Page 26 - Risk Pool News Today

Those are special interests who agreed to be taxed in order to have health reform. theyre not even asking for their money back yet the republicans are insisting they take the money back. when you give away a trillion dollars, you have less money to insure people. thats why the cbo is saying there will be 14 million people without health insurance. thats not what i think republican voters have really been asking for. >> what do you think theyve been asking for? because thats the complexity here. ...

Malady pay for that, they will pay through the roof and you dont spread the risk pool. so the understanding is that certainly in every other developed nation in the world, everybody has coverage for everything, which means insurance company would only ever have to pay an absolute maximum 50% for people who have maternity needs because women are 50% of the population. lets say this got taken out. if youre a woman under the age of 40 and you now do not get health care because youre a woman and bec...

Under obamacare every policy sold to a woman also covers prostate cancer. thats the point, were all paying for each others risks which is supposed to bring premiums town. you heard sean spicer say premiums have only gone up under obamacare. thats absolutely false. premiums have been going up for decades. the rate of increase for the last five years, obamacare has been with us for seven, the last five years is substantially slower. the only way to bring premiums down is increase risk pool by gett...

Risk pool. two-thirds or three quarters of americans get that. when my company, comcast, we all buy it. so its a risk pool. >> and we can create risk pools in the states. if we allow states to manage in this manner -- thats going to necessarily broaden the pool and get at that lower cost of a risk pool. >> other than a mandate or tax credit, how do you incentivize people to join an insurance program? >> you keep things people like. people dont want to be denied for preexisting coverage and you g...

Around. a man wont have to buy something that includes marnitcoverage. whats wrong wh that? >> so, ali covered it really nicely by covering the risk pool. its really important to remember that you could try to say, well, we could shop around and get lower plans. this is exactly what we had before 2010 when youll remember that people shopped around and actually got plans that had barely any coverage. and then when they really need haesh health care, because we can never predict when we need healt...

Risk pools, if you have a bunch of people with very serious medical problems in a high risk pool, how are we going to pay for that? >> thats great question. we have a member of the rnc, the steering committee, who put together hopefully a last-minute package that includes help for there. primarily, this covers the rising costs of a 54 or 64-year-old that allows them to customize or tailor their specific program. >> congressman young got $16 million from a super pac run by paul ryan for the 2016 ...

Offer these to everyone they can offer them to people who want it. people who think they want to get pregnant. >> thats quite a few people. >> thats my point. its quite a few people. the point is under obamacare, i have to pay for insurance that covers all these things. so it has to cover rehab even if i dont think im involved in anything in a needs rehab. has to cover matern even show the likely mood of my getting pregnant is low. thats the point of whole thing, it is a risk pool. so the likeli...

Baby. put that aside. the concept is risk pooling. it to take expenses which for any one person would be crippling and spread them over the whole population on the theory that anybody can get sick, anybody can be born a man or woman or a boy or a girl and what youre saying is we all pay into this risk pool and all share it, it affordable for everybody over the corse of their life time rather than saying, gee, youre going to have a baby, youre going to have to pay for that. you have someone in yo...

This actually put more power in the hands of families so they can make the health care decisions at affordable costs to buy the plan they want. >> how do you make it cheaper for people if you take the healthy people out of the pool? thats what the mandate was. they didnt throw it in there because they forced people to buy things they didnt want. you force the young people in and that makes a company reduce its cost, reduce what its going to charge you, because what the risk pool is, what is the ...

Telling telling us the opposite. guaranteed issues pretty much already baked in the cake. we do change community rating, when obamacare did, this gets a little wonky. theyre basically going to have young, healthy people subsidize older, less healthy people. it will work if we force them to buy this stuff. thats not working. the individual mandate is not working. people are taking the penalty and exchange, and therefore, this is death of spiraling. its basically failing and insurers are pulling o...