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From Kaiser Health News today 01/06/2012: 9 States Seek Help For High-Risk Pools From the article: " Some of the states looking for help have served relatively few people. Alaska, for example, had 48
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If You Want To Know Where Health Care $$$$$$$ are going - check this out
posted at January 6, 2012 9:36 AM EST
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From Kaiser Health News today 01/06/2012:9 States Seek Help For High-Risk PoolsFrom the article:"Some of the states looking for help have served relatively few people. Alaska, for example, had 48 people in its pre-existing condition pool as of Oct. 31. It was initially allotted $13 million. Montana had 269 people; it was allotted about $16 million." Now these states are running out of Federal Health care Reform money for this program and with only these few people enrolled in the program. Something has to change!!!!!!! |
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In Response to If You Want To Know Where Health Care $$$$$$$ are going - check this out: From Kaiser Health News today 01/06/2012: 9 States Seek Help For High-Risk Pools From the article: " Some of the states looking for help have served relatively few people. Alaska, for example, had 48 people in its pre-existing condition pool as of Oct. 31. It was initially allotted $13 million. Montana had 269 people; it was allotted about $16 million." Now these states are running out of Federal Health care Reform money for this program and with only these few people enrolled in the program. Something has to change!!!!!!! Posted by GailL1 In Massachusetts, , premiums soared after the state passed a mandate in 2000, in part because of a secret deal between the state’s largest insurer and its largest hospital chain. (Sources: A handshake that made healthcare history. The Boston Globe, December 28) Moving the " risky and the poor" into state plans is that the costs explode, the politicians don't want to provide taxpayer fixes, the price of the insurance premiums rise, and finally the people for whom the plans were devised cannot afford the plans at all. Also, note - would you want neo-con governors making health care insurance availability and coverage decisions. for you ? Coming from someone who actually SOLD insurance-- " We have around 1300 separate pools & healthcare plans when ONE pool would be the least expensive like all the rest of the industrialized countries . |
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Re: If You Want To Know Where Health Care $$$$$$$ are going - check this out
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In Response to Re: If You Want To Know Where Health Care $$$$$$$ are going - check this out: Also, note - would you want neo-con governors making health care insurance availability and coverage decisions. for you ? Coming from someone who actually SOLD insurance-- " We have around 1300 separate pools & healthcare plans when ONE pool would be the least expensive like all the rest of the industrialized countries . The saying goes...Americans will finally do the right thing when they have tried everything else first. Posted by JANMB You do know that HHS has just assigned the states the responsibility to come up with the various levels of the Health Insurance Exchanges provided under Obamacare. Yes, every state has different legislated coverage now - some already had high risk pools already. However, with different regulations in each state and now different ones within Obamacare, it is hard to get them all together without state legislation. Personally, as a free American, I like to choose what I buy for myself - that includes my health insurance and my actual health care. Whomever the actual "PAYER" has the end result in what you get. |
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