When a few million people stood to lose insurance that they liked under former President Barack Obama's healthcare law, it created one of the biggest political crises of his presidency. Now five years later, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a leading presidential candidate, is openly calling for getting rid of private insurance, which currently covers 177 million people. Have politics changed that drastically in just a half of a decade?
Harris made the comments during a CNN town hall style interview in response to a question from Jake Tapper, who pressed her on what her support for national healthcare, which she describes as "Medicare for all," would mean for those who had private insurance that they liked.
"Listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care and you don't have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through all the paperwork, all of the delay that may require," Harris said. "Who of all us have not had that situation where you have to wait for approval and the doctor says, 'I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?'"
She continued, "Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.”
But an effort to "move on" from private insurance would be tremendously disruptive.
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Medicare is an insurance company you dolt! And, you need private supplemental insurance for what Medicare does not cover. Democrats are truly a$$clowns.
ReplyDeleteI have private insurance and have no problems.
I work with people with Medicare and Medicaid (both governemnt run insurances) that cannot get needed surgeries approved. DO NOT BE FULLED BY THESE DEMOCRAT PROMISES. IT IS ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
The answer - Continue medicare for the retired. Medicaid for those who cannot afford insurance with a sliding scale for those who need assistance. End the ACA. Allow groups (churches, non profits, small businesses) form groups to buy insurance. Allow insurance to be purchased accross state lines. People who refuse to buy insurance since there would be no reason not to have make sure they always pay the bill even if wages are garnished for life. Simple solution - but this actually helps the people, but politicians are not about really helping the poeple.
Continued on would be, "so change it to adding 15,000 government employees to screen these policies, and extend the approval process from not just doctor to insurance company, but doctor to federal employees to their departments to the hospital to the doctor.
ReplyDeleteThat won't raise any rates or anything, we promise.
The government has done such a good job screwing up social security and the postal service they deserve a chance to ruin another 12% of the economy.
ReplyDeleteHarris doesn't have to worry about health insurance - they US Government takes care of that. Vote Trump 2020.
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DeleteJust proves once again that the dems don't think when they are playing to their very weird base. Any bill that goes through congress intended to change the way healthcare is administered should include language that abolishes the health plan that federal government workers and congress members have. So that way they can have the same plans as regular Americans.
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