Gary Claxton
Gary Claxton
Gary J. Claxton aka The Mouth of the South born on November 21, 1966 in Savannah, Georgia. He was raised in a rural community of Cedar Crossing, Georgia. He is a Christian, country comedian. He has charted several albums with his latest titled Hillbilly Hitch'd. Gary has had five other albums to moderate success...
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When you've got three kids and someone's sick, your first thought is probably not to get online and find out which doctor's a little bit cheaper.
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The willingness to go forward and the shared belief that this is a framework that could be workable is more agreement than we generally have in health care about anything.
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Employers are beginning to exclude more services from that maximum.
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People should realize that there is variation here. Everybody wants to focus on the average. Nobody is average.
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You have to start with the plan first.
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I think people don't always realize that certain things have limitations on them or may not be covered, or that there's a separate deductible when you go in the hospital.
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Certainly a component of what they believe in is people should have less-generous insurance. The idea of making out of pocket expenses deductible is tied to the broader notion that we need to change overall tax policies.
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The reason you buy insurance is to protect yourself financially. If you get really sick, it doesn't do you much good if you have a $3,000 deductible and now don't have $3,000.
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The good news is that it's a slower rate of increase than last year. But it's still substantially higher than where wages are going.
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Consumer-driven plans are proving attractive to some, but with just a couple million people now enrolled, it's too early to know whether they'll have a meaningful effect on the health system.
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Unless employers are putting a bunch of money in, I really don't see how these balances are going to get much bigger.
If it's not covered, there's not much you can do.
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This is kind of the easiest thing out there to do and obviously it's not getting done as much as it could be.
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Health insurance is becoming more expensive for the average person.