[–] Cloudrdr 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Every once and a while a blind squirrel stumbles over a nut.
An additional and HUGE incentive for smaller businesses to be thrilled with this is that what had been a Human Resources SINKHOLE, with permanent employees or contracted services, spending hundreds of hours each year 'managing' the company's healthcare.
From analyzing and CHANGING health plans from year to year (which frequently disrupts ongoing care that employees are undergoing) to dealing with Insurance company issues with and between employees and caregivers.
These company expenses will vaporize into simple accounting rules.
BIG benefit for business wrapped into delicious benefits for the employees and the caregivers and probably the insurance companies as well. WIN-WIN-WIN
EXACTLY the kind of thoughtful policy initiatives we would expect from a RATIONAL Businessman.
[–] ScorchedEarthAnon 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
There needs to be a “freedom for mental health act” now that forces mental and developmental health practitioners to accept new patients WITHOUT a referral. I’m having to jump through hoops to get my 5 year old in for services and one extra thing I have to do is take him to his PCP so she can fax a letter of referral. As if she knows anything about his needs - it’s just a forced visit and a $35 copay and a waste of my time. Pisses me off.
[–] grace8 [S] ago (edited ago)
There are only 6 others:
Mexico Becomes First Country to Approve USMCA
-Washington Examiner “Mexico’s Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of approving the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, a deal that would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Zachary Halaschak reports. “[Canadian] Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said last week that Canada would be working ‘in tandem’ with the U.S. in hammering out final passage of the historic trade deal.”
Share: President Trump hosts Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
How Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Helping the Middle Class -The Daily Signal “Steve, it’s almost like a light switch was flicked from off to on the day after the election,” one small business owner says about the effect of the Trump Presidency on his company. Tax reform expert Stephen Moore say that “the economic ramifications [of tax cuts] have been almost universally positive . . . Almost 90% of taxpayers don’t have to itemize their deduction any longer because we doubled the standard deduction.”
🎬 Reagan economist Art Laffer receives Medal of Freedom from President Trump
Ivanka Trump, Wilbur Ross: President Redoubles Efforts to Ensure Good Jobs for All -Salisbury Post “With a record 48 states registering unemployment rates below 5%, President Trump’s economic agenda is paying off,” which means more opportunities for job seekers, Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross write. As of today, the President’s efforts have resulted in more than 250 companies pledging more than 9 million new training opportunities for American workers and students.
🎬 Ivanka Trump in Charlotte: “We are approaching 10 million commitments” Pence Says Maduro ‘Must Go’ as Navy Aids Venezuelan Refugees -The Washington Times
“Vice President Mike Pence called anew for the ouster of Venezuela’s embattled President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, asserting that the socialist leader’s removal is the only way democracy can be restored in the South American nation,” Carlo Muñoz reports. “We are with our neighbors and we will stand with [the Venezuelan people],” the Vice President said.
🎬 Vice President Pence: U.S. compassion “sets sail” with the USNS Comfort Bahrain Workshop on Palestinian Economy is the Opportunity of a Generation -CNN
“This is exciting—an opportunity of a generation. We are grateful to the Kingdom of Bahrain for extending the invitation to [the Trump Administration] to host the June 25 and 26 workshop with them for the benefit of Palestinians and others in the region, offering us a unique opportunity to communicate our economic vision,” White House Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt writes. President Trump’s goal is to present “a realistic resolution and a brighter future for all those burdened with this conflict.”
Hundreds of Migrant Caravan Members Found to Have US Criminal Histories: DHS Files -Fox News
“Hundreds of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the southern border as part of massive migrant caravans were found to have criminal histories in the U.S., according to newly obtained Department of Homeland Security documents,” Brooke Singman reports. One caravan of nearly 8,000 migrants arrived south of California in December 2018. “660 of them had U.S. criminal convictions—with 40 convicted of assault or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and three convicted of murder.”
President Trump Could Revolutionize the Private Health Insurance Market
-The Washington Post “Last week, the White House finalized a rule that allows employers to fund health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) that can be used by workers to buy their own coverage on the individual market,” healthcare expert Avik Roy writes. “Some in Washington want to take health insurance choices away from workers and replace them with the diktats of politicians. The Trump initiative moves in the opposite direction.
Get the damn government out of healthcare and the price of insurance will drop. The health insurance industry is treating your health like a wrecked car. Example: If you crash your car, you call the insurance. The insurance sets up a claim, you pick your car doctor and take in the patient. Next, the repair shop does an examination....estimate writer equals the nurse. Then, the technician looks over the car, looks deeper for damage, which can't be seen from the outside...like exrays and probing the damaged area, looking for where it hurts. The technician/Doctor then makes a list of all the damage not included in the initial exam. A well trained doctor, who nows the steps of each repair procedure and knows that every part he removes to fix the underlying damage has time attached to it...time is money. The dr tech sends the repiar plan up to the blueprint writer (billing specialist/insurance negotiator). The blueprinter send it to the insurance agent. The insurance says...well we're only going to pay you to take this part way off, rather than following ICar industry standards, which instructs the Dr tech on proper repair procedures...but it cost the insurance more and takes the tech more time, as he is actually doing the work in proper order. Problem arises when you have cut rate insurance...they only do set backs on bumpers (take it part way back...ICar never trains the tech to do that) leave in the glass and remove the door handle ( but thats not how they built the door at the factory). I digress...the better insurance compnaies pay the Dr tech for all the work involved in following proper repir procedures. Health insurance is trying to implement the same system of payment for your health care. They have devised all these new codes for every procedure so they can add a price to each step. The smarter human dr's and blueprinters are going to bill the insurance for every item...beacuse there is money on they table, all they have to do is cliam it on the invoice. Major difference is that the repair facility for your car eats what the insurance won't pay and the health insurance rejects it and the bill goes to you. Healthcare prices have doubled since Obamacare if you pay cash. It used to cost $65 to run in if I was ill...now it's 150 for an annual asthma check up and 249 for a well child check. Because the government got involved and took my tax money to pay the insurance companies.
[–] Qdini 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
A head fake. They write horrible stories about him every day. Including one about a fake rape that never happened that we should believe.