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Originally Posted by crockett
Do you not realize the Republicare works the exact same but allows insurance companies the ability to charge a 5 to 1 ratio.. The five being the cost for elderly or high risk will be charged 5 times as much as the lowest..
That most certainly is "raising" the cost. Obamacare currently allows 3 to 1 ratio.
The entire point of large pool Heathcote plans is to spread the cost over lots of peoplease so the prices even out.
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"prices even out"? there is nothing to "even out", if the healthcare of elderly or high risk costs 5x, they should pay 5x... if they actually pay 3x like they did under Obamacare, then it means that someone younger/healthier subsidizes their healthcare to the tune of $1000s/year, which for about half the population doesn't sound appealing at all...
all this subsidizing obscures the core of the problem, that healthcare costs are high, and that the focus of the debate should be on putting measures in place to lower costs rather than discussing how we can fuck some to subsidize others...