States aim to sell Affordable Care Act’s changes to young, healthy Americans

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RACJ said:
The bunk beds that young people have constructed with their own ill-informed votes is about to collapse, with all of them lying on the bottom mattress. 🤷 Rob
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Or to steal a line from someone semi-famous, “The chickens (of the low information voters) are coming home to rooooooooooooost”
 
zz912 said:
Now here is the thing, look at these prices a decade from now. The prices for these new procedures will be greatly reduced. Expensive equipment will have had a chance to recoup costs, technology will get better, and other innovations will make it cheaper. What you are seeing in vet medicine is how LASIK looked when it first came out. The surgery was tens of thousands of dollars. Now LASIK is pretty cheap, couple thousand or so. You will see the same in vet medicine.
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Could very well be. But wasn’t it the government which funded laser research back in the 60’s? (Not to mention satellite technology which later was sold to the privates?) I’m pretty sure Bank of America didn’t launch the first satellite. Just sayin.
 
zz912 said:
What you also see are price-pressures from areas where the govt IS interfering in the market, such as insurance mandates, and Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare.
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FWIW, it seems state regulators have and will have more to say about premiums, reserve requirements, etc. more than the federal government in these areas. It’s the Republican idea of buying across state lines which would have prompted the feds’ oversight in these matters.
 
ProVobis said:
FWIW, it seems state regulators have and will have more to say about premiums, reserve requirements, etc. more than the federal government in these areas
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You are absolutely correct. And state governments can also interfere; it’s not limited to the federal government.

This explains wildly different rates for similar people in different states.

But the whole thing of mandated coverage is a huge pain. Why should we all have to cover someone’s very nice 28-day vacation that they get as a result of their own stupidity? I am sure there would be cheaper and shorter options if the 28-day stay were not covered… And I read recently: 5! They get to do it again and again and again and again.

In the meantime maternity coverage is separate, and if you don’t get it and you have a child born with a birth defect, it is treated as a pre-existing condition…

Ok, I’m sorry I will get off my soapbox now…
It’s the Republican idea of buying across state lines which would have prompted the feds’ oversight in these matters.
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I was always against that idea. However, the feds stepped in anyway, didn’t they?
 
St_Francis said:
An MRI for a dog or cat costs from half to 2/3 the cost for a human, despite the fact that animals need an additional veterinary person to do the anesthesia and a specialized machine for it. IOW, altho the costs are considerably higher for an animal MRI, the price is considerably lower.

As to dental, Medicare and Medicaid cover dental and orthodontics, so they are also affected by the government activity in that area.
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Could part of the reason be that dogs and cats never sue for emotional distress and punitive damages when the outcome is not what they hoped for? ACA does nothing about tort reform except to make it more difficult by layering federal regulations on top of state regulations.
 
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