(10-17-2019 01:17 PM)Claw Wrote: I strongly oppose the concept of health management accounts. It is not necessary to give the government control of my money to get a tax benefit. No. Simply no. I want freedom for my money. I have no intention of giving the government control of how I spend my money to save a few dollars on my taxes.
Not just no.
Hell no.
These accounts exist today for state and federal employees and in many corporations. They are not mandatory. What they do benefit are those with chronic illnesses and those facing major costs for possibly terminal illnesses.
I would doubt that in this bill, or plan, that they would be mandatory. Tackling the pharmaceutical loopholes is a huge plus, as is permitting the purchase of insurance across state lines. Capping frivolous law suits against doctors (actually their insurers) would also be a huge plus.
The existing laws, like so many of our problems, are a collusion between lawyers who profit by all of this, and big medical corporations like the pharmaceutical industries, who rake in huge profits from the pricing structure even though they sell their products abroad at a much reduced rate. So our companies are raping the citizens of the U.S. and playing sweetly with everyone else, which is a direct result of their lobby in Washington.
The whole affordable care act was nothing more than a boon sweetheart deal to insurers after they helped to bailout the libor crisis of 2007-8. It got them off the hook for payouts at a time when Boomers were hitting retirement age.
At least this plan relieves the system where the issues are, at the doctor's level, and at the patient's level. Restore that and the quality of healthcare goes up.
Hell the HIPAA laws were just a cover for a myriad of new charges to the patient not the least of which is the charge for your provider to retrieve your own damned records.
I hope they do put this forward.