But she said it would be a step toward reassuring parents that they could at least buy coverage for their kids. She stressed the importance of having insurance coverage for children, so they can obtain regular care to prevent chronic problems. Petersen wants Iowa to let such parents buy into the Hawk-I program, a government program that already provides subsidized, private health insurance to about 60,000 Iowa children from moderate-income families. Kim Reynolds should not need permission from the Legislature to let Iowa families buy into the Hawk-I program, which is an outgrowth of the Medicaid health-care program for the poor. A different Democratic proposal would let Iowans who lose their private coverage buy into the state's Medicaid program, which like Hawk-I is jointly financed by the state and federal governments.
Trump "$12 a year" health insurance comment perplexes nation.
Donald Trump conducted an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday in which he said some newsworthy things about Robert Mueller, James Comey, and Russia. So Trump's explanation of how the system should/could work doesn't make sense even if you give him the benefit of the doubt on the $12 number. Which you shouldn't. Per a transcript of the interview released by the Times, he also made some perplexing comments about health insurance, namely this riff, which is ostensibly about the political difficulty of eliminating protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions:As others have pointed out, the president seems to be confusing health insurance rates with life insurance rates; life insurance is something you can pay a low rate for when you're young and then reap the benefits from when you're old/dead ("by the time you're 70") without having to pay an insane premium. Of course, 70-year-old Americans in every possible system of American health care—the one that currently exists, the ones that are proposed by Republicans, and the ones that are proposed by Democrats—will be covered by Medicare, not by plans they started to pay into when they were 21.
collected by :Lucy William
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