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To: puborectalis who wrote (655479)	5/20/2012 1:03:23 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578804

>>> Under President Obama’s new health care law, all new insurance plans are required to cover certain preventive services without charging a co-pay or deductible You think we aren't all going to pay for this, through the nose? It is stupid. Insurance, if it is to be affordable, should cover disasters. Not trips to the doctor to have your cholesterol checked. >>> and seniors are saving hundreds of dollars on prescription drugs through Medicare. This is odd, given the liberals have bashed the daylights out of GWB over the cost of Part D. And now, Obamcare massively increases the cost of the program, gutting its most important money-saving feature, and the very thing that has made it come in massively under budget every year (the patients having "skin in the game"). >> 2.5 million young adults have been allowed to remain on their parents' health insurance until age 26. And why should they? It doesn't matter, for the most part. You think there is some kind of "free ride" involved? >> All Americans who enrolled in a health care plan after Sept. 23, 2010 now enjoy access to free preventive services, including cancer and cholesterol screenings, mammograms, colonoscopies, flu and pneumonia shots, vaccinations against measles, hepatitis and meningitis, blood pressure checks and nutrition counseling. FREE? You fucking idiot. It isn't "FREE". >> 1.8 million Medicare recipients received a 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs in the Medicare Part D coverage gap known as the "doughnut hole" in the first nine months of 2011. >> 4 million small businesses are now eligible for tax credits of up to 35 percent to help cover their employees. The credit jumps to 50 percent in 2014. And who the hell do you think is paying for THIS? But it is worse -- because not only do taxpayers pick up the tab for these "benefits", elimination of the donut hole destroyed what had been one of the most fiscally successful programs the government has ever run. Destroyed it. >>> Your health insurance company is now required to spend at least 80 percent of your premium (85 percent for large employer plans) directly on your care and well-being or rebate the difference to you beginning this summer. And exactly how do you think this benefits the rate payers? You do realize that the MARKETS control access to capital, not some arbitrary government fiat? The cost of health insurance will go UP as a result of this ridiculous provision. >> Americans with pre-existing conditions can now obtain coverage through a pre-existing condition insurance plan. This is a good provision, IMO, but could have been achieved without wrecking the entire health care finance system. >> Insurance companies can no longer place lifetime dollar limits on essential benefits for policies written after Sept. 23, 2010. Annual dollar limits will be prohibited beginning in 2014. And at the same time will increase premiums on every last one of those policies.