[quote=spdrun]BTW, Trump may want to INCREASE subsidies. He’s stated that he wants to allow individuals to deduct premiums from their income taxes, which sounds like a tax CREDIT for the full amount of the insurance, not a deduction. (There’s already a self-employed insurance deduction from income.)
AFAIK, that’s basically what the subsidy is, except that it doesn’t cover the full cost. Semantics 101.[/quote]I like that idea because the people who pay higher premiums (from the state pool offerings because they have pre-existing conditions) get bigger tax credits. As it should be. And the rest of us should be vetted. I’m standing by to submit to a physical exam by the provider of choice of my new carrier if we can just get some major carriers back into this state who will offer PPO plans on the open market.
We should ALL be priced according to risk. This gives an incentive for the 300-lb smoker to lose weight and stop smoking and the alcoholic to get help before their liver is gone and their lives have been severely shortened.
In addition, females should not be paying for expensive “maternity care” coverage if they are sterilized or past the age of menopause (or both). I hate being charged for this. It is ridiculous and no one was around to subsidize MY premiums when I was of childbearing age.
