High deductible health insurance is an irritation for young, healthy families with modest incomes. In fact, health insurance with, say, a $10,000 deductible is almost like not having health insurance at all.
Obamacare envisioned a major role for the state governments, often trying to force them to do what they didn’t want to do and harming their citizens in the process.
The Republican health plan will kill people,” says Bernie Sanders. “The Republican Party is the party of death,” says the headline at Political dig.
The latest Republican plans for replacing Obamacare are focused on financially separating patients with high health care costs from all the rest.
It’s a flawed program. Everybody knows it. Premiums are too high. Deductibles are too high. Doctor and hospital networks are too narrow.
Why can’t Republicans be more like Democrats?
Many conversations on the right involve people with one priority arguing with people with another priority. The result: folks often talk past each other because they are not talking about the same subject.
One of the more interesting television commercials I see is an ad sponsored by Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). The message: if you have cancer, we want you.
Here is something you can take to the bank. If Republicans can’t produce an alternative to Obamacare that solves the real problems of ordinary people, they will never be able to pass a health reform bill.
Republicans in Congress have never been more divided over what constitutes a conservative approach to Obamacare. If that doesn’t strike you as strange, it should.