25% equals Fail : Understanding The health Care Bill
Please talk to you congress critters and tell them that the plan they are voting on is critically flawed.
#1 It more tightly ties health insurance to employment. Since the average time any American spends on a job is only 4 years there is no benefit for health insurance to keep the person healthy for a lifetime, which is the only hope to reduce cost in the long term and improve service (like in the VA)
#2 In a world where the median healthcare spending is about $700 per person (that means 50% of the people in the country use less than $700 of medical services a year). Its unconscionable that everyone will be required by law to spend 8 to 12% of their income on health insurance before they get government help to purchase health insurance.
#3 It unconscionable that the federal government will pass an unfunded mandate by increasing the number of people on Medicaid without having long term federal funding solution to this huge increase for state's budgets.
#4 But the biggest fail of this monstrosity is that after all of this spending. 18 million American still wont have health insurance. Since they say 40 million don't have insurance now. Only 22 million will get insurance (mainly because of mandate details below)
http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/Reports/05/uninsured-cps/index.htm#income
As you can see 17% of the uninsured are 400% of more of the poverty level who wont get any government aid to purchase insurance. So the mandate alone adds 10 million more insured. So everything else only insures 12 million more people. At a cost of about 200 billion a year. Which is $16,666. per extra insured person per year.
(Just to clarify it doesn't cost $16,666 a year to purchase health insurance of a person in the individual market).
10 million extra insured out of 40 million uninsured today is 25% more insured. 25% by any measure is failure.
Tell congress to try again.
#1 It more tightly ties health insurance to employment. Since the average time any American spends on a job is only 4 years there is no benefit for health insurance to keep the person healthy for a lifetime, which is the only hope to reduce cost in the long term and improve service (like in the VA)
#2 In a world where the median healthcare spending is about $700 per person (that means 50% of the people in the country use less than $700 of medical services a year). Its unconscionable that everyone will be required by law to spend 8 to 12% of their income on health insurance before they get government help to purchase health insurance.
#3 It unconscionable that the federal government will pass an unfunded mandate by increasing the number of people on Medicaid without having long term federal funding solution to this huge increase for state's budgets.
#4 But the biggest fail of this monstrosity is that after all of this spending. 18 million American still wont have health insurance. Since they say 40 million don't have insurance now. Only 22 million will get insurance (mainly because of mandate details below)
http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/Reports/05/uninsured-cps/index.htm#income
As you can see 17% of the uninsured are 400% of more of the poverty level who wont get any government aid to purchase insurance. So the mandate alone adds 10 million more insured. So everything else only insures 12 million more people. At a cost of about 200 billion a year. Which is $16,666. per extra insured person per year.
(Just to clarify it doesn't cost $16,666 a year to purchase health insurance of a person in the individual market).
10 million extra insured out of 40 million uninsured today is 25% more insured. 25% by any measure is failure.
Tell congress to try again.
posted by Scott at 10:35 AM
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