Red Mosquito

simple schoolboy wrote:With or without this bill, the important part of the ACA, the individual market is in a death spiral. Something has to be done at some point for that.

Anyone have a breakdown of individual health insurance vs. company-provided health insurance?

It is widely known that Trump — whose political profile over the decades has vacillated from liberal to conservative to moderate to populist, and supported and opposed abortion rights, higher taxes on the rich, and universal health care — does not care very much about political ideas. This explanation is true, but incomplete. The president also does not know very much about political ideas. And it is not merely the details of policy that he lacks. Trump has no context for processing ideas. He does not understand which kinds of ideas imply support for which kinds of policies, nor why political figures tend to believe what they do, nor why they agree or disagree with one another. He is capable of forming strongly held beliefs about people in politics, but he does so in entirely personal terms. Trump’s flamboyant, weird ignorance reveals a distinct pattern. He is not so much nonideological as sub-ideological.

tragabigzanda wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:With or without this bill, the important part of the ACA, the individual market is in a death spiral. Something has to be done at some point for that.

Anyone have a breakdown of individual health insurance vs. company-provided health insurance?

Funny you should ask, my wife made a comparison spreadsheet last night (as it relates to our own finances). Our question was whether it might be cheaper for me to set up insurance through my company (I'm the only FT employee); to buy on the open market; or for her to keep the plan we have through her job.

Keeping the plan through her job won by a significant amount. It's just about the buying power of a larger organization, you know?

Electromatic wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:With or without this bill, the important part of the ACA, the individual market is in a death spiral. Something has to be done at some point for that.

Anyone have a breakdown of individual health insurance vs. company-provided health insurance?

Funny you should ask, my wife made a comparison spreadsheet last night (as it relates to our own finances). Our question was whether it might be cheaper for me to set up insurance through my company (I'm the only FT employee); to buy on the open market; or for her to keep the plan we have through her job.

Keeping the plan through her job won by a significant amount. It's just about the buying power of a larger organization, you know?

Which ends up being the strongest economic argument for Single Payer. Health Insurance these days is not insurance, we're paying for buying into a plan in large groups. We might as well pay for it as one huge group instead of a bunch of small factions, and then use the governmental power to drive down the cost. (though it probably won't since the people in charge of that insurance/drug lobby now have all the economic and political power already)

96583UP wrote:they just need to get trump under oath somehow. that guy will perjure himself, no doubt. they could be talking sports and he would perjure himself. he is scientifically incapable of not knowingly telling untruths. get him to open his mouth for more than 35 seconds and it is a guarantee

bune wrote:https://www.conventionofstates.com/

wtf is this?