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exactly, 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
by carterschonwald 17y ago
exactly, 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