Tuesday: Health Plans

[plumapen]

In keeping with yesterday's 'issues' (though rather ranty) post on the economy, today let's talk about the health plans proposed by the campaigns. Health Affairs, a policy journal on the health care industry, has published two independent studies on the proposed solutions to health care and insurance, to determine what the real impact will be on

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[mauvaise_etoile]

I think health care is the issue that drives my political decisions the most at this point in my life (one of the reasons I was a Hilary supporter). As you know, we have HUGE issues with getting affordable medical coverage in my house. By myself, it wouldn't be a huge problem, but with Jim's medical problems and William's age, we have to pay through the nose. We have actually just this week switched health insurance plans. Again. This will be the fifth insurance plan (maybe sixth? I've lost count) since William was born (one of the driving factors in my not returning to work was that only I would have free health insurance - we would've paid through the roof for William and Jim again since my previous employer didn't pick up any dependent costs - a friend of mine really didn't have a choice in returning to work because she is the insurance carrier for her family - her husband owns his own business). I have had more insurance plans in the past less than two years than I have had in my entire life. I've also had two instances

[canutius]

Ayep. I pretty much agree with all of that really. As you know, that's actually quite a big factor in my decision not to return home. This was not made better by my aunt's story about falling on concrete this week. And I quote, "I was lucky to get away with scrapes, bruises and soreness. If it had been my knee or a broken bone, I would have been screwed". How screwed is that? What's the point of having the best bloody doctors in the world if no one can afford it

[plumapen]

Word.

If I remember correctly, Hillary kept attacking him on mandating it even if you already had it. Or was that the other way around (he attacking her plan on those grounds)? I can't remember.

[canutius]

Back (but calmer). God bless Chiropractors.

Ah. I'm afraid I wasn't paying too much attention to the primarys (again, I can't vote so motivation is low). It should be mandatory though and the Fed Gov. should force the insurance carriers to be sensible. They could even set up their own insurance group if they wanted. Those insurance companies who wanted to join and get the benefits of a whole lot of members could join and those who didn't could remain outside the loop. Wanna bet they'd be scrambling to join and not miss out on their piece of the pie? Oh, and I'm not saying HMO. I'm saying just normal, basic insurance so people aren't ruined because they break their arm. They can do it for companies, why not for private parties as well?