{"id":6739,"date":"2009-09-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2009-09-01T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:00:07","slug":"a-health-care-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6739","title":{"rendered":"A Health Care Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a little thing I found in a health care reform proposal called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/ryan\/PCA\/PCAsummary15p.pdf\">\"Patients Choice Act of 2009\"<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Affordable premiums.<\/b> Under the status quo, plans offering coverage to individuals often charge exorbitant premiums. The Patients\u2019 Choice Act solves this very real problem through a model that works in several European countries: independent risk-adjustment among insurance companies. A non-profit, independent board would penalize insurance companies that cherry pick healthy patients while rewarding companies that seek patients with pre-existing conditions. This solution would ensure health insurers compete based on superior products and the lowest price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds good, right.<\/p>\n<p>Let me highlight a couple of things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Affordable premiums.<\/b> Under the status quo, plans offering coverage to individuals often charge exorbitant premiums. <b>The Patients\u2019 Choice Act solves this very real problem through a model that works in several European countries<\/b>: independent risk-adjustment among insurance companies. <b>A non-profit, independent board would penalize insurance companies<\/b> that cherry pick healthy patients while rewarding companies that seek patients with pre-existing conditions. <b>This solution would ensure health insurers compete<\/b> based on superior products and the lowest price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That should make it pretty obvious how this one would be attacked by health care reform opponents. Assholes. This is another reason we can't have nice things.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one more thing: this is a Republican proposal. Yes, that's right; it's a plan based on a European system, with government making health care decisions, and it was written by Republicans who presumably now know to hate all of those things.<\/p>\n<p>Run it back, bitches.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4J8mqFsHM3g&hl=en&fs=1&\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4J8mqFsHM3g&hl=en&fs=1&\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a little thing I found in a health care reform proposal called the \"Patients Choice Act of 2009\": Affordable premiums. Under the status quo, plans offering coverage to individuals often charge exorbitant premiums. The Patients\u2019 Choice Act solves this very real problem through a model that works in several European countries: independent risk-adjustment among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}