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ACA - Growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharing
Growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharinghttp://pnhp.org/blog/2016/05/20/growing-dissatisfaction-with-higher-premiums-and-greater-cost-sharing/
Todays report confirms the growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharing of not only ACA-compliant non-group plans but also employer-sponsored group plans as well. The share saying that they feel vulnerable to high medical bills has increased to 45 percent for non-group enrollees and 36 percent for those with employer coverage.
One of the most important functions of health insurance is to provide financial security in the face on medical need. In spite of the Affordable Care Act, that security is deteriorating.
The burden of insurance premiums could be greatly reduced by financing the system through equitable taxes based on the ability to pay. The burden of cost sharing could be greatly reduced by adopting a philosophy of pre-paid health care which has worked well in certain integrated health systems and in the health financing systems of many other nations.
Instead of erecting financial barriers to care, cost containment can be achieved through patient-friendly policies characteristic of a well designed single payer system. Lets change direction.
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ACA - Growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharing (Original Post)
Baobab
May 2016
OP
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)2. I wish that the Hillary campaign was willing to address this
But I seriously doubt they will.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)4. They have. They are going to make it worse.
"Expand Obamacare". "The US will never, ever have single payer healthcare".
Gene Debs
(582 posts)3. Wow. Sure didn't see this coming. *sarcasm*
Hydra
(14,459 posts)5. Ya, none of us saw it coming!
Keep cheering! It was the best they could do! Insurance companies needed bailing out too!
JudyM
(29,122 posts)6. It's apparently unimportant enough to the powers that be that the less affluent die from their
illnesses at a greater rate.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)7. 14 years difference
between richest and poorest cohorts
JudyM
(29,122 posts)8. Ooph, really!?