Carly Fiorina to the Rescue

[houcoogster]

Houston she has a plan. Something totally new, innovative and never tried before............."High-Risk Pools"......

Carly Fiorina's Obamacare Replacement Plan Hasn't Fared Well With House Republicans - Bloomberg Politics

 

[sman]

Houston she has a plan. Something totally new, innovative and never tried before............."High-Risk Pools"......

Carly Fiorina's Obamacare Replacement Plan Hasn't Fared Well With House Republicans - Bloomberg Politics

That would have actually been the solution prior to Obamacare. Create a national high risk pool and provide subsidies to those who can't afford it (much like the subsidies today) and leave the rest of the system alone. It would have been a lot less costly than this behemoth we now have. Again, this is for pre-ACA. The system was working for 85% of the people out there. Maybe even more. Now some of us are paying twice as much as we were before ACA reared its ugly head. Not to mention paying extra taxes as well.

As it stands now, the liberals were right, ACA is the first step to single payer. Because the way the system works today won't last.

 

[houcoogster]

That would have actually been the solution prior to Obamacare. Create a national high risk pool and provide subsidies to those who can't afford it (much like the subsidies today) and leave the rest of the system alone. It would have been a lot less costly than this behemoth we now have. Again, this is for pre-ACA. The system was working for 85% of the people out there. Maybe even more. Now some of us are paying twice as much as we were before ACA reared its ugly head. Not to mention paying extra taxes as well.

As it stands now, the liberals were right, ACA is the first step to single payer. Because the way the system works today won't last.

That's a bunch of bulloney...High Risk pools have been a dismal failure everywhere they've been tried.

The reason??? Don't get insurance now, wait till you get sick and jump into the "pool".

 

[russelltw]

The NC high risk pool ran out of money with half the expected enrollment...

 

[sman]

That's a bunch of bulloney...High Risk pools have been a dismal failure everywhere they've been tried.

The reason??? Don't get insurance now, wait till you get sick and jump into the "pool".

Create similar rules (i.e. - open enrollment period one time per year).

And it's spelled bologna.

 

[FLM2]

She was a disaster as the CEO of HP, does that qualify her to be president?

 

[AllenChicago]

Excerpt from the Carly Fiorina Article...

""A "comprehensive set of high-risk pool programs" would cost between $150 billion and $200 billion over a decade, conservative health policy experts James C. Capretta and Tom Miller estimated in a 2010 issue of National Affairs.""

But the Congressional Budget Office says...

The new 2015 CBO analysis finds that between fiscal years 2016 and 2025, spending on the law's expansion of Medicaid will cost $920 billion and insurance exchange subsidies will cost nearly $1.1 trillion. The major spending provisions, taken together, will total $1.993 trillion.
Source: CBO: Obamacare to cost $2 trillion over the next decade | WashingtonExaminer.com

Transferring the Subsidy dollars to a "comprehensive set of high-risk pool programs" for the uninsurable will cost less than is being spent now. Let everyone else go through regular underwriting, like before.

It's a better plan than the tired Republican idea of allowing Texas Jane to buy her health insurance in North Dakota.
ac

 

[GreenSky]

Why is the answer to everything have to include the government? Every government program has failed and that includes Medicare. Spending more than you take in is failure.

Even people who believe in small government believe it's the government's job to take care of others. It's the government that has cause much of the poverty and certainly hasn't solved the health insurance issue. Obamacrap simply made things more expensive and less accessible.

Being forced to pay for others is not charity, it's theft.

Rick

 

[sman]

Why is the answer to everything have to include the government? Every government program has failed and that includes Medicare. Spending more than you take in is failure.

Even people who believe in small government believe it's the government's job to take care of others. It's the government that has cause much of the poverty and certainly hasn't solved the health insurance issue. Obamacrap simply made things more expensive and less accessible.

Being forced to pay for others is not charity, it's theft.

Rick

I think we're just going on the premise that the government is already involved and will stay involved so let's get less of that.

 

[GreenSky]

I think we're just going on the premise that the government is already involved and will stay involved so let's get less of that.

Sorry. Just felt like I needed a good rant!

Rick