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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 03:41 PM
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2. Yet we call these Cadillac plans and luxuries.
Difficult insurance companies and all their rules might be obstacles to lower costs not the solution.
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  -Could higher co pays and deductibles influence bad decision making? dkf  Jan-10-10 03:30 PM   #0 
  - knr. Yes. High co-pays and deductibles are a HUGE deterrent to obtaining  nightrain   Jan-10-10 03:35 PM   #1 
  - Yet we call these Cadillac plans and luxuries.  dkf   Jan-10-10 03:41 PM   #2 
     - hmmm... my understanding is that "Cadillac" plans have lower deductibles and copays though...  nightrain   Jan-10-10 04:09 PM   #3 
        - Well that is the general assumption which makes people interested in taxing them for being too  dkf   Jan-10-10 05:13 PM   #4 
           - I hadn't heard what Dean said about wrong path. High costs seem to have  nightrain   Jan-10-10 05:21 PM   #6 
           - If you're paying $23,000 for group insurance and still paying copays and deductibles,  bornskeptic   Jan-10-10 07:40 PM   #10 
  - Which is why the HCR bills LIMITS co-pays and deductibles.  johnaries   Jan-10-10 05:19 PM   #5 
  - Preventive care is free under reform, the co-pay is eliminated. n/t  ProSense   Jan-10-10 05:21 PM   #7 
  - Preventive care is checkups. I imagine going to the doctor with a suspected ailment is different.  dkf   Jan-10-10 05:51 PM   #9 
  - It has always been a fact that such policies allow for the poorer folks to  truedelphi   Jan-10-10 05:25 PM   #8 
 

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