You know what I don’t understand? Why aren’t American companies screaming about this? Health insurance costs will rise even faster, along with co-pays and deductibles. Every American company that has international competition has to pay for healthcare coverage out of their own bottom line, which drives their costs up, while their foreign competitors don’t. Why aren’t US companies screaming at Trump and the Republicans?
My employer is self-insuring, so neither the pre-existing condition mandate nor any of the penalties really applied as far as I know. I think that's one thing that gets a bit lost in all this. Really big companies only use Anthem or whoever to administrate the coverage, but they aren't in the same risk pool. Their pool only consists of their own employees, which is why they also put so much into things like no-smoking attestations and fitness programs to theoretically have employees who are healthier to begin with.
Don't forget after McCain saved the ACA, the asshole Republicans allowed junk healthcare policies back on the market. So there are tons of folks with super low premiums and copays, until the big one hits or comes back, and then they go bankrupt. Maybe the idiot President is talking to them.
Okay, but still. Your employer pays for your health insurance, which, since you’re an American, comes out of company earnings (and costs twice as much as health insurance in Europe and Canada). Your employer is paying, say $12,000 per year per employee (more for family coverage) for health insurance. Their foreign competitors? Zero. That hurts American companies, whether they’re self-insured or buying Blue Cross. If we had, say, Medicare for All, that’s a huge cost that disappears from your employer’s expenses. Why aren’t American companies demanding government healthcare?
Trump just raised tariffs on our aluminum in Canada based on Wilbur Ross's timely 2017 assessment that we are a security threat to the US. YEppers, eh.So, why does Trump think we are just going along with this EO, of which I am sure there was zero consulting with our Minister Freeland. Freeland, none of you will recall, was insulted and snubbed by both Kushner and Trump during the USM errr SMTUS, errr NAFTA 2.0 negotiations.
It's so infuriating. And even if he could COMMAND companies to cover all patients everywhere regardless of preexisting conditions...does his EO say anything about whether or not companies are allowed to gouge those preexisting conditions folks? Or that the coverage they buy has to cover useful things? "Anyone can get coverage!... It's just that some of you will have to pay 10x more! And the coverage you CAN afford covers 2 aspirin and a pat on the head!"
I mean, I guess theoretically having access to insanely expensive insurance is better than not having access at all, but if you can't afford that insurance, then it is in practice inaccessible.
Some people just LOVE to pretend that "you have the right to try to get something" is equivalent to "you can get something". And for something like "life-saving medical care that doesn't force me into bankruptcy or the choice between medication and food" ignoring that distinction is monstrous.
You know what I don’t understand? Why aren’t American companies screaming about this? Health insurance costs will rise even faster, along with co-pays and deductibles. Every American company that has international competition has to pay for healthcare coverage out of their own bottom line, which drives their costs up, while their foreign competitors don’t. Why aren’t US companies screaming at Trump and the Republicans?
My employer is self-insuring, so neither the pre-existing condition mandate nor any of the penalties really applied as far as I know. I think that's one thing that gets a bit lost in all this. Really big companies only use Anthem or whoever to administrate the coverage, but they aren't in the same risk pool. Their pool only consists of their own employees, which is why they also put so much into things like no-smoking attestations and fitness programs to theoretically have employees who are healthier to begin with.
Don't forget after McCain saved the ACA, the asshole Republicans allowed junk healthcare policies back on the market. So there are tons of folks with super low premiums and copays, until the big one hits or comes back, and then they go bankrupt. Maybe the idiot President is talking to them.
Okay, but still. Your employer pays for your health insurance, which, since you’re an American, comes out of company earnings (and costs twice as much as health insurance in Europe and Canada). Your employer is paying, say $12,000 per year per employee (more for family coverage) for health insurance. Their foreign competitors? Zero. That hurts American companies, whether they’re self-insured or buying Blue Cross. If we had, say, Medicare for All, that’s a huge cost that disappears from your employer’s expenses. Why aren’t American companies demanding government healthcare?
Hit him so hard and so often that he gets gun shy and stops doing the one thing he enjoys besides golf: speaking before adoring crowds.
That's too late! The virus disappeared in April, when it got warmer.
Soooo, Canadian here.
Trump just raised tariffs on our aluminum in Canada based on Wilbur Ross's timely 2017 assessment that we are a security threat to the US. YEppers, eh.So, why does Trump think we are just going along with this EO, of which I am sure there was zero consulting with our Minister Freeland. Freeland, none of you will recall, was insulted and snubbed by both Kushner and Trump during the USM errr SMTUS, errr NAFTA 2.0 negotiations.
We can read polls, too.
Yes, it is a very good article, but you may not want to read all the posts on it as there are shitloads of Trumpers who swarn RS stories all the time.
That's a requisite for those crooks
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It's so infuriating. And even if he could COMMAND companies to cover all patients everywhere regardless of preexisting conditions...does his EO say anything about whether or not companies are allowed to gouge those preexisting conditions folks? Or that the coverage they buy has to cover useful things? "Anyone can get coverage!... It's just that some of you will have to pay 10x more! And the coverage you CAN afford covers 2 aspirin and a pat on the head!"
I mean, I guess theoretically having access to insanely expensive insurance is better than not having access at all, but if you can't afford that insurance, then it is in practice inaccessible.
Some people just LOVE to pretend that "you have the right to try to get something" is equivalent to "you can get something". And for something like "life-saving medical care that doesn't force me into bankruptcy or the choice between medication and food" ignoring that distinction is monstrous.
The bigger the pool, the less dirty the water when someone pees in it.....
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and, since it's trump, the "vaccine" won't work
Hooray for Cyril Kornbluth!
Is there any conversation of a wanna-be mob boss's that does not?
Shhh.Let's not tell him.