ImmortalYawn / Land.Of.Nod. / Wait, so your new UHC involves forcing everyone to take out private insurance instead of just giving tax-funded public insurance to everyone for free?

America Actually Does Nothing, Perpetuates Broken System, Manages to Continue to Demonize Universal Healthcare While Further Enriching Insurance Companies, Rest of World Nonplussed

Some negatives:

-mandates everybody buy private health insurance

-not put caps on premium prices, with the only regulations of premium pricing being a committee that will investigate whether or not rate increases were “unfair.” States already have boards like these set up and in case you haven’t noticed, they’re never used.

-bans states from setting up real, universal systems if that’s what they want until 2017

-understanding that private health insurance just costs so much dang money (shucks, not like there’s anything we can do about it, though ), the federal government will give households within 300% of the Federal Poverty Line (yeah, some pretty expensive shit!) subsidies to help pay for this wildly expensive private health insurance they totally have no way of controlling costs of. This means that money will be collected from taxpayers and given right back to the taxpayers to be given to the insurance industry. In short: shoveling money right into the insurance industry’s pockets. And since there’s no meaningful control on premiums in place, guess what happens if premiums soar? So do subsidies and their profits!
-not allow drug re-importation, meaning prescription drugs will still be super expensive

-not allow for a public option, meaning people who want a government-run program that wouldn’t be funded by anybody NOT inside the program, meaning if you weren’t in it you weren’t funding it, doesn’t exist – which could have helped set up competition for private insurance companies