@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:Medicare is good, comprehensive care which includes not only GPs caring for your but a wide variety of specialists and even teaching hospitals if necessary.
HMOs will not allow repeated referrals if you have a difficult condition and need a second or third opinion. And then there is the inferior cosmetics and unnecessary side effects.
Blickers wrote:On the contrary, the withdrawn Republican bill was Logan's Run invitation if ever there was one.
Wait until the working poor realize that with Medicaid the only way that they can pass an inheritance on to their children is to die by age 55.
Blickers wrote:5 Million of the working poor-those making between $10K and $18K yearly-were going to be cut off from Medicaid by 2018. Completely cut off from access to modern medical care, and these are people who are currently working trying to make ends meet. Shameful.
The bill was far from ideal. But it pushed the poor away from Medicaid and towards the exchanges.
Most of the successful health systems around the world use insurance exchanges much like Obamacare, with a few key differences: all the insurance is not-for-profit, the poor get adequate help buying insurance, and there is a much harsher penalty if you refuse to buy insurance for yourself.
Pushing the poor to the exchanges could have been the first step in fixing the system.
