1) Enrollment optional 2) All enrollees are covered for 85% of anything medical that they need up to an annual household max copayment of $1500 in terms of incurred copayment. Once a household or enrollee has incurred $1500 in copayments in one calendar year, anything else they need is covered at 100%. Plan would cover anything medical except cosmetic voluntary procedures. This coverage also applies to all dental procedures and all vision procedures. 3) No lifetime caps 4) Enrollee seniors older than 59 years old pay $100 a month. Children enrollees (birth to age 25) are $40 per month, Adult enrollees between 25 and 59 pay $120 per month. 5) All workers would pay a national healthcare payroll tax of 3% with no limit as to income. This means that the guy who makes $50,000 pay year is paying into the national health care fund an annual payroll tax of $1,500 and the guy who is making $1 million dollars of salary is paying 3% of that salary into the health care pool. 6) To help keep costs down the following measures would also be put into place a) price caps on certain medical procedures so that providers cannot get paid anymore than say $50 for a preliminary 5 minute visit to the doctor or no more than $250 for a root canal, or an Xray cannot cost more than $50..etc.. b) some tort reform to eliminate areas where it its highly unfair to medical service providers c) more grants for those who want to go to med school, nursing school or any other career in medicine d) make hospitals be non for profit entities. So the question is whether or not there is enough money being collected via enrollment fees and the health care payroll tax and enough savings and reduction in health care costs for this to be a viable system.
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Simple. It is far cheaper than no reform at all. FACT - Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should [1] FACT - PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet [2] FACT - Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare [3] FACT - the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage [4] FACT - Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change [5] FACT - Obama wants to stop insurance companies from screwing America [6] FACT - The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and Switzerland [7] Let me know if my facts are wrong, but please provide proof.
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How is this universal health care plan for USA fiscally impossible? not politically..I said fiscally?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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