Mathews earlier - anyone know where the details of this are?
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eleny
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:22 PM
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I was a state employee where we didn't contribute to Social Security or Medicare. I'd choose Medicare and pay a premium. I bet it would be less than my current BCBS Anthem PPO premium through my retirement plan.
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:24 PM
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Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 07:25 PM by liberalmuse
It would be really nice if he were HHS Secretary. He successfully reformed health care in Vermont. He sure as hell knows what he is talking about now. Why not?
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:30 PM
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3. All they need to do is prevent private insurance companies from refusing based on pre-existing |
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conditions and I'll be happy.
Even if the private insurance companies are allowed to increase their premiums 25% to compensate, I'll still end up saving money over my current health care plan.
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:35 PM
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6. If you do this, how will the private insurance companies make money? |
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They can't of course, that's why.
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4lbs
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:47 PM
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9. I figured I've paid about $20000 in health insurance premiums over the past 5 years. |
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Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 07:48 PM by 4lbs
I've visited the doctor only a handful of times and had to take medication just once for several weeks.
That's hardly $20K worth of medical care for me.
If I was able to go private insurance and even with their 25% increase in premiums to compensate, my cost over that 5 years would have been halved.
Hmmm... how could I have "stimulated" the economy with a few extra thousand dollars each year...
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:54 PM
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10. Of course. Thank you. That's the whole point. |
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Think of the stimulus to the business community if health care were to be lifted from their shoulders? They know it, too...they see what's going on with their biggest competitors, which happen to be the rest of the industrialized nations of the entire world...dear god...
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:33 PM
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4. He really said "medicare" not "medicaid." People WANT medicare. |
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Since medicaid is for the poor, it is not something the nonpoor wish to aspire to. However, they have seen their health care assurance disappear with their jobs, either slowly through a steady decline in benefits or through outright loss of the job itself. I know people in their 40s and 50s who say they wish they could get Medicare. No wonder.
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:33 PM
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5. medicaid is national health care that just needs expanded... |
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to every one else.
Get that and in time it will evolve into a proper NHS.
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Tue Feb-24-09 07:38 PM
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8. This is the one hope I probably have of getting back to a normal, semi-healthy life |
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And there's a lot of us in this situation Mr. President. Please make this happen.
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