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NOVEMBER 3, 2019 BY SCOTT JOHNSON POWERLINE
WARREN’S IGNORANCE: WORSE THAN WE THINK A knowledgeable reader who asks to remain anonymous writes to comment on John’s post condemning the ignorance of Elizabeth Warren. I’m not sure ignorance is the right word, but our reader follows up on John’s point: Her ignorance is even worse than you think. In the first place nationalization of health insurance affects more than just those purchasing individual or employer-sponsored insurance. Most Medicaid beneficiaries have private sector insurance that they select through state Medicaid programs. UCare is an example in Minnesota. Also, a growing proportion Medicare beneficiaries opt out of regular Medicare in favor of Medicare Advantage. At present, 35 percent of eligible seniors elect private insurance over regular Medicare. UnitedHealth is a leading provider of Medicare Advantage. Moreover, the regular Medicare program is predominantly administered by the private sector. A health care claim processed for a traditional Medicare beneficiary, or a customer service call handled, will almost invariably be through contracts with private sector companies. The contractors are often Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans. So in addition to the effects on private insurance companies serving people under 65 that you think of, the private sector also provides actual coverage or administrative services to a high percent of everyone else. (Btw, I would not like to have to explain to seniors why they will lose the Medicare Advantage plan that they have chosen.) And processing claims and handling calls is a requirement that must be met, and people must be employed, even under Medicare for All. Senator Warren observes that many of those two million people do not work for insurance companies but in hospitals and doctors’ offices. It would be difficult to see how they transition to life insurance. read more |
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Justin Haskins: Warren health care plan would be a devastating national nightmare and harm all Americans By Justin Haskins | Fox News
Far-left Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has marketed herself as the Democratic presidential candidate with a plan for just about everything. She’s right about that, but her incredibly expensive plans would cause enormous harm – especially her dangerous, nightmarish and fantasy-based “Medicare-for-all” plan. If you want to destroy America’s health care system, deprive Americans of choice and timely access to medical care, cause needless deaths, create a gigantic new government health care bureaucracy, and throw an estimated 2 million hardworking Americans in the health insurance industry onto the unemployment rolls – well, you’re in luck, because Warren’s got a plan for that! And despite what Warren claims, her plans nearly always involve gargantuan tax increases, massive new job-killing government regulations, and an alphabet soup of new government agencies and bigger existing ones to move America a step closer to the bankrupt ideology of socialism. Of all the socialist policies and radical redistributionist schemes Warren has backed – and there are many – her “Medicare-for-all” proposal might be the worst, with even many Democrats running for president denouncing it. Warren released her health care plan Friday. Like the “Medicare-for-all” plan by self-proclaimed socialist and fellow presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Warren plan would abolish the private health insurance industry. The Warren plan would throw more than 100 million people off their current employer-sponsored health insurance plan, and put the federal government in charge of just about everything that occurs in the health care system through a variety of new regulations and price controls. As long as you assume government is perfect, never makes mistakes, and is more efficient and cost-effective than the free enterprise system – and assume tax increase have no impact on our economy or family budgets – this is a great plan. However, all those assumptions are false. Under Warren’s proposed system, there would be no health insurance premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. The feds would pick up the tab for the vast majority of health care spending. The total cost? A whopping budget-busting near ly $52 trillion over just the first 10 years according to the Warren campaign – more than double the current national debt. And since the cost estimate comes from Warren, it’s a safe bet to assume the actual cost of implementing WarrenCare would be significantly higher. Warren’s proposal would be disastrous for a laundry list of reasons. Its regulations would stifle innovation. It would ultimately put the federal government, instead of patients and doctors, in control of health care decision-making. And it would make an already dysfunctional and bureaucratic system even more dysfunctional and bureaucratic. The Wall Street Journal reports that independent estimates project that 2 million people could lose their jobs under the Warren plan to outlaw the private health insurance industry. Think about that statistic: an astounding 2 million men and women working hard to support their families, pay their mortgages and save up to send the kids to college losing their jobs thanks to Elizabeth Warren. read more |
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