Here are some selections that made my blood pressure shoot up and therefore more likely to become a character in the insurance industry’s wet dream:
“The nonpartisan budget office also concluded that the bill would leave 25 million people uninsured in 2019; about one-third of them would be illegal immigrants. By contrast, a House version of the legislation would leave 17 million uninsured, the budget office has said. Currently, at least 46 million people are uninsured.”
Wow, so not only do we continue to treat immigrants with less dignity than we do stray cats, but we reduce the number of uninsured people to less than half. What progress! We’re so lucky to be in one of the richest nations the world has ever known!
The proposal would also set limits on out-of-pocket health care expenses. It would cap at 13 percent of household income — not including cost-sharing such as co-payments and deductibles — the cost of insurance premiums for middle-class Americans who just miss qualifying for the new government subsidies.
The caps don’t include co-payments or deductibles? Then what the fuck is the point? Deductibles are fucking huge - that’s why people don’t go to the doctor and get procedures that could help them down the road - they’re scared of paying the deductibles you assholes! That’s like saying, “Sure, I’ll have sex with you, but don’t expect me to touch your genitals anytime during the proceedings.”
And maybe I’m reading this wrong, but if they’re setting the cap at what the premiums cost us already then what’s changing? How are we saving more money this way? Keeping the 13% in there just adds another confusing major detail for people to remember. I thought this thing was supposed to simplify. I also thought they wanted to reduce administrative costs. I don’t see how that’s possible if every hospital is going to have to employ someone to audit people’s financial documents to verify that their bill is within the 13% of their income. People are going to have to be hired to do all of this bullshit work.
All of the plans offered through the exchange would have to meet strict new requirements. Insurance companies could not bar coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, and could only increase the cost of premiums based on a few factors like age, tobacco use and whether a plan is for an individual or a family.
This may be naive of me, but I don’t understand why you should be allowed to raise the rates on people who age. It’s not exactly something you can overcome like smoking or being a Baptist.
On abortion, the legislation would seek to bar the use of federal funds for terminating pregnancies except in cases of rape, incest or a danger to the woman’s life — exceptions that are already specified under Medicaid law.
Private insurance plans, offered through the new exchange, could choose to cover abortion services, but they would be required to segregate money, taken from private premiums, to cover the procedure.
Jesus tapdancing Christ - did Rush Limbaugh write this shit? Again, more bullshit red tape to satisfy some retard’s idea of what Jesus thinks about your vagina. I’m so glad the “liberals” won this last election and brought all of their “progressive ideals” along with them! Ugh, I wonder how hard it would be to relocate to Toronto - it can’t be that much colder than Chicago, right?
Under the proposal, illegal immigrants would be barred from purchasing insurance through the new exchanges even if they could afford to pay the full cost on their own.
And the proposal would require strict verification of immigration status for anyone seeking to buy coverage on the exchanges, a potentially costly and labor-intensive process. Only citizens and lawful immigrants could seek subsidies to help them purchase insurance.
So even if they’ve worked hard enough (i.e. at least three times as hard than us white folk probably ever will) to actually pay for something that is a basic human right in all other sane places, our answer is “Go fuck yourself!”
While Mr. Baucus is still hoping to win the support of at least some Republicans, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing the plan.
Um, Mr. Baucus: fuck you and this limp dick bill you rode in on. Please have the other pussies in your party read this:
I’m sorry this makes me mad as fucking hell. It’s like we’ve been arguing with a sleazy used car dealer all day and then we get home and realize all of it was for a goddamned Ford Pinto.
