"Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans.

[bicmay@med-mastodon.com]

"Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans. The individual deductible would be eight times the average for someone with job-based insurance."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html

#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #deductibles #CMS #CostsOfCare

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@bicmay

Dr. Oz is not the originator of the plan to hike individual and family deductibles for ACA health insurance to $15,000 and $31,000, respectively.

Those ruinously high deductibles aren't deductibles. They destroy the ACA without doing the actual politicking necessary to get congressional approval to do it.

It's like Trump, Miller, Musk, and DOGE destroying an agency, leaving one person at the front desk, then telling the courts they haven't really shut the agency down.

[pattyhanson@mastodon.social]

@bicmay Why bother with insurance if that is your only option? I hate these people