Back in late '16, we pointed out that "going bare" had begun to make sense since health insurance had become too expensive to use:
"It might be a ticket to get you into certain medical facilities, but in these days of narrow networks, it will keep you out of others."
Believe it or not, it's gotten worse:
"Obamacare is now so expensive it keeps patients away from their doctors"
And, I would add, their hospitals and specialists, as well.
As Heartland Institute's Justin Haskins points out:
"In a recent survey ... 47 percent of those surveyed said they chose within the past 12 months not to see a doctor or dentist for a routine checkup ... because of the high costs associated with healthcare."
But how could that be; after all, annual physicals are "free."
Well, except for that whole pesky thousands-of-premium-dollars-later thing.
And then there are the non-routine costs, with additional out-of-pockets in the thousands (often tens of thousands) of dollars.
The point, of course, is that the ultimate end-goal of ObamaCare has always been Single Payer; by that metric, these unworldly prices are features, not bugs.
Definitely click through to read the whole thing.
[Hat Tip: FoIB David Fluker]
"It might be a ticket to get you into certain medical facilities, but in these days of narrow networks, it will keep you out of others."
Believe it or not, it's gotten worse:
"Obamacare is now so expensive it keeps patients away from their doctors"
And, I would add, their hospitals and specialists, as well.
As Heartland Institute's Justin Haskins points out:
"In a recent survey ... 47 percent of those surveyed said they chose within the past 12 months not to see a doctor or dentist for a routine checkup ... because of the high costs associated with healthcare."
But how could that be; after all, annual physicals are "free."
Well, except for that whole pesky thousands-of-premium-dollars-later thing.
And then there are the non-routine costs, with additional out-of-pockets in the thousands (often tens of thousands) of dollars.
The point, of course, is that the ultimate end-goal of ObamaCare has always been Single Payer; by that metric, these unworldly prices are features, not bugs.
Definitely click through to read the whole thing.
[Hat Tip: FoIB David Fluker]
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