Breaking: ACA Not Repealed.

BigV · 03-26-2017, 01:50 PM

My point being that single payer is not an absolute exclusion of market based insurance. They can and do co-exist.

It's not the either-or socialist armageddon proclaimed by haters.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-26-2017, 01:53 PM

So was mine, they do coexist. Quite smoothly most of the time.

glatt · 03-27-2017, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Quite smoothly most of the time.

My experience as well, when I was helping my elderly cousin. You do get buried in mailed statements though, telling you what is not your responsibility to pay.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-27-2017, 01:08 PM

Oh yes, every month I get a statement of what drugs I bought, what they paid, what I paid, and some of the price is never explained. I guess that's what the druggist is eating. The purpose is supposedly for us to report to Aetna if the druggist is charging for shit we don't get. the last page(both sides) explains they don't discriminate, in a zillion languages, every damn month.

This morning I went to my GP, that cost $5. He sent me to the phlebotomist, no charge, and down to X-ray, $5. That's it , everything else is covered. Last three times in the hospital, one in ER, and two for surgery, it cost me $2 to park for four days. I can live with that.

03-26-2017, 01:50 PM	#1
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	My point being that single payer is not an absolute exclusion of market based insurance. They can and do co-exist. It's not the either-or socialist armageddon proclaimed by haters. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

03-26-2017, 01:53 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	So was mine, they do coexist. Quite smoothly most of the time. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-27-2017, 01:08 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Oh yes, every month I get a statement of what drugs I bought, what they paid, what I paid, and some of the price is never explained. I guess that's what the druggist is eating. The purpose is supposedly for us to report to Aetna if the druggist is charging for shit we don't get. the last page(both sides) explains they don't discriminate, in a zillion languages, every damn month. This morning I went to my GP, that cost $5. He sent me to the phlebotomist, no charge, and down to X-ray, $5. That's it , everything else is covered. Last three times in the hospital, one in ER, and two for surgery, it cost me $2 to park for four days. I can live with that. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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