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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Katelew who wrote (41509)	3/19/2017 5:45:08 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Can you source the article of the idiot and son, please? Sorry. I had seen it several times so I just assumed... NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic’s son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump. “I think it was just because of the tax credit,” said McComic, 52, a former first-grade teacher who traveled to Trump’s Wednesday night rally in Nashville from Lexington, Tenn., with her daughter, mother, aunt and cousin. The price change was actually thanks to a subsidy made possible by former president Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which is still in place, not by the tax credits proposed by Republicans as part of the health-care bill still being considered by Congress. Classic caricature cont'd: washingtonpost.com The first is cost considerations, mainly rising premiums, deductibles, and co-pays that are leaving people with policies that only become usable with a major illness or accident. Hence, very expensive catastrophic policies. The other is the difficulty in finding a doctor or dentist who will accept Medicaid. Re the first, the news is just screaming about the huge drop in the size of the support so, given the general ignorance on the subject and the sketchy nature of the proposal, folks, D's and otherwise, naturally assume that they will pay more. You are the only person I have seen say that the R's credits are too high. Re Medicaid access, the D's would prefer single payer, in which case that would no longer be a problem, at least no more of a problem for current Medicaid patients than for everyone else.