Healthcare

[The Texan]

My wife and daughter's premiums DOUBLED!!!! Effing Obamacare(excuse my language). from $636.00 a month, to $1,252.00!!!

This is Bu******!!!

[Meemur]

to $1,252.00!!!

If $15,024.00 is more than 8% of your income ($1252,00 x 12), you don't have to pay it.

[4Him]

There is so much going on in the medical care field that we don't know about.

I went back and found the Act that started sending the medical cost out of sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerge...tive_Labor_Act

When the government decided to mandate hospitals (private business) had to provide care whether you could pay or not it was the first step into rising health cost and the morass we have now.

I did some investigating a year or so ago when a series of tests I had one year cost $580 at a private lab, then the following year the lab had been bought out by a nearby hospital and that year the same identical series of test cost $5800 a year later.

What I found out is that hospitals are ,by law allowed to charge different prices than independent labs. That is why everything has codes allotted to it. One code for aspirin in a hospital, different code for a clinic.

Every hospital I have seen around here has been building wings, nursing schools, cancer centers, heart treatment centers etc. Because most of them operate as non-profit today and they have to do something with the excess money . So they build buildings. I don't know one hospital around here that hasn't had construction going on continuously for the last 5 years.

The government caused the rising health care costs in 1986 which they then had to try to remedy with Obamacare in 2009. The gov. just needs to butt out. They never fix anything only make it worse.

If they really wanted to fix health care all they have to do on day 1 is remove all the mandates including the one from 1986. Allow people to buy insurance wherever they want then get out of the way.

[TonyM]

GOP Eyes Lightning Strike on Obamacare to Kick Off Trump Era


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...-off-trump-era


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Trump's pick for Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services expects Medicare phaseout to come next summer
http://bit.ly/2fMEkqo

[TonyM]

The father of the anti-vaccine movement met w/ Trump, found him "open-minded on this issue”

https://t.co/BdGh6ULk73

[Pastor Guest]

The father of the anti-vaccine movement met w/ Trump, found him "open-minded on this issue”

https://t.co/BdGh6ULk73

Watch "Vaxxed".

[TonyM]

Republican voters' support for repealing Obamacare is declining

http://www.businessinsider.com/repub...lining-2016-12

[TonyM]

Analysis: GOP vexed by factions on replacing health law


WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are united on repealing President
Barack Obama's health care law, but ideologically and practically
speaking, they're in different camps over replacing it. Getting the
factions together won't be easy.

Some Republicans would revise and rebrand "Obamacare," junking
unpopular provisions like its requirement that most Americans carry
health insurance, while preserving more popular provisions. Others would
rip up the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, and not replace it.

President-elect Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders
will have to unite the groups on complicated changes affecting the
financial and physical well-being of millions of people. For some
constituents in fragile health, it's literally a life-and-death debate.

Republicans have "a really narrow path," says Grace-Marie Turner of
the Galen Institute, a free-market health care research organization.
"They've got to deal with the politics of this, they've got to make sure
they come up with good policy, and they also have process challenges."


https://apnews.com/b8c79e0a5dc945019...ing-health-law

[Pastor Guest]

Why replace it? Just scrap it and when the dust settles we'll have a better system because of free market forces.

After all, the quality of healthcare has been inversely proportional to the level of government involvement.

[doat]

Price control needed and eliminate all the middlemen that get a piece of the pie. Allow the insurance industry to be more competitive.