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Me, My Parents, my 3 children, my two grandchildren.
How much did we spend on healthcare before Obamacare?
How much do we all spend in healthcare after Obamacare?
The difference is astonishing, enough to even break us.
Anyone?
Bueller?
Bueller?
No clue what you spend on healthcare. Depends on if you were insured, your plan and your geography.
Most healthcare premiums increased about 100% between 2000-2010, before the ACA was enacted in 2010.
Most legislators agree the US healthcare model is broken.
It's been 5.5 years since the ACA became law. Since then, not a single proposed bill to replace the ACA has gained any traction in Congress.
The rest of the developed world has Universal Healthcare with similar or better outcomes at less cost. No two countries do Universal Healthcare the same. Very few countries have a Single Payer System. Most are a blend of public and private options. Other governments are substantially more engaged in price controls than the US.
Congress does not bite the wallets that feed them. Big pharm, the American Hospitall Association, medical devise manufacturers and insurers have powerful lobbies at the federal and state levels to ensure their interests are put before those of the general population.
US healthcare workers, including MDs in some specialties, make more than their counterparts in the rest of the developed world, despite living in higher cost and taxed areas than the US.
Most US hospitals are private, not for profit corporations. Despite this, many make $ hundreds of millions in profit each year. They use those profits to build their brands, acquire or destroy the competition and acquire medical practices. Most US hospitals are top heavy with senior non MD management administrators.
The US people are the fattest people on earth and are substantially more vulnerable to Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and some Cancers. If the US population managed to keep their weight/ waist sizes within healthy ranges, the demand for healthcare and thus cost of healthcare and insurance premiums would dramatically decline.
Instead, it seems we want our cake and to eat it, too and then blame government because the cost to treat us is unaffordable for many. If healthcare premiums and subsidies were based on waist sizes, would it serve as adequate incentive for 70% of adults to take responsibility for their own health and be rewarded with more affordable premiums?
Last edited by middle-aged mom; 10-15-2015 at 10:19 AM..
Very few people are impacted by any of the ones in your chain e-mail link.
Incorrect. The segment of our population who is actually productive are impacted. Democrat voters? Not so much. It's all just 'gimme, gimme more' to them. /puke
Congress does not bite the wallets that feed them. Big pharm, the American Hospitall Association, medical devise manufacturers and insurers have powerful lobbies at the federal and state levels to ensure their interests are put before those of the general population.
You sound way more educated about this thing than me but you said a mouthful there. I have been one of those climate skeptics and while I might be coming around, all this talk and regulation against fossil fuel seems useless when looking at the desire to eat meat in the world. If there is a problem, it's not fossil fuels, it's agriculture but who can stand against the beef industry and congress backing them? It's probably the same like you say, congress don't care how bad it gets as long as they got their own little pockets filled with they friends in the health industry.
You sound way more educated about this thing than me but you said a mouthful there. I have been one of those climate skeptics and while I might be coming around, all this talk and regulation against fossil fuel seems useless when looking at the desire to eat meat in the world. If there is a problem, it's not fossil fuels, it agriculture but who can stand against the beef industry?
Incorrect. The segment of our population who is actually productive are impacted. Democrat voters? Not so much. It's all just 'gimme, gimme more' to them. /puke
And the dead beats who it benefits at the expense of the producers will always want more.
As I recall, Obamacare requires any Medicaid recipient to pay the money back out of their estate. So millenials won't be inheriting the homes of their parents should one of them end up in a nursing home for any length of time.
Too bad, so sad.
I can go along with that. Why should one get taxpayer paid healthcare and still keep their home? Medicaid recipients should be renters. All assets should be forfeited to go 100% on the dole.
You vote for a man who promises to tax you to death, then when you see how much more is coming out of your check, you whine?
If your parents die tomorrow, God forbid, does the government really deserve over half of what your mom or dad wanted to leave you? If you inherit your Mom's house, does the government deserve to own over half that house?
This is what DEMOCRATS{no republicans} voted for, tax.
I don't understand.
It only happens if your Mama has over 5 million. this is a sign that a lot of people do not understand the inheritance taxes, educate yourself before you vote in the GOP again.
The flat tax that the GOP wants to install will finish off the middle incomes (50K-250K) do not fall for this nonsense again get educated.
I can go along with that. Why should one get taxpayer paid healthcare and still keep their home? Medicaid recipients should be renters. All assets should be forfeited to go 100% on the dole.
That's not the way it works. The estate pays the money back after they die.
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