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i haven& #39;t much addressed Biden& #39;s healthcare plan b/c, 1, he hardly offers it; 2, what he does offer is so stupid that analyzing it feels like playing poker against a dog. his is a plan with no new or useful ideas, no fix for what& #39;s broken, no relief, no vision, no hope, no future
Anyone who tells you that Biden& #39;s healthcare plan is worth an ant& #39;s fart either is getting paid to say so, thinks you& #39;re stupid, or has the mental fortitude of a goldfish. Or, likely, all three.
There are two core issues in US health finance: cost & coverage. Biden offers no plans whatsoever as far as containing cost--his is weaker than even Buttigieg--and his campaign estimate is that he can cover 98% of Americans. Covering 98% is like playing a sidekick in your dreams.
Even his public option is born to lose: he won& #39;t commit to letting it negotiate at Medicare prices, instead saying it& #39;ll negotiate "like how Medicare does." Horse shit. Vague, empty nonsense -- all to benefit the healthcare corporations whose stocks shot up after Super Tuesday.
I& #39;m sorry, I misspoke. Biden claims he can cover 97% of Americans. That leaves 10 million people, more than the population of NYC, uninsured.
Biden& #39;s wild healthcare fantasy includes "capping" a person who makes $50,000& #39;s healthcare premiums at $4300 a year. That& #39;s just the admission fee--that doesn& #39;t include any of the costs of actually _using_ that insurance plan.
Biden& #39;s byzantine "premium-free public option," designed to replace Medicaid expansion, contains a paradox: you can& #39;t automatically enroll someone in something if you have to means-test them first. If it were that easy, Medicaid/CHIP would have perfect enrollment.
Similar to the 400% FPL capping plan are Biden& #39;s measures for "cost reduction." Again, each of these focuses on premium costs--the fee for getting insurance, not using it or seeking healthcare. I have to wonder if Biden even knows the difference between a premium and a deductible
In fact, I doubt Biden knows how _any_ of this works. A public option that takes the hit whenever someone gets sick, but which reaps none of the benefits of having a broad, healthy patient base, is exactly how you build a public option that dies at birth. https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1235714429850988545">https://twitter.com/AllOnMedi...
Out-of-network billing is as much an _insurer_ problem as it is a _provider_ problem. Networks are built by insurers! If you& #39;re going to compel a hospital to charge a lower rate to a person who isn& #39;t insured, why not use that power to cost-set across the market? Stupid
You simply cannot claim that healthcare is a right for all people if you don& #39;t have a plan to make sure all people are covered. Biden& #39;s not even pretending his plan will try to attain universal coverage.
The thing about healthcare costs is that they& #39;re transient. Some years you get hit by a car or fall off a ladder or have a complicated pregnancy and have huge medical costs. Some years you don& #39;t. We all take our turn dancing in the fountain of misery
Some years you get so sick you have to choose between staying alive or going into debt. Some years you& #39;re just unlucky. Some years you& #39;re one of Biden& #39;s 10 million uninsured.
Biden& #39;s healthcare plan is asking us all to bank on the idea that we& #39;re all going to be the lucky ones forever--and offers no relief to us when we, inevitably, fall into the pit. It is not a plan. It is a gambler& #39;s desperate fantasy.
Biden& #39;s healthcare plan, with its fixation on deductibles and refusal to address the costs of actually using healthcare, wouldn& #39;t even prevent him from nearly needing to sell his own house when his son got cancer in the early Obama years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/12/joe-biden-barack-obama-money-house-beau-family">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
