Rand Paul: Insurance should be available for $1 a day

[DonViejo]

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/23/17 09:10 AM EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kent.) slammed Senate Republicans' healthcare overhaul bill on Friday, saying that it's grounded in "propping up" insurance companies.

He also called for the creation of a healthcare law that would reduce insurance costs to as little as $1 a day for at least some consumers.

"What I'd like to do is legalize inexpensive insurance, and you should be able to get insurance for $1 a day. I mean, you really should," Paul said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "The insurance companies make all the money; all of this is predicated upon still propping up the insurance companies."

Paul's comments came a day after Republican leaders in the Senate unveiled their highly anticipated plan to repeal and replace large parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Paul is one of four conservative senators to announce their opposition to the bill. Paul and the three other lawmakers largely object because they believe the Senate bill would not do enough to lower premium costs, and that it would leave much of ObamaCare in place.

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[Hoyt]

1. GOPers will make that sound good, but it really means some insurance plans will only cover Kleenex

if you have pneumonia, not the underlying disease. And you are limited to one box per year.

The problem with the 4 senators who say they won't support Senate plan is that most of them don't think the plan is "mean" enough, rather than think the plan needs to be improved to help poor people.

[leftstreet]

4. +1 His is typical Libertarian nonsense

'Well, make insurance $1 a day and everyone can afford it!'

They'd say the same about fire and police protection, highway usage, social security - make it all $1 a day! That sounds like a kindergartner's essay on how to make the world more better

[DetlefK]

2. A crappy insurance for $1 a day that doesn't cover anything.

[Trust Buster]

3. $1 dollar a day would pay for 10% of a colonoscopy. Would that make Randy an anal probe ?

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Ya get what you pay for!

What an idiot.
Back to junk insurance that won't be much better than not having it at all.
These people are despicable.

[SharonClark]

6. Rand Paul was on Morning Joe this morning

He wants no government involvement in health care and doesn't want the government to subsidize health insurance companies. Of course, he believes the "market place" will drive the cost of healthcare down to $1 if people would do a better job of shopping around. On the bill's tax cut for the rich, he kept repeating that the "rich pay the taxes so of course they would benefit from a tax cut".

Protecting the undeserving rich is very important to him, he'll cave and vote for the bill..

[ExciteBike66]

7. I propose a Republican insurance plan that will cost $0 a day!

Something about Mary:

Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.
Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Ted: I would go for the 7.
Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?
Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Ted: That - good point.
Hitchhiker: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
Ted: Why?
Hitchhiker: 'Cause you're fuckin' fired!

[nikibatts]

8. Well talk to the medical profession then and the medical schools that charge outrageous tuition and

fees which force MD's to charge ridiculous prices for a 15 minute in-and out visit to their offices. The system is bad from start to finish. The best way to meet our health needs it to have the government totally in charge of it with strict accountability from patients and practitioners. But then, that would take some honest, rationale, loyal, government and Congress to get that done.

[dalton99a]

9. Out of pocket average for an ambulance ride is $432

for people WITH commercial insurance

[DefenseLawyer]

10. Typical Ayn Rand libertarian nonsense

What he is really saying is "if you are invincible, insurance is just a scam". So you know, the invincible among us should be recognized and given proper dispensation.

[Eyeball_Kid]

11. That will pay for a blood pressure check. After that, it's an early burial.

The current GOP plan is designed to cull the herd: eliminate people who cost more to keep healthy and alive.

That's right. Eliminate people from living. That means extermination. And that's what the GOP refuses to acknowledge.

If the bill passes and Medicaid goes away, the care facility industry will collapse, more people will suffer worse and die early. And that couldn't please the GOP more.

As for Rand Paul, he's a simpleton for his dollar a day proposal. He's only causing a distraction for the mass murder that will be codified into law.

[n2doc]

12. How about we make it free?

Get rid of the insurance companies for most health care costs, Like civilized countries do?

(Yeah, I know there are costs for care in Europe, Canada and the UK......but so much less)