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Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - RgrF - 10-07-2010
That's a nice app, thanks 'fil.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - Mac1337 - 10-07-2010
Affordable Care Act? Is that what Obamacare called? So my healthcare premiums got cheaper by +15.6%. I just don't know it.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - RgrF - 10-07-2010
Hey your guys are the ones who sabotaged the bill.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - Mac1337 - 10-07-2010
So after begging for its passage, now you say you didn't want it. OK, you want to repeal it then?
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - mattkime - 10-07-2010
>>OK, you want to repeal it then?
If by "repeal" you mean "go at least twice as far"
then yes, we want it repealed.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - Lux Interior - 10-07-2010
cbelt3 wrote:
Why ? Because nobody knows what will happen.
[...]
And hyperbole and hysteria.. don't forget the hysteria.
Uh-huh.
If you're not part of the solution...
...you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - Mac1337 - 10-07-2010
mattkime wrote:
>>OK, you want to repeal it then?
If by "repeal" you mean "go at least twice as far"
then yes, we want it repealed.
Thanks, I think 15.6% rise is enough for me now. That is at least one dining out for us. Our local restaurant owners thank you.
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - Ted King - 10-07-2010
Bill in NC wrote:
Somebody still has to pay for that 'free' (to the McDs worker) health care.
And eliminating lifetime caps could make it even more expensive:
How will the ACA address those whose disease didn't respond to the fourth round of treatment but still want more even though their doctor(s) wanted to refer them to Hospice months ago?
Does that 'no lifetime cap' force plans to pay for continued treatment when none of the treating physicians think it will have any benefit?
Do we follow evidence-based medicine or give into the hysteria over 'death panels' and end up with a few dozen (breathtakingly expensive) Motl Brody cases a year?
Under the current ACA law, all coverage would be by private insurers (just that more people could not be denied coverage and more would get subsidies to pay for the coverage). I doubt that the private insurers would institute guidelines or protocols that would do the things you are concerned about. Have you heard something to the contrary?
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - btfc - 10-07-2010
"Thanks, I think 15.6% rise is enough for me now"
Yes, I'm sure your rates wouldn't have gone up at all except for the Affordable Care Act.
- Babylon. It's not just an ancient city-state in Mesopotamia. -
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2008/12/health-insuranc.html
' “Since 1976, medical costs have grown by 2,780 percent (over the span of 32 years, an average of 8 percent a year for medical inflation and 4 percent a year for increases in utilization due to age),” '
http://www.kff.org/insurance/h08_7828.cfm
"Impact on Families and Affordability of Coverage
"Families have seen significant increases in out-of-pocket costs in recent years. Since 2000, the average worker contribution for a family health insurance policy has increased 107%, from $1,619 to $3,354. In addition to premium contributions, families may face significant out-of-pocket costs when they seek services. Over the last three years (2006 to 2008), the percentage of workers with coverage in plans with a deductible of at least $1,000 for single coverage has risen from 10% to 18%; for covered workers in small firms the percentage has increased from 16% to 35%."
Re: Follow up to posting about McDonalds health care plan - $tevie - 10-07-2010
When the insurance premiums at our place of business shot up back in the early 00s, our employers did a lot of research and requested proposals and switched companies. Maybe you should find a job where they don't have lazy-ass HR people, Dakota.