FredHayek wrote: Imagine the outrage if tens of millions of people lost their health insurance under W?
You don't understand, the current policy was no longer legal undrer Obama care- It lacked some vital consumer protections. And just so you know Fred, youre a consumer. Mine was just replaced by a better and cheaper one.
Millions did lose coverage under Bush .... When part D of medicare was passed by Bush millions of seniors who had private prescription coverage lost it and had to sign up for Medicare part D, which contained a donut hole that cost them thousands.
And tens of millions are being moved to Medicaid, substandard with a dwindling number of suppliers.
And how many have been signed up for ACA? 50,000 after six weeks. How long to sign up hundreds of millions? BTW, some state exchanges still have yet to sign up even one client.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
archer wrote: Millions did lose coverage under Bush .... When part D of medicare was passed by Bush millions of seniors who had private prescription coverage lost it and had to sign up for Medicare part D, which contained a donut hole that cost them thousands.
At least part D is optional, Obamacare is not.
And if one doesn't like the donut hole, they have the option to purchase private insurance to cover it. Yeah, that costs extra, but so did private prescription coverage before part D.
I can't find any offers for supplemental insurance for coverage of the donut hole in part D..... Where did you find it.
And many people, like my mom, pay more for part D than they did for private Rx policy for less coverage. But I sure didn't hear conservatives complaining then. Part D isn't free.
archer wrote: I can't find any offers for supplemental insurance for coverage of the donut hole in part D..... Where did you find it.
And many people, like my mom, pay more for part D than they did for private Rx policy for less coverage. But I sure didn't hear conservatives complaining then. Part D isn't free.
What you hear say conservatives is very selective. Republicans and conservatives are not synonymous.
..."But as bad as November’s rout might have been for the GOP, libertarians and other small-government types are the ones who have taken the real thumpin’ during the last six years. Unfettered Republican control of the federal government has given us a seemingly endless series of hyperactive, unconstrained, and largely ineffective government activities: the No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare drug benefit, record levels of spending, and a foreign policy that, to be charitable, lurches between deadly incompetence and deadly hubris."...