Tony_FLADEM
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Sat Sep-05-09 09:59 PM
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I figured out how to make everyone happy regarding the public option |
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Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 10:00 PM by Tony_FLADEM
Medicaid should be phased out and replaced with a public option. People who are currently on Medicaid would receive a subsidy and would have the choice of being in the public option or participating in the private health insurance exchange.
Those who want the public option would have it and the Health Insurance Companies would have the opportunity to have the business of millions of new customers (those being brought into the system and the people on Medicaid). This would be true competition.
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:02 PM
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1. Get youtself a few bodyguards 'cause everyone over 64 |
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:04 PM
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3. Umm, unless the OP was referring to Medicare (he said Medicaid) |
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I don't quite see your point?
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:06 PM
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Tony_FLADEM
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:07 PM
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7. I would leave Medicare alone |
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:03 PM
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2. and, how about that enormous group who do not qualitfy |
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for medicaid, but have no health care either---i.e., the 46 million????!
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:05 PM
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Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 10:07 PM by t0dd
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Tony_FLADEM
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:05 PM
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5. Those people are being brought into the system when reform is enacted. |
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They will be getting a subsidy to participate.
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:10 PM
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8. I agree we should get rid of Medicaid |
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Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 10:11 PM by t0dd
It's really simple what could be done. Allow anyone under 65 to buy into Medicare. Base premiums on monthly income. If they don't want to, they can keep the plan they already have. Provide subsidies for people that cannot afford to buy in.
You'd simultaneously insure the uninsured and save Medicare from bankruptcy.
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:42 PM
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10. I like your idea even better. |
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This would be a net gain for Medicare. The system would get an infusion of funding and the new people would use the system less than the +64 individuals already on it.
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Sat Sep-05-09 10:23 PM
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9. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. nt |
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Sun Sep-06-09 02:38 AM
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11. But you're not ruling out expansion. n/t |
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