The Republicans would also encourage small businesses to group together to negotiate cheaper insurance and would expand existing tax-deductible medical savings accounts (MSAs).
They could stay in the original fee-for-service program, with the existing benefits, premiums, deductibles and co-payments.
Another new proposal would eliminate existing Medicare copayments and deductibles for preventive services like hepatitis B vaccinations, colorectal and prostate cancer screenings, mammographies, pelvic exams and bone mass measurements.
*In the high-option Medicare plan, the government would establish a single deductible for the two existing parts of Medicare.
Scrapping an existing plan only to pay more for one with a higher deductible was hardly an attractive option.
Under existing federal income tax law, state and local school taxes are deductible from gross income, but the amount actually saved by the tax-payer depends on his federal income tax bracket.
Under existing law, a health savings account must be paired with a high-deductible, low-premium "catastrophic" health plan, defined as a plan with a deductible of at least $2,600 for a family.
And some observers point to developments within the existing system of employer-provided insurance, such as the shifting of costs onto employees through higher deductibles and co-payments, which encourage people to "consume" fewer health services.
Rebecca wrote: "My State Insurance is switching to ObamaCare, and my deductibles start ALL over again with no option to dispute my prenatal and birthing care as an extension of existing care.
Despite the significant increase in the number of existing properties in the city in a period shorter than 10 years (from 85,816 to 113,064), the decrease of the pure risk premium value in the city (with 3% deductible) from 1.98 to 1.63‰ is particularly remarkable.
