Obamacare forces all Americans to either have insurance through their employer, through a spouse/parent, or to buy it on their own.
If the GOP kills this, 30 million or more Americans may lose their health insurance VERY quickly.
What's the easiest solution to such a disaster?
Public Insurance Option.
The USA simply and quickly creates a Federal health insurance program that can be bought into, or they expand Medicare to include a price sliding scale based on income and age.
The for-profit insurance companies will handle all employer-based insurance, and the government will handle everyone else.
Its not "Medicare-for-All", and maybe just maybe the fact that its not-for-profit will make it cheap enough for folks currently on subsidies, to afford.
What say you?
Edit:
I just sent the following emails to my Senators and Congresswoman:
"Dear XXXXXXXX, we all know the GOP plans to repeal the ACA/Obamacare. Most think this will cause insurers to drop coverage for tens of millions, causing a massing healthcare disaster. And then Trump will be forced to act, or certainly lose the Senate in 2018 and possibly re-election in 2020.
This might give us the perfect oppurtunity to bring back the Public Option. Absent private insurers wanting to cover individuals, the Feds could step in by expanding Medicare to include folks who pay monthly premiums, maybe pro-rated by age and income. Or Feds could just make a new plan, called "Americare", or whatever. Point is, private insurance would cover employer plans, Medicare would handle the elderly, Medicare would cover the poor, and "Americare" would cover everyone else, with a cheap non-profit plan.
Would the GOP be onboard? Nope. But Trump just might be. In fact, Trump might even accept it as an alternative to the ACA and its mandate, as part of a repeal of the ACA.
Repealing the ACA and getting a Public Option in exchange, sounds like a good deal. Please consider my idea.
Thanks.
-FRGR%G%$T%$T$%
If the GOP kills this, 30 million or more Americans may lose their health insurance VERY quickly.
What's the easiest solution to such a disaster?
Public Insurance Option.
The USA simply and quickly creates a Federal health insurance program that can be bought into, or they expand Medicare to include a price sliding scale based on income and age.
The for-profit insurance companies will handle all employer-based insurance, and the government will handle everyone else.
Its not "Medicare-for-All", and maybe just maybe the fact that its not-for-profit will make it cheap enough for folks currently on subsidies, to afford.
What say you?
Edit:
I just sent the following emails to my Senators and Congresswoman:
"Dear XXXXXXXX, we all know the GOP plans to repeal the ACA/Obamacare. Most think this will cause insurers to drop coverage for tens of millions, causing a massing healthcare disaster. And then Trump will be forced to act, or certainly lose the Senate in 2018 and possibly re-election in 2020.
This might give us the perfect oppurtunity to bring back the Public Option. Absent private insurers wanting to cover individuals, the Feds could step in by expanding Medicare to include folks who pay monthly premiums, maybe pro-rated by age and income. Or Feds could just make a new plan, called "Americare", or whatever. Point is, private insurance would cover employer plans, Medicare would handle the elderly, Medicare would cover the poor, and "Americare" would cover everyone else, with a cheap non-profit plan.
Would the GOP be onboard? Nope. But Trump just might be. In fact, Trump might even accept it as an alternative to the ACA and its mandate, as part of a repeal of the ACA.
Repealing the ACA and getting a Public Option in exchange, sounds like a good deal. Please consider my idea.
Thanks.
-FRGR%G%$T%$T$%
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