Health Care Costs
Hang on to your wallet. Health Insurance Companies are seeking rate increases.....big ones!! ....new customers turned out to be sicker than expected. Article
Forum Discussion
IMO health care is the providers: docs, nurses, hospitals, etc. Health insurance is another matter. Obamacare put the insurers in charge. They helped write the law allowing them to dump unprofitable plans & force all into higher deductibles, etc. The law even guarantees the insurers a profit. If they lose money the taxpayers bail them out.
I recently read where over 25% of insured are not going for medical care due to the high deductibles. So Obama's claims about more people being insured must be offset by this reality.
I wish we had gone to a single payer system & eliminated the insurers. It would lower providers costs a lot. The funding for it would have to designed. Every other western democracy has it and all of them have much lower costs with similar or better results.
I recently read where over 25% of insured are not going for medical care due to the high deductibles. So Obama's claims about more people being insured must be offset by this reality.
I wish we had gone to a single payer system & eliminated the insurers. It would lower providers costs a lot. The funding for it would have to designed. Every other western democracy has it and all of them have much lower costs with similar or better results.
