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K “O’Bama had a bad plan, few ideas, and fewer clues.”
J “Trumpi has no plan, no idea, and no clue.”
K “And the Republicans have no plan, no idea, and no clue.”
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K “For the past seven years, House Republicans have taken meaningless vote after meaningless vote after meaningless vote after meaningless vote to repeal or roll back provisions of the Unaffordable Care Act. Now that they control all three branches of government, they are unable to conduct even one simple vote to do what they have done these innumerable times in the past.”
J “That is what happens when you actually get what you want.”
K “Seems to me that you can’t always get what you want, but if you try and try and try and try sometimes, you do not get what you do not need.”
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K “The ACA versus the AHCA. Our own national March Madness. Both are losers.”
J “The syllogism of health carelessness is so obvious. ACA = Insurance Company Control; AHCA = Insurance Company Control; ergo ACA = AHCA.”
K “And we are the losers. Could you report the score by reporting that it was an upset with both sides each scoring less than zero points.”
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K “As a country, every industry is more monopolized than at any time in American history. That includes the health insurance industry.”
J “The few providers increase premiums which lowers participation rates which results in a deterioration of the risk pool which leads to an increase in premiums which lowers participation rates which results in a deterioration of the risk pool which is then repeated and repeated.”
K “The death spiral is increasing. The only way to force participation will be to provide a mechanism to impose increases in the penalties from not participating tied to increases in the premiums for participating. The premium soon will be $5000 a month for a $50,000 deductible policy and thus the penalty for non-participation must be $5000 a month.”
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J “Sixty years olds do not need maternity coverage and sixteen year olds do not need mammograms.”
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K “What about H.R. 676, the Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act, that provides for a single payer?”
J “What we have now in most states is a ‘single exploiter’ system. A ‘single payer’ system does not heap wealth on the health insurance companies. It is doomed.”
K “We as a country cannot afford it, but we as a people cannot not afford it.”
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J “Until someone challenges all the theft forced and enforced by the government from the people to the insurance companies, nothing will improve and everything will get worse.”
K “But who really cares?”
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[See the e-commentary at the Category titled “Health Care.”]
Bumper sticker of the week:
ACA = Insurance Company Control; AHCA = Insurance Company Control; ergo ACA = AHCA.
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