As Carson City seniors prepare for Medicare Open Enrollment, many need information about coverage, plans, and options to make the best, informed decision.
nobody dies because they don t have access to health care. congressman labridor says nobody dies because they don t have access to health care. you we heard the reaction in the room. there could be obviously significant changes. one of the sticking points will be pre-existing conditions, protection for people with pre existing conditions is one of the most popular elements. president trump promised the republican version will be every bit as good, the house version leaves legal room for state insurers. first of all, a lot of people have pre existing conditions. does this new bill affect all of them? you know anderson it doesn t. if you are over 65, on medicare, supplemental medicare, then it doesn t affect you. so this is absolutely for everyone. or if you get your insurance through an employer, then the pre existing part conditions parts of this don t affect you. but if you are on what s called the individual market, if you are buying insurance on your
becomes a big problem after january 1st, i think it will overshadow everything we ve already seen. steve. this is always the problem. if you go back to the mid-october time frame, insurance companies were actually manually inputting the stuff that couldn t go through these 834 forms, so you had them actually putting additional people on to take the data, take it out and put it in their own formats, when all of this is supposed to happen electronically. so that s a huge problem. what the administration has basically done is repaint the front of a teardown. that s not going to do anything. the plumbing doesn t work. the back end is falling down. it might add to the curb appeal, but it s not going to ultimately sell the house and nobody is going to want to live there. that s the fundamental problem. in addition to the 834 problems, we are going to hear much, much more about other people that haven t yet been focused on losing their coverage or being asked to pay much higher premiums.
every week, viewers vote for your choice online. in our friday lightning round poll. what subject you want us to discuss. the winner this week, wait for it, aarp, with a resounding 46% of the vote. so for those who haven t been paying attention, the house republicans are investigating whether or not aarp should keep the tax status as non-profit organization. critics focus on the fact that aarp was very instrumental lobbying for healthcare reform and now stands to make a billion dollars in the next decade accord stog the critics , because it supports the medi-gap, supplemental medicare that people need with the healthcare reform. that is comprehensive. how much trouble are aarp in? shining a light on them is long overdue. they got exemptions in