Even if you have health insurance, it might be cheaper to pretend to be uninsured and pay cash instead.
Even if you have health insurance, it might be cheaper to pretend to be uninsured and pay cash instead.
This article points out the one fact that might actually be a benefit of Obamacare: The law is so screwed up that it is forcing many people out of their health insurance, where they might discover that by negotiating directly with doctors and hospitals. And that negotiation, more than any thing else — including every regulatory scheme proposed by any politician from the left or the right — will really lower the cost for healthcare.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Even if you have health insurance, it might be cheaper to pretend to be uninsured and pay cash instead.
This article points out the one fact that might actually be a benefit of Obamacare: The law is so screwed up that it is forcing many people out of their health insurance, where they might discover that by negotiating directly with doctors and hospitals. And that negotiation, more than any thing else — including every regulatory scheme proposed by any politician from the left or the right — will really lower the cost for healthcare.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
What is so ironic is the insurance industry has been a major proponent of Obamacare. Did they not realize its unintended consequences affecting insurance directly or were they just seeing the individual mandate as manna from Obama? Either way, I love the idea of fee for service and removing the middle man from the purchase of basic preventative healthcare.
They are making a lot of money. People earning up to $45k get subsidies from the government. Subsidies which go directly to insurance companies. Despite Obama’s anti-insurance company rhetoric, he has a mutually beneficial relationship with them because they are major donors.
With the out of pocket cap so high, most people will never see their insurer pay out in any given year. A person with a bronze plan will spend $9k before insurance picks up the cost of treatment.
The insurance company’s are colluding with the administration / government. Who is driving it, the company’s or the government?
You tell me, they are one and the same walking this thing right past our own eyes, in broad day light.
The Obama administration and the insurance companies have different goals and motivations. While Obama has been working with insurance companies behind the scenes to implement and push propaganda in favor of Obamacare, he uses his rhetoric to demonize the insurance companies. Obama will eventually turn on them in actions as well as rhetoric because his goal is the destruction of the health insurance industry. He is counting on people hating them so much that he can get away with any actions against them. This hinges on people blaming insurance companies more than the government for what happens under the new system.
Obama’s stated goal is single payer healthcare…period. Everything else is just incremental steps towards this goal. How the big players in the insurance industry don’t see this amazes me.
Eugene McCarthy once said that the two primary motivating factors for corporations were fear and greed. The behavior of the insurance industry vividly supports his point.