The field narrows: The Post Super Tuesday presidential poll and discussion

[Driftwood]

I don't think the government should give a blank check for medical care, but we need to regulate the hell out of the industry. It shouldn't be for profit in terms of boards of directors and share holders.
Pay the providers, but I'm sure that five-mile ambulance ride didn't really incur $5,000 worth of expenses to complete.
If you want a nose job, pay for it yourself. If you fall and break your leg, the out of pocket expense really shouldn't be more than a couple hundred bucks to pay for the equipment, supplies, and person who patched you up.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

It's common sense at this point to want everyone in the country to have health insurance. But there are big differences in what Biden and Sanders are proposing. Sanders, of course, wants Medicare for All, which Biden staunchly opposes. Some on this board have even said that they'd prefer to keep their health insurance, which would still require $1,000 out-of-pocket for a COVID-19 test.

That's bullship. You shouldn't have to pay roughly 20 percent of your income for health insurance and still have such outrageous out-of-pocket expenses. It's another way in which the wealthy in this country benefit over the poor, even if the poor are paying their share for insurance. One aim of M4A is to eliminate that.

M4A isn't the only option for universal health care. Biden favors single-payer.

 

[BTExpress]

It's common sense at this point to want everyone in the country to have health care insurance.

FTFY.

99 percent of pre-medicare people will pay FAR more in insurance premiums than they would have ever incurred in medical bills without insurance. It's why insurance companies make billions.

We have insurance --- throw away all this money --- JUST IN CASE!!!!!!! we happen to fall into the 1 percent whose finances will be saved by having insurance because of a catastrophic event or illness.

So forking stupid.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Don't have insurance then ... if you want to take the risk then that's between you and the Lord.

Responsible people think it smart to be covered.

In a world of supposed order, chaos reigns.

Which we're seeing right forking now.

 

[ChrisLong]

Premiums, copays, deductibles for prescriptions -- it's a goddamn pyramid scheme.
I ordered a three-month supply of a blood thinner my cardiologist prescribed -- $461.
Last year it started at about $350 and was down to about $130 by the end of the year.
Calendar turned, it shot right back up.
Oh, and the premium went from $20 in 2018, to $30 in 2019, to $64 this year. When I called to complain, I asked the guy on the phone why my premium went up more than 200 percent in two years and I asked if his pay went up 200 percent, too. hahaha.
I'm not for socialism, but I think socialized medicine is the ticket.

 

[Driftwood]

Louisiana primary delayed.

 

[swingline]

Without my wife's insurance, we would have had to somehow — as in, never be able to — pay $250,000 in medical costs last year. Instead, we paid our deductible, which was around $6,500 to $7,000.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Without my wife's insurance, we would have had to somehow — as in, never be able to — pay $250,000 in medical costs last year. Instead, we paid our deductible, which was around $6,500 to $7,000.

According to BTE, you are a One Percenter.

 

[qtlaw]

Premiums, copays, deductibles for prescriptions -- it's a goddamn pyramid scheme.
I ordered a three-month supply of a blood thinner my cardiologist prescribed -- $461.
Last year it started at about $350 and was down to about $130 by the end of the year.
Calendar turned, it shot right back up.
Oh, and the premium went from $20 in 2018, to $30 in 2019, to $64 this year. When I called to complain, I asked the guy on the phone why my premium went up more than 200 percent in two years and I asked if his pay went up 200 percent, too. hahaha.
I'm not for socialism, but I think socialized medicine is the ticket.

Sure insurance is at times over priced, there wouldn't be insurance companies if they took a loss. As everything, there's a cost of doing business right? Everyone should make a profit. 200%?? Maybe not. But that's where competition is supposed to kick in to keep costs down. Of course, then there's a monopoly or oligopoly and no price decrease and perhaps increases. Pharma drugs are working this way at times.

But Chris L, I'd give you a gentle reminder that you need blood thinner and it costs $2000 a year, which is not cheap. But how much do you pay for cell phone/internet/tv costs? What's more important? (Not trying to be rude or preachy, just trying to put it in perspective.) BTW, I wish you the best.

 

[Tweener]

M4A isn't the only option for universal health care. Biden favors single-payer.

M4A would cover every American, automatically. Everyone, regardless of their station in life, would have access to healthcare. Biden's plan would leave 10 million uninsured. That, by definition, is not universal.

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[Regan MacNeil]

Medicare and the VA are single-payer. Canada is single-payer. So they don't have universal health care?

 

[ChrisLong]

Sure insurance is at times over priced, there wouldn't be insurance companies if they took a loss. As everything, there's a cost of doing business right? Everyone should make a profit. 200%?? Maybe not. But that's where competition is supposed to kick in to keep costs down. Of course, then there's a monopoly or oligopoly and no price decrease and perhaps increases. Pharma drugs are working this way at times.

But Chris L, I'd give you a gentle reminder that you need blood thinner and it costs $2000 a year, which is not cheap. But how much do you pay for cell phone/internet/tv costs? What's more important? (Not trying to be rude or preachy, just trying to put it in perspective.) BTW, I wish you the best.

It's the darn deductible ON TOP of a premium ON TOP of a copay. The same drug that's $461 in March will be $120 in December. Same pills, same dosage, same bottle, same shipping.
Hell, you can always make those comparisons: the price of a newspaper is less than a cup of Starbucks; priorities ...