Great flowchart on where the current healthcare reform model will take us

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Not horrendous. Not my ideal either.

on edit: jeez, I can't embed PNG images here?

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Being dropped by one's parent insurance company.

we're talking a lot about subsidizing insurance premiums. Why not call it a tax? Tax everybody. If you pay private insurance you offset the tax at the end of the year by the amount of your private insurance premiums. That encourages insurance companies to have competitive premiums if all things considered the government cost of health care is less than private care for primary healthcare.

OR in addition to helping the poorest people pay their PREMIUM (god that riles me), ensure that the premiums themselves are level for anyone who is not being subsidized. The great absence of knowledge on this part (and it's a pretty big part) means I don't think we've thought it through all the way or if we have our heads are tit deep in the sand.

Wow. Only 3.5% of people will be covered by the public option. Why is everyone having orgasms over it again?

it routes you either into subsidized health care (either a public option, or something else) or unsubsidized health care (public option of some other plan).

There will still be uninsured with the mandates

is where they are *intended* to be routed.

But I don't think I've disagreed with anything you've written yet.

You might as well tax the air I breathe.

Complementary when you pay a mandated premium.

NO. They're taxing the body you breathe air with.

Don't like auto liability insurance? Don't drive. Don't like the body tax? Die.

but a good post either way.

1. Negotiate your costs with pharma.
2. Demand cost reform in the private sector
3. Tax EVERYONE.
4. Allow a deduction for having private health insurance and/or write your total private premiums paid off against your public option taxes collected.
5. If you change insurance status change your deduction.
6. Guaranty coverage on a longer COBRA period or else allow COBRA on a shorter employment period (say 6+ months).

Make it work. Guaranty level premiums. Guaranty cost controls. Make the public option a real option. Bring the health insurance industry to its knees. It does not have a "right to exist" that supercedes the rights of humans to exist.

Where is the box for the uninsured? Are they invisible? Unreal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGKkPEvD2OM


Ted Kennedy saw the problem then.

Three levels of the insured.
1. Medicare/Medicaid (Apx 75 million)
2. Employer Offered (Apx 125 million)
3. Uninsured (Apx 100 Million)

How can you not get that, without trying to not get it?

after reform. But hey, who's counting them. They are as good as dead anyway.

for profit companies.