Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by ok_dad on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:35PM
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If I didn’t have healthcare on the Obamacare market today, my special needs son would be without care because I can’t afford his care myself. Furthermore, his healthcare would have been impossible to even get privately because of all that preexisting conditions BS. People like you probably don’t care about anyone else, but ACA is a life saver for so many people.
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Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by jonhohle on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:03PM
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You pay for insurance, which pays for Dr’s insurance, which pays other people absurd amounts for malpractice. If you weren’t having to pay two insurance companies with awfully large buildings, naming rights to stadiums, etc., maybe you could pay for that without government assistance. Somehow people did it successfully for millennia.
Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by dragonwriter on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:21PM
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> Somehow people did it successfully for millennia.
No, they didn't. People with unusual medical needs just died. Heck, people with what we now view as pretty routine medical needs just died.
Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by FireBeyond on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:02PM
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> which pays other people absurd amounts for malpractice
Many states now cap malpractice insurance. Also, malpractice insurance is not as crippling to physicians as some would have you believe.