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Subsidies on premiums. In exchange, on top of the healthcare for everyone, we'll hopefully reduce current costs (for those who are covered by medicare) for las
by lallysingh 17y ago
Subsidies on premiums. In exchange, on top of the healthcare for everyone, we'll hopefully reduce current costs (for those who are covered by medicare) for last-minute emergency care by earlier diagnosis and treatment.
- carterschonwald 17y agoexactly, the models for the overall cost are based upon a long term savings of TRILLIONS of dollars in treatment costs by making preventative medicine be very very strongly encouraged. There are actually financial penalties in the form of ~2.5% tax on income for those who are not insured, and a 2.5k+ tax penalty per uninsured employee for businesses, and other things on top of that too.
- startuprules 17y agoExcept they have no actual plan on how to 'encourage preventative medicine', and they just agreed on a $940 billion proposal. With the way that corporations run this government, everybody's premium will go up, not down.
- Adam503 17y agoUntrue. There's decades of research on better wellness policy in the rest of the world. We're the only ones this is going to be new for.
- stretchwithme 17y agoand they are utterly failing to prevent with medicare. so I don't see how magically they will solve all these problems if they can't even manage what they are already responsible for. 15% of medicare spending is lost to fraud apparently. please don't bring these same "efficiency" to the whole system. ugh on top of this, medicare costs are expected to skyrocket w/ babyboomers starting to retire. one more unsustainable situation brushed under the rug