tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3849327877887501434..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Paul Ryan and MedicareMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-12106753237593463442013-01-17T07:28:17.089-06:002013-01-17T07:28:17.089-06:00Since Obamacare was signed into law, insurance pre...Since Obamacare was signed into law, insurance premiums have gone up by $2500 to $3000 per year. It's a bad law. Taxing the sale of medical devices and supplies is grossly unfair to patients, and rationing care for the very young and the elderly is criminal. At 70, I have a living will and left instructions for DNR and much more (to do much less), but EMS personnel ignore it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-31027063136899424262011-04-24T13:37:54.539-05:002011-04-24T13:37:54.539-05:00If you want to know why we pay twice as much as th...If you want to know why we pay twice as much as the Europeans for health care for worse outcomes it's because the government and private health insurers are writing blank checks to the medical establishment. If you have 50,000,000 people who only have $11,000 a year to spend on health insurance, guess what, someone will find a way to make that work - hint, it will involve less money for the medical establishment. The alternative is that the doctors, nurses, drug and medical device makers will control 50% of the economy in the near future.Bubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367554651401120819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-22410399904820667852011-04-22T00:03:36.917-05:002011-04-22T00:03:36.917-05:00@Barbwire--I agree totally. I'm exactly your a...@Barbwire--I agree totally. I'm exactly your age, and I've done the same thing.<br /><br />But it really has to be an individual decision, I think. It's one thing to promote the idea, and quite another to enforce it.<br /><br />--Swift LorisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-81156659307133335692011-04-21T22:05:02.158-05:002011-04-21T22:05:02.158-05:00Swift, you are right.
And Barb, I think most edu...Swift, you are right. <br /><br />And Barb, I think most educated people would agree with you.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-46263626747640015962011-04-21T20:44:59.400-05:002011-04-21T20:44:59.400-05:00Let's talk rationing for a minute. For many ol...Let's talk rationing for a minute. For many old people, the last year of their lives eats up more money than all the eighty-some years that went before. Why do we spend so muchmoney trying to keep old people alive? I am almost 70, and made my living will years ago. No extraordinary measures, do not resuscitate, with strong instructions to my children to pull the plug. <br /><br />Nor should we spend huge amounts of money trying to keep babies born without vital parts alive. <br /><br />We, as a society, need to become more realistic about health care in general. Just because vry expensive treatments exist, it doesn't mean they always have to be employed. Let's be sensible.Barbwirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-57534494899689717232011-04-21T11:26:07.939-05:002011-04-21T11:26:07.939-05:00@DaBris--the Ryan vouchers are to pay for private ...@DaBris--the Ryan vouchers are to pay for private health insurance, not health care per se, as I understand it, so once you've purchased your insurance with the voucher, there's nothing to be blown through. The insurance company will be paying the doctors and hospitals.<br /><br />Co-pays and deductibles, and anything above the annual maximum benefit allowed by your plan, will come right out of your pocket, though; the vouchers won't help with those.<br /><br />(Somebody please correct me if I have this wrong.)<br /><br />--Swift LorisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-6252093335681492842011-04-21T02:08:36.849-05:002011-04-21T02:08:36.849-05:00And Ayn Rand was swift and happy to pocket every g...And Ayn Rand was swift and happy to pocket every government $ she could grab when she was fighting the big C...Stan B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17381743002180926900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-79031689667481838612011-04-21T00:18:34.723-05:002011-04-21T00:18:34.723-05:00Another point about the Ryan plan that was mention...Another point about the Ryan plan that was mentioned on a recent Real Time is the question is "if you are really sick, like so many elderly are, and you blow through that allotment early in the year, what happens then? If you blow though $11,000 in two months, what do you do for the rest of the 10 months of that year?DaBrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-56860049419477898582011-04-20T23:57:16.902-05:002011-04-20T23:57:16.902-05:00Ryan would rather let the insurance companies do t...Ryan would rather let the insurance companies do the rationing. Yeah, I mean, we can really trust them, right?<br /><br />There are so many things wrong with his plan, it's ridiculous.<br /><br />We pay roughly twice as much for our health care as other developed nations, and it's not that much better, if at all. The solution isn't to make poor and old people pay more for their care, it's to figure out how to make health care less expensive for everybody. If other countries can do it, why can't we?<br /><br />--Swift LorisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-67232327692873891552011-04-20T15:30:49.082-05:002011-04-20T15:30:49.082-05:00Current consumer choice of private healthcare insu...Current consumer choice of private healthcare insurance plans has done sooooo much to reign in costs, hasn't it?BJNnoreply@blogger.com