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Cattledog

(5,897 posts)
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 09:03 AM Jun 2017

Trumpcare will be cheaper...and here's how:

By giving free rein to Insurance companies with no mandates for coverage, Joe, who makes 50,000 at a medium sized biz that
doesn't offer coverage will be able to find a policy for his family of 4 for $200 a month. He's happy and thinks Trump came through for his family. But the fine print hidden in language that only a lawyer can understand reveals that ER is not covered, cancer is not covered, etc. He will be getting only the most basic of coverage.

When the day comes that he has to go to the ER and ends up with a $50,000 bill only then will he realize his mistake. (Hopefully)

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Trumpcare will be cheaper...and here's how: (Original Post) Cattledog Jun 2017 OP
What about a discount card Turbineguy Jun 2017 #1
It will be a "Gold" card! Cattledog Jun 2017 #3
I like the way you think! Turbineguy Jun 2017 #7
Nope, not exorcism. Doreen Jun 2017 #8
Trumpcare is already immensely unpopular. Adrahil Jun 2017 #2
Insurance companies exist to make a profit at your expense. gordianot Jun 2017 #4
The problem is that they will only find out one person at a time world wide wally Jun 2017 #5
Hardly... Zoonart Jun 2017 #6
I hate to have to say that is the "good news" world wide wally Jun 2017 #9
Last I read, mitch96 Jun 2017 #10
My cancer treatment came in at over 1 million dollars. Solly Mack Jun 2017 #11
So true! Cattledog Jun 2017 #12

Turbineguy

(37,206 posts)
7. I like the way you think!
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 09:50 AM
Jun 2017

Make it a Platinum and include discounts on funeral services.

Alternatively, an entrepreneurial government could establish a cremation lottery. Money raised would go to building fundy xtian churches and if you won you'd have 180 days to get sick and die or commit suicide.

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
4. Insurance companies exist to make a profit at your expense.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 09:18 AM
Jun 2017

Whoever deals with them or is responsible for regulating them will be unpopular. Somehow people are convinced insurance companies are doing them a service and are getting what they pay for more efficiently than government.

Zoonart

(11,747 posts)
6. Hardly...
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 09:41 AM
Jun 2017

The CDC tells us that 130 million Americans end up in the emergency room each year- 35.5 thousand daily .
In the first week after the ACHA becomes law approximately a quarter of a million Americans will seek emergency care. This will explode like a bomb.

mitch96

(13,816 posts)
10. Last I read,
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 10:22 AM
Jun 2017

50% of the money spent on health care is used on 5% of the people in the end of life...
You KNOW the insurance companies don't want to spent their profits on that....
Death panels anyone?
m

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
11. My cancer treatment came in at over 1 million dollars.
Wed Jun 21, 2017, 10:45 AM
Jun 2017

That's diagnosis through surgery (to include hospital stays) through treatment and the month long stay after everything else, because of the treatment almost killing me.

I know how fortunate I am (in America). But I shouldn't be the exception, I should be the rule.

A lot of people will die with an otherwise treatable cancer because of the lack of money.

No one should die because of a lack of money. That's not how a civilized society functions. That's not how decent people behave.

It's not a sign of the goodness of the American people for donation jars to be set up and a few dollars dropped in - it's a sign of how warped America is - that people are reduced to begging to get their health needs met.

Such does not reflect on how good the country is - it clearly shows how fucked up the country is.

If you drop a few bucks in but support Trump and the Republicans, then you're part of what makes America so fucking warped.

If you set up the jar because you are in need but still support Trump and the Republicans, then you are a deeply confused person who needs the kind of help you will never find in a donation jar. You have a sickness of the mind, in the way you think. You truly hate yourself, to allow yourself to be abused and blamed for what other people do to you - with their greed and callousness directed at you, you still prop them up and encourage them to abuse you some more. That's sick.







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