You can read the whole thing but the main things are the EMTALA guarrantees hospitals must serve anyone that walks in and every time more medicaid is offered, it’s abused and it really doesn’t lead to better health.
I found these the main points:
“The very idea that having health insurance is what allows you to have health care is simply wrong. Our first step has to be EMTALA. This alphabet soup statute makes it illegal for any hospital to put “Do you have insurance?” between you and medical care for an emergency. That means that every hospital in the country will fix what’s wrong with you. Afterward they may try to get their pound of flesh back, but there are a host of programs, including the American Health Care Act-protected “Pre-existing Conditions” provision that will take care of things. Notice I did not say the “Obamacare” provision.”
And:
“In 1971-82 the Rand Corporation did a large study to look at the health benefits of health insurance. They didn’t find any health benefits. Then in 2006 Dave and Kaestner looked at people moving from no insurance to Medicare at age 65. They didn’t find any health benefits to being on Medicare. But they did find an increase in risky behaviors like smoking and overeating leading to obesity.
The real gold mine is the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. In 2008, Oregon had enough money to add a number of people to their Medicaid program. Because they couldn’t add everyone, they drew names by lottery to pick who could participate. And being really smart, they realized that this was a perfect randomized clinical trial. So they hired statisticians and got busy.
By now, you can guess the outcome. And you’d be right. There was no health benefit to having Medicaid versus no insurance at all. And it wasn’t because Oregon paid doctors badly. They paid significantly better than the national average. The only “health” benefit they were able to find was a reduction in depression.”
And:
What about costs? Patients who had Medicaid overused medical resources without any health benefit. Their costs were 40% higher than people without insurance at all, and there was still no improvement in health. Put bluntly, health insurance, as we think of it now, is worse than worthless. If it were a new drug being presented to the FDA for approval, it would be rejected out of hand because it does no good and costs more. The only good form of insurance is catastrophic-only coverage, which is cheap because it only covers the rare disaster.”
The answer is this simple: Health insurance like home and car insurance IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT!
Pay for the insurance or go without. Too many “victims” as the Democrats call the irresponsible social parasites would rather spend their money on expensive cellphone plans, Bling jewelry and SUVs. They get sick and have no insurance guess who pays the freight? Yup, us sap taxpayers.
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This american thinker article nailed that theme as wrong:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/democrats_are_insulting_the_public_with_dire_claims_of_deaths_from_obamacare_repeal.html
You can read the whole thing but the main things are the EMTALA guarrantees hospitals must serve anyone that walks in and every time more medicaid is offered, it’s abused and it really doesn’t lead to better health.
I found these the main points:
“The very idea that having health insurance is what allows you to have health care is simply wrong. Our first step has to be EMTALA. This alphabet soup statute makes it illegal for any hospital to put “Do you have insurance?” between you and medical care for an emergency. That means that every hospital in the country will fix what’s wrong with you. Afterward they may try to get their pound of flesh back, but there are a host of programs, including the American Health Care Act-protected “Pre-existing Conditions” provision that will take care of things. Notice I did not say the “Obamacare” provision.”
And:
“In 1971-82 the Rand Corporation did a large study to look at the health benefits of health insurance. They didn’t find any health benefits. Then in 2006 Dave and Kaestner looked at people moving from no insurance to Medicare at age 65. They didn’t find any health benefits to being on Medicare. But they did find an increase in risky behaviors like smoking and overeating leading to obesity.
The real gold mine is the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. In 2008, Oregon had enough money to add a number of people to their Medicaid program. Because they couldn’t add everyone, they drew names by lottery to pick who could participate. And being really smart, they realized that this was a perfect randomized clinical trial. So they hired statisticians and got busy.
By now, you can guess the outcome. And you’d be right. There was no health benefit to having Medicaid versus no insurance at all. And it wasn’t because Oregon paid doctors badly. They paid significantly better than the national average. The only “health” benefit they were able to find was a reduction in depression.”
And:
What about costs? Patients who had Medicaid overused medical resources without any health benefit. Their costs were 40% higher than people without insurance at all, and there was still no improvement in health. Put bluntly, health insurance, as we think of it now, is worse than worthless. If it were a new drug being presented to the FDA for approval, it would be rejected out of hand because it does no good and costs more. The only good form of insurance is catastrophic-only coverage, which is cheap because it only covers the rare disaster.”
The answer is this simple: Health insurance like home and car insurance IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT!
Pay for the insurance or go without. Too many “victims” as the Democrats call the irresponsible social parasites would rather spend their money on expensive cellphone plans, Bling jewelry and SUVs. They get sick and have no insurance guess who pays the freight? Yup, us sap taxpayers.