How's those Healthcare Cost going 4-Yea Trumsters ... ?

Althea said:
So you're in the individual market, as I am.

So tell us...what has trump done to make your premium increases less?
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Not sure but they did increase a lot less last year. For people who get subsidies, however, the elimination of the cost-sharing reduction subsidy helped people get better plans and increased the government pay-in on policies because the increases targeted silver plans only which caused the government pay-in to go up for all plans, thereby allowing more people to shift from bronze to silver or silver to gold plans. Perhaps they are related to why mine went up significantly less than they were going up under obama every year.
 
Nordberg said:
The ACA saved my family. My wife got leukemia and her hospital visits and extremely expensive medicines would have killed us. One medicine, out of her many, Gleevec costs 140 K a year in the US. Got a million in the bank? In 9 years, Novartis has it. We need universal healthcare. You have no guarantee you or a family member will not get a life destroying illness. You can get in an accident. Shit happens. The majority of bankruptcies in America are due to illness and most of them have coverage.
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a few of my wifes meds are expensive as hell also, but tell me something........why should we be forced to pay for such expensive medications when our congress refuses to let other countries import meds in that are cheaper? would it be because of the big pharma connection to their lobbying funds?
 
Nordberg said:
The ACA saved my family. My wife got leukemia and her hospital visits and extremely expensive medicines would have killed us. One medicine, out of her many, Gleevec costs 140 K a year in the US. Got a million in the bank? In 9 years, Novartis has it. We need universal healthcare. You have no guarantee you or a family member will not get a life destroying illness. You can get in an accident. Shit happens. The majority of bankruptcies in America are due to illness and most of them have coverage.
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Commie
 
SmarterthanYou said:
a few of my wifes meds are expensive as hell also, but tell me something........why should we be forced to pay for such expensive medications when our congress refuses to let other countries import meds in that are cheaper? would it be because of the big pharma connection to their lobbying funds?
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Commie
 
SmarterthanYou said:
a few of my wifes meds are expensive as hell also, but tell me something........why should we be forced to pay for such expensive medications when our congress refuses to let other countries import meds in that are cheaper? would it be because of the big pharma connection to their lobbying funds?
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Of course it is. Her Gleevec is 8800 bucks a year in Canada and a generic in India is 400 a year. In America it is 146 K a year. How can we justify that? we cannot. PHARM just wants the billions a drug brings them. The appliance manufacturers are robbing us blind too. Both are taking advantage of the lobbying laws and their ability to pour money into elections via PACs. The America political system is bought and paid for and it is not to the advantage of the people. Our entire medical system is a farce . We pay more than double other countries for worse medical care and millions have none.
 
Nordberg said:
Of course it is. Her Gleevec is 8800 bucks a year in Canada and a generic in India is 400 a year. In America it is 146 K a year. How can we justify that? we cannot. PHARM just wants the billions a drug brings them. The appliance manufacturers are robbing us blind too. Both are taking advantage of the lobbying laws and their ability to pour money into elections via PACs. The America political system is bought and paid for and it is not to the advantage of the people. Our entire medical system is a farce . We pay more than double other countries for worse medical care and millions have none.
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then why do you continue to support a political party that partakes in the lobbying?
 
Althea said:
Remain uninformed. We expect it here.
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pfffft, yes, your sources tell nothing but the truth............/sarcasm

listen, you can continue to lockstep the talking points of the biased media moguls, or you can do your own independent study, but while you continue to do the former, all of your info is corrupt. i'll trust my own info over yours.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
pfffft, yes, your sources tell nothing but the truth............/sarcasm

listen, you can continue to lockstep the talking points of the biased media moguls, or you can do your own independent study, but while you continue to do the former, all of your info is corrupt. i'll trust my own info over yours.
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I've been in the individual market for 40 years. I forgot more about health insurance than you'll ever know.

I don't care what you think of the source I linked. All sources say the same thing.
 
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