Sunday, November 16, 2025

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

WTF?  “Opt in”? Even on Medicare there’s an “opt in.”

I pay a Medicare premium, AND a supplemental policy premium (to cover the Medicare “doughnut hole “) and a premium for drug insurance.
If you can afford it, you charlatan quack! That was the situation BEFORE the ACA, and now you’re trying to sell that hell as paradise? Why not convince us the price of food is down, too? And that only hardened criminals are being detained and deported.

These are the policies Oz is pushing you towards:
Thanks to efforts by President Donald Trump and the Republican party, Obamacare health subsidies are set to expire this year, leaving millions of people with soaring insurance costs. The Trump administration is suggesting newly abandoned Americans enroll in “short-term” plans as an alternative to plans sold under Obamacare, but unlike most insurance, these plans are not required to cover preexisting conditions or even basic needs such as maternity care and mental health.

Their coverage is so full of holes that five states have banned their sale, according to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. Even some major insurers have questioned whether relying on the short-term plans is a good idea, warning that many consumers could mistake them for comprehensive coverage,” the Post reports.

Nearly half of the plans do not cover outpatient prescription drugs and 40 percent do not cover mental health services, according to KFF, unlike Obamacare-compliant plans. The Washington Post reports there is a reason the Biden administration referred to them as “junk” plans.

Arkansas industrial electronics salesman Robert Hays thought he’d purchased conventional medical insurance, as did retired Wyoming cafeteria worker Essie Nath and Key West chef Martin Liz. The Post reports Hays is now “facing bills of $116,000 for neck surgery required after tweaking his neck while lifting weights.” Nath, meanwhile, suffered heart failure and got bills amounting to $82,000. Liz is dealing with knee replacement bills of more than $100,000.

“These policies are a horrible idea,” said Ken Swindle, an Arkansas-based attorney for Hays. “People think they’re getting comprehensive medical coverage, but they’re not, and they often don’t realize that until it’s too late.”

Chicago-area national health insurance agent Andy Mided told the Post that he has been flooded with calls from Obamacare enrollees who are looking for a cheaper alternative.

“There’s been a huge influx of people asking me, ‘What do I do?’” he said. But now Republicans are using Obamacare subsidy money to pay for the tax cuts in Trump’s 2025 budget bill, so options are limited for many Americans.

Mided said the short-term plans are too risky for his clients. Given their gaps in coverage, he said, “I couldn’t sleep at night if I sold that to somebody.”
Apparently Oz can sleep at night because he’s a sociopath. Seems to be an entry level requirement for employment in this Administration.
  Yesh, it’s all China’s fault. Nobody could have foreseen. 🙄 Don’t blame us, we’re just the guys in charge! And how’s that “let’s import beef from Argentina to lower prices” plan working out? Neither Trump nor Oz got that memo. So, several months from now. Not nearly in time for Xmas dinner, of which coffee ☕️ and bananas 🍌 are such a centerpiece. Ah, yes, the bedrock constitutional principle of the “President’s signature policy” doctrine. I learned about that in law school; more familiarly known as the “King’s ‘X’” doctrine. “Of... 2026; ‘27; ‘28. 2029, at the latest.”
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2 comments:

  1. The Thought Criminal11:18 AM

    Oz is the math challenged idiot wo a couple of weeks ago announced that the fat pill he and RFK and Trump were pushing would lead to Americans losing an average of between 300 and 400 lbs apiece in the next year. He is a frickin' idiot of the kind who makes you afraid of what jerks are allowed to hold a medical license in the US these days. Sort of like wacko Ben Carson was in Trump I.

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  2. Rmj12:02 PM

    We equate intelligence with knowledge, because the latter can be quantified. We should rather emphasize wisdom; but you can’t quantify the ROI on that. (I’m remembering now Brueggemann in Solomon, who bought his (reputation for) wisdom by hiring scholars with the money he made as an arms dealer.)

    It takes a certain intelligence to get through med school. It’s not the same intelligence we commonly mean by “intelligent,” and it certainly isn’t wisdom. I’ve known wise doctors. But they didn’t learn wisdom in school.

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