We have a healthplan you’ll absolutely love. Covers EVERYTHING – glasses, hearing aids, nursing home care, doctor visits, hospital care, surgery, drugs – all FREE!
It’s the about-to-be-announced BernieCare 2.0, aka the “Whole Enchilada Plan”. You can go to any doctor, hospital, acupuncturist, yoga instructor, therapist, or nursing home your heart – or other internal organ – desires. And did I say, it’s all for FREE!
On the other hand, there’s the SkimpyPlan – and as the Brits say, it’s “on offer” today. Well, it was until a Federal Judge ruled it isn’t.
SkimpyPlans cover, well, not much. Especially if you had one of those pre-existing condition things. You know, migraines, high blood pressure, the “C” word, bad knees, anxiety or pretty much anything else. Oh, and the list of doctors and hospitals is, well, “limited”… and they don’t cover drugs, or pregnancy, or, well, lots of things.
But hey! they’re cheap! Affordable even!
Ok, enough with the sarcasm, here’s where this is headed.
For some unfathomable reason Mitch McConnell and the current Administration think these SkimpyPlans are a great response to the not-hated-any-more ACA. SkimpyPlans are pretty much the only plan offered by the GOP, and they are awful. They are getting hammered in the press as patients find themselves without coverage for needed care, facing tens of thousands in medical bills, stuck fighting faceless bureaucrats in some distant “insurance company” via voice mail.
Sure many are covered by their employers, even that is getting unaffordable for many AND sticking families with big bills.
Then there’s the While Enchilada Plan – an end to paperwork, doctor shopping, copays and deductibles, and all FREE.
Do you see where this is going?
What folks dont seem to realize is Seniors paid for Medicare for years thru FICA taxes. Why should there be Medicare for all? There is not free enteprise which builtthis country: then some of the largest US compnaies are insurance companies. Each state can provide as they have been. Living is not free and yes we can help the less fortunate. All this “free stuff” has got to go.
Hello Diane – thanks for the note. You are correct; Medicare is funded in part by FICA as well as general tax revenues and beneficiary premiums. However those of us still paying FICA and federal taxes are major contributors to the payments for care received by current Medicare beneficiaries.