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A Wisconsin congressman has written a budget cutting proposal that would make deep cuts to Medicaid. I’m low income (it happened after age fifty five) and rely on PCN (preventive care) funded by Medicaid to get prescriptions. I can see a GP physicain for five dollars, fill a generic (up to four a month) prescription. . . . period. No diagnostic and certainly no palliative care is paid for.
ANY insurance company, anyone who insures any goods or services, operates on a ‘shared risk’ model. Their profit (in the US healthcare is strictly for profit) comes from insuring young, low-risk, healthy people who do not make many claims and will not until their latter years. That is socialism in its most strict sense.
People who abhor ‘socialism’ are a mystery to me. All insurance companies socialize risk. I drove on a paved road today that was constructed and maintained by a socialist group. . . the Utah Department of Transportation. I went to school via the socialistic local school system. Later, I taught in that same socialist system.
My cost cutting suggestion is to cut. . . cut off coverage for anyone who smokes. Allow a morbidly obese person six months to show significant weight loss. I would cut premiums for those who embrace a ‘healthy life style.’ A fit person can be identified just by looking; it is also easy to test for aerobic fitness, strength, and flexibility. Those people, whatever their age, should be put in the same low risk pool as the young. I would then be able to afford the type of coverage I have had in the past.
BTW, The human services slashing congressman advocates increases in ‘defense’ (WAR) spending.
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