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Aaron Carroll: there is no difference between ObamaCare’s plan for non-seniors and Romney’s plan for Medicare.
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Aaron Carroll: there is no difference between ObamaCare’s plan for non-seniors and Romney’s plan for Medicare.
Poll results are interesting.
Carroll is right to say that it is the direction of movement that matters for senior health care and health insurance for the under-65 crowd. Medicare needs to move in the direction of private insurance: The unlimited 20% copay, limited benefits (hospital days & rehab care)and increasing premium costs of traditional Medicare are not popular with seniors. Similarly, to the extent private health insurance is being pushed into the one-size-fits-all straightjacket of tradional Medicare, it is going to get worse and costs will rise.
What is puzzling about the ACA is its proponents didn’t allow seniors to buy into private plans with no annual or lifetime lifetime limits on benefits, and hard limits on annual out-of-pocket costs. The ACA keeps seniors corraled in Medicare, and squeezes — hard. On the other hand, if supporters of traditional Medicare think it is so great, why didn’t they adopt Medicare for all — with unlimited copays and limited benefits, for everyone?
People certainly dont vote like they are weary of a strong centralized govt.
The Hennessy article was pretty decent. It’s incredible how someone could stand in front of millions of people and give a completely fabricated explanation of our healthcare system. And people buy it..
I wish the gov. would just go ahead and subsidize my purchase of a little tinfoil hat, so I can sit in front of the TV and stop trying to figure things out for myself.
Also not very different: Obamacare with a public option and Ryan-Wyden. Yet the former was demonized as a tyrannical government takeover of health care, and, while the latter is considered a brave, bold reform.