Shankland's Health Insurance Rhetoric is Just Plain Wrong according to : MacIver Institute

Shankland is just plain wrong - her rhetoric displays her ignorance about the complexities of health insurance - and the timing of her "Republicans want you to die" rant betrays a jaw-dropping lack of judgment. On Facebook, Shankland posted a mock "GOP Health Plan" card reading "In case of emergency: Die quickly." In an effort to save $63.9 million of taxpayer money, the budget committee agreed to direct the state's Group Insurance Board to addConsumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP) options for state employees. No state employee is going to be forced into a health plan they don't want. CDHPs are often paired with tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs) or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs).




Those family members will not be covered under the new LODA health benefits plan and will have to find alternative coverage. But the blessing is now becoming a curse as his wife and stepdaughter will be dropped from his health insurance July 1. A number of LODA beneficiaries' current health insurance plans allowed them to adda spouse or child after the date of their disability. Currently most LODA beneficiaries in Virginia are on different health insurance policies because their health plans are administered through their employers, which in most cases are cities or counties. A change to a Virginia law designed to help people injured in the line of duty is putting first responders' families at risk.

AMA Crippled Alternatives to Current Health Insurance System

After spending decades demolishing these alternative plans, AMA leaders formulated their own health financing model — the insurance company model. That doesn't mean health insurance companies would go away. Moreover, insurance companies have asked their policyholders to follow similar recommendations for decades, and all for not. Consequently, during the 1960s, insurance companies began implementing cost containment measures that, over subsequent decades, evolved to diminish physician autonomy and put insurance companies in the position of managing and directing how medicine is practiced. Bernstein defends the American Medical Association (AMA) for forcing the healthcare system onto the insurance company model, stating, "It's not like you can blame them for this.


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