because of COVID 19 is fully covered for hospitalization, ambulatory care, lab tests and prescription drugs with no yearly or lifetime caps. That’s about 8.5 million in the individual market and who knows how many in the group market.
12 days in the hospital because of COVID 19 is the average time. That cost $30,000-all covered.
Who isn’t covered? Well, that would be anyone who wanted “more choices” and bought a Trump junk insurance policy which is a hell of lot cheaper than an Obamacare policy bc it is not required to cover essential health benefits. That’s about 1.3 million.
But wait the new law will at least cover covid testing during the emergency period, right? Nope, not if you bought a Trump policy:
Coronavirus testing – The new law passed by Congress requires all group health plans and individual health insurance coverage to cover testing and associated visits related to the diagnosis of the COVID-19 during the emergency period.
This new law will not apply to some types of private coverage sold to individuals. For example, regulations issued by the Trump Administration in 2018 promote the sale of short-term policies that are not required to cover EHB.
• The Administration estimated an additional 1.3 million people would be enrolled in short-term policies in 2020 as a result of this regulation.
Another brilliant Trump initiative brought to you by the man who is “protecting those with pre-existing conditions” as he lied in his SOC speech.
But wait, Trump got the big health insurers to promise to cover covid treatment anyway, right?
No, he lied about that too. They will cover testing, not treatment.
But hey – damn that Obamacare – the roll out wasn’t smooth, you can’t keep your doctor, and it cost a lot more. For me, I want more choices - even if they are really bad ones.
I purposely made my OP, and secondary post, NON political to set up the two idiots who responded before you!
I merely pointed out good news about the horrifying predictions we were getting just days ago and I knew Laffy and BigPOS would step in the dog shit, as they just cant help themselves to dump all over good news for the U.S. bc they are scared to death it could help Trump.
But YOU stepping in that same pile of poop should really make you reconsider your life. LOL
Tell me...does Obamacare cover a TDS test? If it doesn't, I'll pay for yours! LMAO
#NextTimeTryAndBeBetterThanLaffyAndBigPOS
that celebrate every time more deaths are announced "on Trump's watch." Whoo-hoo!
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Today, I hear that the United States has more cases than any country in the world. Gov Cuomo – a real leader – talks of 40 to 80% of the population being infected. We don’t know what percentage will need to be hospitalized but we can guess it will exceed available hospital beds.
Who is going to pay for all those hospitalizations? The government? No…drum roll….Obamacare through the private insurers, the insureds who pay premiums and deductibles, and the health care industry through taxes.
Those 1.3 million who bought Trump health insurance –aka flushing your money down the toilet – they are fucked-they missed the enrollment for this year-too late to get religion. Even more ironically, those who get sick will not even be able to renew a standard Trumpcare policy without breaking the bank- you have to pay more for pre-existing conditions and they do not get subsidies.
If we hit even the low range projected by Gov Cuomo, you will hear people saying “Thank God for Obamacare.” Well, except for you and GaGambler, whom I can picture walking around saying “but you can’t keep your doctor, it costs as much as I spend on hookers each month, and the roll out wasn’t smooth….waah.”
And btw if you think Obamacare is expensive this year, wait till you see the premiums for next year. It’s called market based underwriting.
