Comments on: Will Red States Start Running Their Own Obamacare Exchanges?

By: db

db — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:23:14 +0000

Michale,

Tort Reform is a a buzz word. Ask instead why the Medical Profession continues to protect Doctors who malpractice. I figure I recall is that 90% of the malpractice claims are produced by 5% of the Doctors.

I agree that State boundaries are & ought to be irrelevant for the purposes of obtaining insurance (of any type)

"Will state exchanges allow Americans to keep their doctors and keep their plans, as Obama promised???"

Yes, unless those policies don't meet minimum requirements for coverage. Or if the Insurance Company decides not continue writing such policies.
Individual Doctors can retire or otherwise refuse to be part of the system as well.

If you ask me, (& you didn't) the cost of Medical School is a major flaw in the Health Care System. A quarter million in student loan debt will affect anyone's perspective.

By: Michale

Michale — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:49:17 +0000

Will state exchanges allow Americans to keep their doctors and keep their plans, as Obama promised???

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:46:10 +0000

i agree, running the exchanges on the state level would make a lot of sense.

Eliminating state boundaries for insurance makes even more sense..

Tort reform makes the most sense of all..

But that intrudes on the Dem Party promises to trial lawyers...

Musn't piss off the lobbyists...

Remind me again how Dems differ from Republicans??

Michale

By: michty6

michty6 — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:45:33 +0000

And not just "small" in terms of budget matters, but that local governments are the best, followed by state governments, and that the worst government is federal. I don't believe any serious Republican would contradict those statements -- they've long believed this to be true Meh I wouldn't read too much into this. The entire Republican agenda is a complete paradox: 'Killing is bad! But guns are cool! But abortion is evil! But the death penalty is cool! But killing foreigners is cool! etc Or the most recent: 'Obamacare is too long, the bill is massive, so much bureaucracy'... What did they ask for in the budget deal? MORE bureaucracy in Obamacare (verification of income)! Trying to apply logic and reason to irrational, insane people is an insane act in itself...

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:04:08 +0000

David (2):
I'm starting to get fundraising emails etc. from Ed Fitzgerald's campaign -- what do you think of him? Will he do better than Strickland? (I liked Strickland - except for legalizing gambling) but I didn't feel that he'd grasped the tenor of the times during his last run.)

By: nypoet22

nypoet22 — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:57:24 +0000

i agree, running the exchanges on the state level would make a lot of sense. but would you be constrained to buy only from the exchange in your own state?

By: akadjian

akadjian — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:44:44 +0000

Ohio ... yes!

Even Kasich recently went around his own base recently (in a rather drastic fashion) to support Medicare expansion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/21/ohios-new-medicaid-expansion-could-cover-330000-people/

I think his belief is that people will see him as moderate. He is doing this because he is in a virtual statistical tie with Ed Fitzgerald.

-David

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:02:58 +0000

I hope Ohio will be one of the first examples (although I don't think of Ohio as a red state - it teeters back and forth. Call it purple.) Hopefully Kasich will go down in 2014 and if a Dem comes in it would be great if he/she would handle the exchange as originally intended. And that would be a lovely trend.