People with pre-existing conditions are the problem?

[left-of-center2012]

Ron Johnson (R-WI) on today’s Meet the Press said ‘those folks’ should be put into a high risk pool and pay what it takes for them to get health coverage,
so ‘the rest of us’ can get lower health care premiums.

Remember when the GOP said Obamacare would have ‘death panels’?

Seems the GOP have adopted that idea.

[elehhhhna]

1. People are the problem.

Fixed it.






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[jehop61]

2. Good thing

he wasn't one of those shot last week. Rep. Scalia's was and now has a preexisting condition. Make him pay!

[customerserviceguy]

3. There's only three choices here

The sickest among us are only going to be cared for by premiums or taxes, or not cared for at all, which is the unacceptable choice.

Paying for their care with premiums lets the rich off the hook, and passes the cost on to the middle class, and poorer people, to the extent that they suffer from high deductibles, high co-pays, and lousy choices, even with a subsidy.

Tax supported care of the people who use the most medical resources means that our progressive income tax structure pays the majority of those bills. I don't think that's a bad idea, I just think that the GOP cannot wrap its heads around how to do it right.

[mwooldri]

4. Everyone belongs in the "high risk pool".

At some point, one will die. It's inevitable. What no one knows is how much money one needs to spend to delay the inevitable.

It makes more sense to me to put everyone in this "high risk pool" from Day 0 and everyone pays in.

Let's give this high risk pool a name that everyone can get behind. I suggest "Medicare for all".

[LeftishBrit]

5. What a horrible individual

Who voted for him??? When they could have had Russ Feingold?????