A cruel and costly aspect of Obamacare and concurrently a gift of billions annually to the health insurance companies by Congress and the White House, is allowing insurance companies to issue policies with high deductibles, $2500 or $5000, ostensibly “to lower your monthly payments .” (lower than what?). The direct consequence is that people find themselves paying for medical treatment out-of-pocket, year after year. Insurance companies bank the entire premiums, year after year.
Bernie Sanders has a solution: Replace Obamacare with Single Payer, or Medicare for all. With smaller monthly payments, consistent with what Medicare patients pay now, Single Payer will pay for itself. Moreover, negotiating drug prices would be a feature not presently in force. The system could be incentivized, whereby people would be eligible for a refund if they took care of their health and didn’t use the system. Everyone wins. as the nation grows healthier. He points to other countries, including Canada, where universal care is provided by the government.
Hillary Clinton, in contrast, likes Obamacare and recognizes only that its shortcomings, while not defining them, are fixable. Insurance companies, not unexpectedly, will support her candidacy lavishly, as permitted by the Citizen’s United perversion created by the Supreme Court.
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