Death Panel?

I wonder why the hospital didn't tell them about COBRA. Even if their employer failed to let them know the people at the hospital would be smart enough to know that. Minnesota COBRA (perhaps this is a State item?) is available for 60 days after you receive your notice of benefits. I believe it goes retro to your first day unemployed. So that '90 days after' item shouldn't be an issue. One thing that may be hard is the employee has to pay for all of the coverage. However, that is at the group rate of the ex-employer. So say your employer does a 50% match, your healthcare would double. Expensive, no doubt, if there's no money coming in. If it were me I'd sell a car or something and get my daughter the care she needs.

Though I think most reasonable people will say this is just dumb! Why should employers be responsible for healthcare. It's an individual use. We should have a single payer tax where we all contribute. These sorts of problems wouldn't be an issue. And it'd allow a more mobile workforce. Some of the laws starting in 2014 go part of the way to solve this. Obama's healthcare failure is giving up on single payer.
 
faethor said:
Obama's healthcare failure is giving up on single payer.
Click to expand...

kind of like all those polls that asked about obamacare satisfaction all the while back... if i'd have been asked i would've fallen into the "don't like" category too because he didn't hold out for that...
 
robert l. bentham said:
kind of like all those polls that asked about obamacare satisfaction all the while back... if i'd have been asked i would've fallen into the "don't like" category too because he didn't hold out for that...
Click to expand...
except they (the wackos in congress) were not going to give that to him. I figure he preferred to get Something rather than nothing and that the single payer features could be added at some point. Especially when people start seeing the benefits
 
cecilia said:
except they (the wackos in congress) were not going to give that to him. I figure he preferred to get Something rather than nothing and that the single payer features could be added at some point. Especially when people start seeing the benefits
Click to expand...

my only concern with that is, that private insurers will have their lobbying hooks so deep into washington that it'll be extremely difficult to wrest it from them...
 
robert l. bentham said:
my only concern with that is, that private insurers will have their lobbying hooks so deep into washington that it'll be extremely difficult to wrest it from them...
Click to expand...
yes, I get that. Believe me, I understand that the money grubbers are loath to relinquish anything without a fight.

and fight we must
 
robert l. bentham said:
kind of like all those polls that asked about obamacare satisfaction all the while back... if i'd have been asked i would've fallen into the "don't like" category too because he didn't hold out for that...
Click to expand...
In survey's when people are asked if they 'like' or 'don't like' Obamacare a slim majority said 'don't like'. However, when asked about specific aspects most people were in the like camp. When researchers dug into what 'don't like' means it turned out about 1/3 of that group didn't like Obamacare because it didn't go far enough.

When it came to the public I think Obama could have gone to single play and played it too safe. Though I doubt the necessary voting Dems would have supported it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top