say, for example, someone could buy into medicare, at cost, at any age. Would likely be cheaper than if I went to a private insurer for individual coverage, no? Yes there is the problem of the high risk pool buying into medicare thus increasing its cost for all
not really if you still expect to bar pre-existing condition exclusions. Anyone with a real actuary as an advisor would tell you it still costs money to treat those patients and the money has to come from somewhere
NO party will help you or help the pharmacist profession. We are suffereing from Within our own system of pharmacy schools and Greed. We have to help ourselves and go to congress and propose a Law that limits pharmacy schools in every state.
I was with you till you said congress lol
The govt that can fix drug prices can decide you aren’t allowed to make more than $30k as a pharmacist. Be careful what you wish for
Yes, but why is that?
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i was always under the belief the Med D drugs were rather profitable, especially 90 day supplies of oddball generics. Medicaid is dependent by state. Have heard that in Texas Medicaid scripts are profitable. I believe it is the private PBMs that hurt pharmacy profits the most.
Because you don’t piss off the 800lb gorilla
Dude.
You are equating a $10 billion dollar cost of the auto bailout.
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And a $15 billion dollar profit in TARP / Bank bailout
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With a ONE POINT FIVE ****ING TRILLION DOLLAR bailout of student loans.
2024 Student Loan Debt Statistics: Average Student Loan Debt
The cost of college has steadily increased over the last 30 years. In that timeframe, tuition costs at public four-year colleges grew from $4,160 to $10,740 and from $19,360 to $38,070 at private nonprofit institutions (adjusted for inflation). As costs have risen, so has the need for student loans
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
It is not imaginable that the student loans will ever be forgiven. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
To put the student loans in perspective from that article.
Forgiving the student loans is equivalent to forgiving EVERY CAR LOAN or EVERY CREDIT CARD BALANCE.
It is unimaginable.
Speaker Pelosi: we have to pass Obamacare to see what's in it...
public insurance option, not public hospitals/providers.
not sure i am following you. unsubsidized meaning taxpayer doesnt pay a dime
And how do you expect that math to work?
the person purchasing the insurance buys in at cost. the argument could be made that those with preexisting conditions are more likely to join in. ok, realistically, how many people are going to do this, and what is it as a percentage of those already insured. For example, lets say there are currently 90 million people on medicare. The government opens up an option for anyone to buy in at cost. Who is going to want to do that? Only a small number of people who do not have insurance through their employer or medicaid. And if they raise medicare prices due to the preexisting conditions, pass that cost onto them. And to be honest, it might actually work the other way and lower the average cost per person since the existing pool on medicare are already fairly expensive to insure simply due to average age)
the 2 main benefits of what i am suggesting are 1) group pricing leverage of the government available to all and 2) insurance without a middleman (insurance company) making hundreds of billions in profit. let the government insurance me at cost, no loss or profit to them.
The reason people want this option is because they cannot afford to pay the actuarial cost of premiums/deductions of a policy (govt or otherwise) that could cover their expenses
You are a conservative and want smaller government. I am the same way. However there are certain areas we need government involvement. Example would be our military. It is inefficient and wasteful but better than us having individual groups of privately funded militias to defend our interests. I would argue the same for healthcare. We need to elect/appoint people who will do it right.
Except you are wrong about what is “right” here. Govt shouldn’t be providing healthcare to the general population
What would your solution be, then? As someone stated above, healthcare should not be tied to employment
Healthcare should be tied to the patient (or private charity) paying for it. This can be directly or through insurance (either personal or employed).
sounds like what we had before obamacare. that didnt work either...
Not if “works” means everybody had eveything. But that’s not a goal we can do in a country that respects rights
it didnt work in that prices were skyrocketing for all of us.
Which would not have been the case (to the degree it was going up) had govt not been interfering.
countries with government run healthcare are all cheaper than us. every single one.
They also limit things, have populations with healthier lifestyles, don’t provide most the research to have the good health improvements, have absurd taxes, and don’t actually have much better outcomes when you really break down the data
