Hmmm. That's the first I've heard of "govt-approved insurance exchanges" ......
From The (actual) Plan, page 44:
Save Medicare for current and future generations while making no changes for those in and
near retirement. For younger workers, when they reach eligibility, Medicare will provide a
Medicare payment and a list of guaranteed coverage options from which recipients can choose
a plan that best suits their needs. These future Medicare beneficiaries will be able to choose a
plan the same way members of Congress do. Medicare will provide additional assistance for
lower-income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks.
Page 45:
This budget *** ends the raid on the Medicare trust fund that began with passage of the new health care law last
year. *** It ensures that any potential savings in current law go to shore up Medicare, not to pay for new
entitlements. In addition to repealing the health care law’s new rationing board and its unfunded long-term care
entitlement, this budget stabilizes plan choices for current seniors.
(*** Obamacare takes 500 billion dollars out of Medicare to fund itself, keeping in mind these are imaginary dollars we don't have.)
Oy. *sigh*
Page 44 is saying 55 and over things stay as they were before ObamaCare. Those under 55 will have options of choice like Congress. I've always heard Congress had the best.
That's
Congress, and currently. That's legislation written to
favor 535 people with regulations mandating what medical insurers
must offer them in terms of choices, i.e. "Cadillac "Health" Plans", for which choices
we pay the lion's share.
Some of these same Ruling Class are now going to decide for
millions what choices
we may have by picking winners in the medical insurance market, via approved pools, from which to choose? They're going to decide what "benefits" are to be included/excluded for me and you and him and her and them? That's virtually no different from what happens now in various States and what Obamacare mandates.
Why not trust in the market to respond rationally to millions of retiring seniors with $8K (Fed subsidization figure bandied about) to spend on medical plans by offering choices to meet their needs and wants
according to them? Why not let Catastrophic Plans develop in the market and remove governmental roadblocks to Health Savings Accounts and let people run their own affairs?
Page 45 is creating a new system whereby monies withheld from paychecks or paid in will actually go into an account that cannot be used as politicians petty cash box.
Yeah, yup, sure. Sez who? New system. Right. New boss, same as the old boss.
Are we close to the same page?
Well, we read the same page(s); I've a feeling we differ on our reactions.