tl;dr: republicans have pushed the CHOICE arrangement act through the house. this act which will push back regulations on “short-term” plans (which biden calls “junk insurance” because of how little they’re required to cover compared to normal healthcare plans) & make them much more widespread. these plans, while cheaper, can often miss very important requirements such as prescription drugs, hospitalization, & mental health care

  •  lemillionsocks   ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 
    16•11 months ago

    Gotta love how the republicans try to make it seem like theyre giving you freedom of choice. If they really wanted to lift the burden of paid insurance companies and offer choice they would offer a public government option to people. Instead theyre offering something that’s essentially just throwing your money away, unless you like get hit by a car and break every bone in your body(even then the likely high deductible and limited network and lack of hospitalization coverage will still bankrupt you).

    It reminds me of the conversation I was having with my family recently about how the big bad NY dems are taking away their CHOICE to use fossil fuels and its like no theyre phasing it out and offering subsidies for people to use alternatives. Theyre requiring new construction to be all electric, and then eventually theyre phasing out being able to buy a new gas furnace over a heat pump(which will also use less energy to run most of the year than your gas stove and also double as central air in the summer). Even then you can still keep and repair what you have it’s just a matter of when it’s finally time to make that expensive replacement you’ll have to replace it with something good.

    Theres also fear mongering about them taking away smokers, grills, and firepits which I cant find anything other than right wing sites mentioning it cause “california did it” but then when I google california they didnt lose their grills either.

    •  chris.   ( @nihilx7E3@beehaw.org ) OP
      9•11 months ago

      Gotta love how the republicans try to make it seem like theyre giving you freedom of choice. If they really wanted to lift the burden of paid insurance companies and offer choice they would offer a public government option to people.

      well said, & exactly what i was thinking when i first saw the headline & saw that this act was called “CHOICE” 🙄 it’s funny how the only time we see the words “freedom” or “choice” in a republican legislation is when they’re trying to take one of those away from us

      Theres also fear mongering about them taking away smokers, grills, and firepits which I cant find anything other than right wing sites mentioning it cause “california did it” but then when I google california they didnt lose their grills either.

      it’s seriously concerning how little the modern republican will do any sort of research before believing whatever article/post they’ll see. the last time i talked to one, i realized that ~75% of their perception of “leftist states” are completely false & just from random articles strewn across the internet. their perception of california is so unrealistic it may as well just be an alternate reality

      •  mnrockclimber   ( @mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
        6•11 months ago

        their perception of california is so unrealistic it may as well just be an alternate reality

        As someone who works in Minneapolis. I totally feel this. We get this too. Apparently we’re supposed to be a burnt out crater of a city where everyone is murdered.

  •  SpaceMonk   ( @SpaceMonk@kbin.social ) 
    11•11 months ago

    If you want to know how bad Republicants are at health insurance look at Rick Scott and his fraud. Such a scumbag. Definitely a white supremacist religious weirdo cultist who believes that humans aren’t supposed to have healthcare because death is natural. You know the kind. Rich religious shit bag type.

    It’s all a death cult.

  •  Melatonin   ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
    8•11 months ago

    Surely it has no hope of becoming law. I guess it’s just a display of what Republican policy promises for the future? Is there anyone who wants the health care marketplace to go away? How would people get coverage?

    •  phobox360   ( @phobox360@lemmy.sdf.org ) English
      7•11 months ago

      It will not become law as long as Democrats hold control of the Senate and/or White House. It’s simply a placeholder for things to come in the event Republicans regain control.

      This bill and those like are objectively problematic for anyone who believes healthcare is a right, not a privilege. It’s also problematic for anyone who currently benefits from protections in the ACA, which is a majority of working class Americans (and a large portion of the Republican voting base). Hence why Republicans won’t tell you what it does, only what they want you to think it does. Cue dog whistle buzzwords like “freedom”, “socialism” and “Obama” to be used incessantly in its marketing to voters.

  •  downpunxx   ( @downpunxx@kbin.social ) 
    7•11 months ago

    sure it would, only if Republicans controlled both the senate and executive like they do the house of representatives. but they don’t, so it has no chance of passing, and articles about it are only meant to signal their supporters, of what might happen if they regain control of both. fuck off with republican propaganda. all the way off.

  •  HubertManne   ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 
    4•11 months ago

    we called in insurance roulete when I was young. Plans only covered catastrophic things. Like being hit by a car. So we did not get it and hope nothing happened since it was otherwise useless. Don’t want to see those days again. They already weakened it by taking out the mandate which the dems have no stomach to fight for and who can blame them. I doubt they will roll over tor this bullshit though.