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In reply to the discussion: Don't be naive, the "insurance for all" bit is meant to throw cold water on upcoming protests [View all]progree
(10,900 posts)15. I think we will have an abundance of low-cost insurance plans available again
and that a lot of people will like them. They will have reasonable, even low deductibles, and reasonable copays in percentage terms...
Just like the junk insurance many people bought on the individual market before the ACA.
(Rand) Paul said his plan would legalize the sale of inexpensive insurance, adding: That means getting rid of the Obamacare mandates on what you can buy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/15/rand-paul-obamacare-bernie-sanders
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/15/rand-paul-obamacare-bernie-sanders
One of the greatest things about the ACA is that there is standardization of benefits and plans can be compared to each other when shopping. And that there isn't any "junk insurance" on the exchanges.
Whereas before, on the individual market, there was a ton of crap insurance with severe limitations on annual and life-time amounts, and very high or unlimited out of pocket maximums, and so what you had was placebo care. Something that was good if you had an ordinary illness or accident, but nothing that was going to matter if you had like a $200,000+ cancer treatment or coronary bypass etc. (So when a RWer or JPRer tells you about the cheap individual insurance plan (s)he had before the ACA, well, that's exactly what they had -- cheap "insurance" .
Also, young healthy people would generally buy the cheap policies, which would raise the cost of the more robust health policies for e.g. middle-aged and older needing serious health insurance.
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Don't be naive, the "insurance for all" bit is meant to throw cold water on upcoming protests [View all]
ecstatic
Jan 2017
OP
+1, MiniPoot just says shit no rhyme or reason UNLESS its defending Russia, there he's consistent
uponit7771
Jan 2017
#1
Yep, he's just trying to deflect some flak before performing the old switcheroo!
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2017
#30
Rule #1 for dealing with Trump: "Talk is cheap." Rule #2: "Everything he says is a lie."
dalton99a
Jan 2017
#3
Actually, we didn't. Here in TN before ACA they could (and did) deny insurance all the time.
SharonAnn
Jan 2017
#23