"Repeal and Replace" becomes ...

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by MrPots

How does "for the common good" translate to "self centered"?

It doesn't.

I don't know where you're coming from with that.

Obummercare?

That sure as Hell wasn't for the common good.

That was a giveaway to the Medical Care Industrial Complex.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Well I've had single payer for four and a half years ever since I went on Medicare but that doesn't stop me from wanting it expanded to cover all citizens.

But then I'm not a self centered Bourgeoisie Elitist like you and Ice are.

Just hope you are never hospitalized Tom because the hospitals can't wait to find some excuse to discharge you, cured or not, if they are only allowed to charge what Medicare says they are.

[merrylander]

I often wonder why everyone says "our drug companies"? There are maybe two max that are truly based here the rest are almost all European. The only reason they maintain a presence here is to get access to our research.

The only research they do themselves is in how to tweak a drug formula so it can be patented for another seven years (Purple pills anyone?) or to come up with another penis starch formula.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Just hope you are never hospitalized Tom because the hospitals can't wait to find some excuse to discharge you, cured or not, if they are only allowed to charge what Medicare says they are.

I spent overnight in the hospital about a year and a half ago when I had my stent put it.

Got red carpet treatment and it didn't even cost me a dime.

They didn't even ask for a deposit when I checked in.

I do have a BCBS policy that kicks in after Medicare pays their share.

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b016eb81d87cbf


Here is the reality.


Morons who gobble up fake news notwithstanding, the ACA could be defunded by a simple majority of the Senate and allowed to die on the vine, probably throwing off many Chumpsters in the process. But a replacement to the ACA is new legislation and can be filibustered. So Trump can't replace Obamacare but he can destroy it. I am not putting this past Trump, who ripped off his customers at TU.



Perhaps if some hospital CEOs kiss his ring he will let the ACA stay in certain hospitals....

[finnbow]

The nation’s hospital industry warned President-elect Trump and congressional leaders on Tuesday that repealing the Affordable Care Act could cost hospitals $165 billion by the middle of the next decade and trigger “an unprecedented public health crisis.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...cbe_story.html

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The nation’s hospital industry warned President-elect Trump and congressional leaders on Tuesday that repealing the Affordable Care Act could cost hospitals $165 billion by the middle of the next decade and trigger “an unprecedented public health crisis.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...cbe_story.html

Rice bowl protection scare tactic.

[Tom Joad]

The letter, along with a consultant’s study estimating the financial impact of undoing the Affordable Care Act,

I was a Government number cruncher for 31 years.

I can prepare you any kind of study on anything you want and make it come out anyway you want it to.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I spent overnight in the hospital about a year and a half ago when I had my stent put it.

Got red carpet treatment and it didn't even cost me a dime.

They didn't even ask for a deposit when I checked in.

I do have a BCBS policy that kicks in after Medicare pays their share.

So do we but when Medicare says "This procedure is only worth x dollars" and pays 80% of x. BCBS only pays the remaining 20% and the hospital eats the rest.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by merrylander

So do we but when Medicare says "This procedure is only worth x dollars" and pays 80% of x. BCBS only pays the remaining 20% and the hospital eats the rest.

Hospitals "eat" nothing.

That's a scam.

They grossly over inflate their initial charges.

Even after they "adjust" or "negociate" them down with your insurance company, they are still making a killing.

https://billadvocates.com/medical-billing-really-work/