Health Care Will Be Like Cable TV. Higher Prices For Each New Coverage. Some Diseases Not Covered

[TheMastersNemesis]

When you carry out the logic of the GOP bill it will hurt everyone who has insurance. Even people now who believe they are safely insured will become grossly under insure. They will also lose guaranteed health care. Insurance plan will turn into ALA CARTE plans where you have to pick and choose.

Employers will also face picking coverage packages. Workers will have to get a dossier of employers' plans and what they cover before they take the job. What if their plan does not cover cancer, heart disease, neurological disease, hospital care.

Look at it like cable with multiple plans. There will be premium coverages that only the rich can afford. There will be a list of diseases that will be covered for extras money. There may be separate plans for emergency room or hospitalization or specialist care.

[Hoyt]

1. Totally agree. Health Insurance a la carte will increase rates for all health insurance.

You can't even blame the health insurers for that.

Not only that, pick the wrong menu of items and taxpayers will either have to handle the mistakes or let people die in the street.

This is, honest to gawd, the most ignorant thing white wingers have come up with yet on health care. Worse than putting Duck Tape on a big dam leak.

[hunter]

2. I don't watch TV. Not cable, not satellite, not broadcast.

The "tiers" of service are meaningless to me.

Because of preexisting conditions my wife and I have experienced times of uninsurability, once while my wife was very seriously ill. We ended up running a $2000+ a month Cobra plan to the bitter end and then my wife spent a few weeks on the waiting list for our state's high risk insurance pool, as huge medical bills we had no means of paying piled up . That was truly terrifying. I'm absolutely certain people have died in similar circumstances. My wife recovered, but our finances never have.

Nobody dies if the cable television is cut off. People are dying every day in the U.S.A. because we have the worst medical care of any "first world" nation.

Even affluent people who believe they have good insurance will soon discover how crappy it is when challenged by a very serious illness or accident. Even people with platinum insurance plans and such wealth they can write hundred thousand dollar checks without flinching often get crappy, inappropriate, and sometimes deadly medical care in the U.S.A..

So no, it's not like cable television at all. We live in a land where grifters prey on the sick and the injured, wealthy or poor, a land where conscientious medical providers often burn out because they are denied the resources to properly care for their patients by no-nothing MBA's and superstitious ignoramuses who believe all illnesses and accidents are some kind of punishment from their disgusting imaginary gods, gods who reflect the emptiness in their own hearts and minds.