The law for car insurance says: “everybody who has a car has to buy private insurance for that car”.
Would the law for health insurance be similar if Hillary Clinton is elected president: “everybody who has a body has to buy private heath insurance for that body”.
Will it be like that or have I misunderstood her plan?
Please explain it to me.
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No, the difference is that no one gets the car insurance subsidized by the government. Poor people have to pay for care insurance just like everyone else.
Also they can’t decide not to cover you if you get “sick”.
In addition there are going to be incentives and laws to ensure that unfair price hikes aren’t put into place by the insurance companies—this is the part where she goes after insurance companies.
AND it will still be private business, and if you like your insurance now, you don’t have to buy into the government one.
All of this doesn’t matter, cause I don’t think either one will get their health care passed.
Obama’s plan is really just enforced medicade (health care for children whose parents can’t afford it).
There aren’t too many people who aren’t poor who don’t cover their children.
HERE IS THE LINK TO MEDICAID for all you kool aid drinkers.
Obama is just enforcing medicade DUH!
If your child dies because you don’t take them to the hospital, you are charged with a crime anyway. This is already illegal.
Vacination and shots are free at your local government run Clinic. You don’t have to pay for vacinations.
Yes. It would be illegal for someone not to have health insurance under Clinton’s plan. Obama’s plan would only mandate health insurance for children.
I think you have it exactly right. At the college my friend attends, you have to buy their student insurance, about 300 dollars per semester, no matter what. It’s a racket.
yes, thats about it in a nut shell, so those twenty year olds that rarely ever go to the doctor, as they rarely get sick, so they don’t buy insurance, now can help pay for everyone else that gets sick.
ITA with Larry P.
If you are an adult and don’t want to carry insurance fine. However all children should have health care. Immunizations are very, very important. Don’t allow the nuts to tell you any differently.
Her ridiculous plan is going no where. Congress will not approve any plan that ” garnishes wages” or ” requires penalties”. A similar plan is in Massachusetts. For two years they couldn’t even get half the people enrolled. It’s a bureaucratic mess.
How will Hillary punish me when I refuse to pay? Is she going to send the SWAT Team after me?
The insurance companies have more money than god, why dont the politicians go after them instead of bankrupting people that cant afford healthcare insurance?
your example is flawed as there is competition in auto insurance and we can chose to not drive but can’t chose to stay healthy
Couldn’t be. When they created the auto insurance mess the only thing they took away was your right to drive if you didn’t want to pay their fees. What are they going to take if you refuse to buy her health insurance?
It would be more like a protection racket…only you would pay Met-Life rather than a guy named Vito. They may call it insurance, but you would really be paying “premiums” to be preventing fines.
If the government gets involved they would make the decisions…such as who gets what care…and who gets to do the work. We all can see how the lowest bidder works.
Like anything the government gets involved in, you will not get much benefit for the dollars spent, and you would have penalties.
you misunderstood it.
with obama, 15 million people will not have it and you will be fined if you dont purchase the insurance. thats a fact, just google his plan. he himself at the ohio debate said, and I quote “People wont have to worry about the fine I will impose because I plan on making healthcare affordable for everyone. Although it is true that my plan wont cover everyone, its not the 15 million that Hillary says. It comes to about 10 million, and those will be the ones that get fined so we can use that money to pay for your healthcare.”
Thats from his speech at that ohio debate.
Right now people have health insurance at work. Nothing would change. If you have a current plan, nothing would change. The cost of those plans may come down because more people would be enrolled with the same insurance companies.
Now we pay for poor people who go to emergency rooms. we pay for poor people on public assistance. We pay for low paid workers like Wal Mart employees who don’t have insurance. If you lose your job and can’t afford Cobra or it runs out, and you had a serious illness in the past, today you are insurable. The insurance companies can deny to issue you a plan due to the fact they think you’re too risky. Even if you were enrolled with them for 15 years at your company — lose your job and they say, we’re done with you. If you can’t get insurance, (because they won’t take you) if you get sick, you lose your retirement account and house, and that sickness will cost you all you worked for, because the insurance companies refuse to accept you as an individual. When there’s a group though, they have to accept you, as they do now with your co many.
With Hillary’s plan, the group plan offered now to Senators will be open to everyone. They have a cafeteria plan, which gives you many choices and the insurance companies are the same ones we have now.
If you can’t afford to pay there will be subsidies and tax breaks. Ultimately everyone would be covered and there would be less infectious disease, less costly emergency rooms, and lower costs overall, to taxpayers, and insurance costs to individuals and companies would probably drop as well. It’s a good thing, it really is.