Those who did not make enough to qualify for subsidized insurance premiums were to be covered by expanded medicaid, but that provision in the Red States was a victim of the Republican's supreme-court-allowed wrecking ball. What happened was that in the Red States many people made too little money to qualify for subsidized insurance premiums, but couldn't qualify for medicaid because Red States killed its expansion. That's mainly how the Republicans intentionally, and largely damaged the ACA. Millions in the Red States, as before, were left without access. The Biden Admin tried to correct this situation to some extent. I don't know how successful that effort was. Regardless none of this stuff can ever work because medical care is not amenable to capitalism. Curiously, the poor were better off before the advent of Medicare, because then most physicians were in private rather than clinical practice and they routinely adjusted their fees according to what the patient could afford. And they made house calls and visited their hospitalized patients twice a day, early morning and evening!, not once a day for 30 seconds as is too common today. There are some bight spots in the U.S. medical care picture, however. The VA and medicaid! Both examples of successful socialism.
I have traveled around the world while living in different countries... I've met many people (in person) of a religious faith who specifically identify with a denomination. Some would specifically give me a name that would cause me to get on my iPhone and look it up because I had never heard it before (e.g. French Coptic Orthodox). What's striking is that rarely do people I meet in person say they're a "Christian" even though the denomination they gave is a denomination of Christianity. I tell people in person I was raised as a French Catholic in a Catholic family although my grandmother practiced the Peyote religion. Yet, I've never said in person that I'm a "Christian" and I do not believe I have said online that I am a "Christian". Maybe it's because I'm not blindly following a religion. In comparison, I see a lot of people online saying they're "Christian" without mentioning any specific denomination. Further, I see their online cavalier behavior towards others online one day and then next day they're telling every one they're a "Christian" as if they're a corrupt politician running for election. Just as strange, I've met more racists, prophets of hate who say they're a "Christian". The weird aspect is that they're unable to see the contradiction that has imprisoned them. wrbtrader
Aren't you the idiot who claimed Trump wasnt allowed to be the ballot. Yes, I can confirm that was you. Horrible prediction.
You are a French Canadian and have horrible heathcare. People every day are dying on waiting lists for critical procedures. BTW, guess whose going to the game and going to take over Montreal this weekend.
That health care is better then what you get. Canadians outlive Americans across the board by several years. Really funny that something so basically proven by the data yet you continually post emotionally based shit that says otherwise.
In my post #130 above, I should have given a definition for "economic rents" as otherwise the post won't make sense to those who have never studied economics. Economists use their own peculiar definition of "rent" which has little to do with the way we use the word "rent" in every day conversation. "Economic Rents" are the differences between what one actually pays for a good or service minus what would otherwise have been paid in a perfectly competitive market. If a market is perfectly competitive, then, by definition, there is no economic rent to be paid. (Zero economic rent does not mean zero profit. "Rents" are the excess profits made due to a market being less than perfectly competitive.) U.S. Health Care involves markets where competition is far less than what would be ideal from a buyers perspective. High rents are what monopolies and cartels desire. One expects high rent markets to attract the attention of Congress who may seek to regulate these markets with the intentions of furthering competition and keeping rents within reason. However another economist's term comes into play, and that is "regulatory capture." Regulatory capture refers to the regulators -- in the current context: members of Congress -- themselves becoming captives of the regulated. This is an unintended consequence. In Medicine, regulatory capture occurs when the Hospitals', Doctors', Pharma, insurance companies, and medical equipment manufacturers become major, anonymous contributors to Congressional political campaigns via Political Action Committees. Naturally, if the regulators become dependent on money from the regulated, the regulators will not want to regulate in a way that would noticeably reduce profits of the regulated. The "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision gave some first amendment rights to corporations and associations. This has become a license for corporations, associations, individuals, etc., to skirt FEC contribution limits via unrestricted donations to Political Action Committees (PACs) without the donors names being revealed to the public. PACs multiplied like rodents after the Court's "Citizens" decision. Meanwhile, the amount of money contributed directly to political campaigns by individuals remains strictly limited by law. It would be a gross under statement to describe the "Citizens United" decision as absurd.
This is a site where numerous posters claim that American health care is the best system yet whine about their premiums. No other country can claim the numbers of health event induced bankruptcies as the US. How can that be in a country with the best GDP ? And how can Americans die several years earlier then Canadians across the board if the health care is excellent ? Or is the idea only Americans with money are allowed to live out their full lives ? Canada got universal heath care many decades back. Americans can pretend our system is deficient but very few Canadians would voluntarily drop our system for the mess that is the US system.
Before Trump got involved in politics...he commented about the great healthcare that Canada has. Now Trump wants to buy both Greenland and Canada...two countries with universal healthcare system. Yet, he's not smart enough to know the United States already has a great VA Healthcare system that ranks as one of the best in the world. Sadly, the U.S. refuses to copy the VA Healthcare system to its traditional public and private healthcare system. The healthcare in the U.S. is one of the biggest financial debt reasons for American consumers. Healthcare Insights: How Medical Debt Is Crushing 100 Million Americans Approximately 14 million people (6% of adults) in the U.S. owe over $1,000 in medical debt and about 3 million people (1% of adults) owe medical debt of more than $10,000.” Additionally, this government report identifies many of the components of medical debt which are completely out of the control of the patient. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/scheinm...w-medical-debt-crushing-100-million-americans In the fall of 2016, I was hospitalized in France (universal healthcare in France ranked #20, Canada healthcare ranked #32 while the United States healthcare is ranked #69 in the world) in a coma and life support... France contacted the U.S. Embassy in France. The U.S. Embassy contacted the Walter Reed Medical Hospital and the U.S. Embassy in Canada to arrange a joint Medevac transportation from France to Canada instead of back to the United States. The U.S. Embassy told my family its because I have a "higher chance" of surviving in Canada than in the United States plus I would have no medical debt in comparison to being Medevac to the United States (Walter Reed Medical Hospital) because my family & relatives would have had to pay for their own costs in Bethesda, Maryland. I have a brother (Doctor in South Dakota), Sister (Emergency room head nurse in Illinois), and youngest brother (EMT in Kentucky). They were very impressed by the medical care I received in France and Canada. Had I been hospitalized in the United States, the cost could have easily been +700k dollars whereas it was ZERO dollars in Canada. The VA Healthcare system & Canada even made arrangements for my kids to be taken care of until the parents of my spouse (Canada) and relatives in the United States arrived to France. My brother said it best, France and Canada's attention to medical detail during my hospitalization is the reason for my survival when I was initially given a 5% survival. Today, I feel very lucky and my siblings say that if they're in a life & death medical situation...they hope it occurs while they're vacationing in Canada or France and not in the United States. Google world healthcare system ranking is a little different because they're using variables that includes the VA Healthcare system. Simply, the United States makes big jumps upwards on the global healthcare rankings if the VA is included in the U.S. healthcare system: 2024 Country Healthcare Ranking (Top 24 countries in the world) In many ways, the the U.S. VA healthcare system is a perfect model for a national or universal healthcare system paid by the U.S. government at no cost to us U.S. Veterans, and U.S. Active Duty military and dependents. France ranked #14, Canada ranked #19 and the United States ranked #24 P.S. After I came out of an almost 2 month coma, one of the best experiences about my hospitalization that I remember...in the middle of the night, a beautiful busty nurse came into my room after I pressed the red button on my bed because something was burning on my neck. The nurse came in and begin pressing her body against me while she cleaned the two catheters embedded in my neck. wrbtrader
If your social media is saying "Free Luigi," the government is watching you and considers you a threat. Government Monitoring Those With "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies New documents reveal flurry of intelligence activity following Luigi Mangione's arrest https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/government-monitoring-those-with