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RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim."

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My vote for the second, incredibly stupid and terminally worthless, Cabinet member to be impeached. [Hegseth, the incompetent and deranged warmonger, first].

Right the essence of insurance: no claim - no coverage. Maybe they should confiscate money, stocks of billionaires just sitting on their accounts.

That’s the whole f&@king reason that insurance works you fool. Young people who don’t use it or make claims allow for us older folks to be covered.

He has no idea how insurance works. Having healthy people on keeps costs low for those who aren't. Someone should ask his dumb ass what an actuarial table is. He probably thinks it's where you eat whale carcass and raccoon penis.

People paying for and NOT using insurance is how the whole system works without collapsing on itself. These people just don't get the basics of how things work. Or they are INTENTIONALLY trying to burn it down.

So, they qualify, enroll, never get hurt, then are removed. Then they get hurt or sick and voila, no insurance. Yeah, that is exactly how it should work. Maybe they should change all insurance to be like this, only buy it when you need it. I think the Ins. Companies would love that!

Just for the sake of argument, let’s say there are people who are unaware they have insurance (sounds inconceivable to me), wouldn’t it be a nice surprise when you show up at an emergency room with accidental injuries, or you get a cancer diagnosis, that you are indeed insured. Sounds good to me 🤷🏻‍♀️!

So now having insurance and not using it is fraud. 🙄 In a functioning media environment, moronic statements like this would result in demands this idiot immediately resign.

And everyone who pays for insurance but never made a claim will get refunds, right? I mean, the insurance companies never even knew they were there if they never paid out a claim. Right?

What do those low-risk people thinking they're doing, sneaking into risk pools like that? 'Risk' is right there in the name. Next thing you'll be telling me, those people go and get shots *before* they get sick

Why are the GOP so anti affordable health care in 🇺🇸, what is so wrong with it? I will never understand their antipathy toward it. Maybe if 🇺🇸 stopped starting wars and killing people they may have enough $$$s to be able to implement affordable/universal health care.

How do they live with themselves? Is the money, are the bribes, worth that much? People will die, and Kennedy and Oz and Trump are responsible.

Or, they were young and healthy and this is how insurance is supposed to work. Republicans, either profoundly stupid or amoral liars.

They are liars. How do you think the Germans sat back while millions were murdered?? Because they were lied to repeatedly until they believed it all.

Supposedly there were agents who would get paid for every person they enrolled, so they'd find people who qualified to make no payments and then enroll them without their knowledge even if they opted not to for the incentives. That said, the numbers they're talking about are outrageous.

If this was really something they were concerned about, it seems to me that the better option would be to contact each person before removing them and confirming whether or not they had enrolled intentionally. "You didn't use your catastrophic care insurance" is a hell of a decision maker.

It’s incredibly cruel to do this. These folks are appalling, every day. I guess we shouldn’t expect much from the guy who was putting mice in a blender.

Who wouldn't want to be in a business in which you sell access to a service that no one uses? It's pure profit. So of course Jr want those payments to end. Because Putin is itching for Trump's 7th bankrupcy

I hate Nazi pedo weirdo scum who have no business being in charge of anything. They actively kill people daily with these evil stupid policies.

I rarely make a claim on my ACA health insurance that I’ve had for 5 years because the deductible is $8400 (probably will be $10k next year). So flipping clueless.🤮

My little boy got kicked off his health insurance this year. I paid $165 to his pediatrician recently to make sure he was up to date on his vaccines and had his wellness check up. I hope RFK Jr continues to melt like a candle and drops into a sewer grate!

We know we're enrolled ffs. The amount of paperwork needed to get on Medicaid, in my case, is something I'll never forget. Plus his looming threats of losing said insurance is a constant reminder that I'm on it? Thank god I live in a progressive state.

"It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers." Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

That really isn’t a fair comparison. Most car or home policies don’t cover preventative maintenance. My car insurance doesn’t pay for my oil changes. I don’t know what some of the low cost ACA plans cover, but most health insurance policies cover at least some preventative care.

I just got a CMS release implying that 551,000 people were dually enrolled in Medicaid and the ACA. And they are saying 189,000 had ACA and Medicare and Medicaid/chip.

Actually Medicaid covers everything. But some states opted to expand their Medicaid and others didn't. I'm guessing most of these 500k or 190k are probably in those states that didn't.

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Yep. They are collapsing the system on purpose. Healthy people paying in is the only way the system exists. If you only have ill people in the system filing claims every month, the system collapses.

If you think about universal systems the entire idea is that everyone pays in via taxes, regardless of whether they get sick or not, and that's how it sustains itself. So these dangerous lunatics are running in the opposite direction. Because of course they are.

In sane brain we realize that not enough people are covered. Hence the policy of medicare expansion, etc. These maga maha psychopaths think TOO MANY people have insurance. So they are removing coverage.

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Wait.........they are paying for it but not using it, how is that scamming? They dont use it because deductibles, and user fees are so high they cannot afford it but they pay every month anyway because a catastrophic health situation could happen to any of us at any time you dolt.

People not filing a claim does not mean they do not need healthcare coverage. You cannot assume someone is better off losing protection simply because they have not needed to use it yet.

Explain to me why the big push to get people off coverage because they’ve never used the coverage. Is there a cost to having them on now? Do they fear a cost in the future?

I wonder if they ever considered contacting these people not using the coverage to actually find out why, rather than just guessing.

These clowns may be dumb enough to never think about how healthcare works for people who aren't rich, but I guarantee there's also someone evil like Vought behind it who knows it could cause a death spiral in the ACA.

A lot of men who never go to the doctor are about to find out that the federal government cancelled their insurance

Yes, he does. Like trump, the lies they tell are for maga to believe and bots to repeat. Repeat it enough, youll believe it.

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RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim."

I hardly go to the doctor or make insurance claims. Only yearly check ups & dentist visits (three times a year) And I am in my 50s. Is he referring to procedures? Co-pays? These ppl are idiots & journalists are failing us. Ask specific questions b/c I am so tired of this bullshit.

Healthy people on health insurance is the only way to cover those who make a lot of claims. Dumbass. Like removing everyone who has flood insurance who hasn’t flooded.

Accurate. Personally, as a resident of the most resilient region in the US, I'm tired of paying increased home insurance for rich people coastal homes affected by climate change, but yeah that's how it works. Health is an entirely different thing.

They’re not dumb. The point is to kill the ACA by kicking all the healthy people out of the program. That will make it so only the most sick people are using it, which will bankrupt the entire program. They can’t repeal it, so this is how they kill it. I mean, they ARE dumb, but this is more evil.

What an ignorant and selfish perspective by RFK Jr.! People know they have health insurance because they pay a monthly premium! People purchase insurance as a hedge against catastrophic events. People ought to be rewarded for making healthy choices, not kicked off healthcare insurance!