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0 pointscarterschonwald16y ago0 comments

exactly, the models for the overall cost are based upon a long term savings of TRILLIONS of dollars in treatment costs by making preventative medicine be very very strongly encouraged. There are actually financial penalties in the form of ~2.5% tax on income for those who are not insured, and a 2.5k+ tax penalty per uninsured employee for businesses, and other things on top of that too.

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startuprules16y ago· 1 in thread

Except they have no actual plan on how to 'encourage preventative medicine', and they just agreed on a $940 billion proposal. With the way that corporations run this government, everybody's premium will go up, not down.

Adam50316y ago

Untrue. There's decades of research on better wellness policy in the rest of the world. We're the only ones this is going to be new for.

stretchwithme16y ago

and they are utterly failing to prevent with medicare. so I don't see how magically they will solve all these problems if they can't even manage what they are already responsible for.

15% of medicare spending is lost to fraud apparently. please don't bring these same "efficiency" to the whole system. ugh

on top of this, medicare costs are expected to skyrocket w/ babyboomers starting to retire. one more unsustainable situation brushed under the rug

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