"If we let obama live, america will die" Pastor calls for assassination.

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Kasz216 said:

ckmlb said:

 

You didn't actually read my post then, cause your bringing up a bunch of stuff that doesn't actually refer to what i said.  Additionally you should read the offical detailed AMA stance you can find and download on their webpage in about 5 minutes.  It's a lot different then you think it is.

The AARP supports this reform beacuse it includes a provision that increases medicaid and medicare benefits.  AARP members mostly being a part of medicaid and/or medicare anyway... making this entire revision meaningless to them.

 

As for why rates will go up... i'll start with one reason.  The simpliest, rather then resort to numerous reasons since that approach leads to them being ignored.

 

1) You can't discriminate against people with prexisting conditions.  Meaning you can't charge anyone with a prexisitng condition a different rate then a normal person.

A) This means the cost needs to be mitigated to everyone.  Meaning for average people, your healthcare insurance will go up.

B) May push smaller insraunce companies out of buisness who can't afford having too many people collect and could only afford to insure healthy people.  Making less competition and the bigger companies the only competition.  The bigger companies being the ones rated poorly for healthcare coverage by the AMA.

 

Them and the US government.

Fun fact.  According to the America Medial Assosiation's National Healthcare Report Card the US government was 1st in denials on average for coverge in 2007... and second in denials on average for 2008 compared to other major healthcare providers.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/solutions-managing-your-practice/coding-billing-insurance/heal-claims-process/national-health-insurer-report-card.shtml

If the AMA thought this legistlation was more of a threat than terrorism as you do, I think they would have not supported it. 

I do understand that costs would go up and that's clear to everybody, but on the other hand the current state of affairs is unfair to people with pre-existing conditions and people with no health coverage. If an insurance company is supposed to insure only the healthy what's the point of insurance? Only for accidents? If that is the case these companies should call themselves accident insurance companies or something of the sort, not healthcare providers.