The #1 Lie Behind Obamacare Exposed…
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WSJ has the details (my bold):
So Boston’s latest adventure deserves particular scrutiny, since odds are its methods are coming soon to a hospital near you. After more than a year and a half of debate, last week the legislature passed a far-reaching “cost containment” bill that Democratic Governor Deval Patrick is about to sign. It is the inevitable postscript to the model that Mitt Romney introduced in 2006.
The claim then, as with the Affordable Care Act, was that health care would be less expensive if everyone had insurance. Soon Massachusetts Democrats leaked that their political strategy all along was to expand coverage only, because had RomneyCare seriously squeezed providers it never would have overcome industry opposition. “Bending the curve” on costs could be saved for another day, once a vast new government liability was locked in.
Sure enough, 79% of the newly insured are on public programs. Health costs—Medicaid, RomneyCare’s subsidies, public-employee compensation—will consume some 54% of the state budget in 2012, up from about 24% in 2001. Over the same period state health spending in real terms has jumped by 59%, while education has fallen 15%, police and firemen by 11% and roads and bridges by 23%.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts spends more per capita on health care than any other state and therefore more than anywhere else in the industrialized world. Costs are 27% higher than the U.S. average, 15% higher when adjusted for the state’s higher wages and its concentration of academic medical centers and specialists…
The health-care postman always rings twice, and now medicine itself is the target, instead of unsympathetic insurance companies. Under the plan, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals and other providers must register with a new state bureaucracy as a condition of licensure—that is, permission to practice. They’ll be required to track and report their financial performance, price and cost trends, state-sanctioned quality measures, market share and other metrics…
An 11-member board known as the Health Policy Commission will use the data to set and enforce rules to ensure that total Massachusetts health spending, public and private, grows no more than projected gross state product through 2017, and 0.5 percentage points lower thereafter. (And Paul Ryan’s Medicare projections are unrealistic?)
No registered provider is allowed to make “any material change to its operations or governance structure,” the bill says, without the commission’s approval. The commission can also rewrite the terms of provider contracts with insurers and payment levels and methods if they are “deemed to be excessive.”
As the commission polices the market, it can decide to supervise the behavior of any provider that exceeds some to-be-specified individual benchmark—that is, doctors and hospitals that are spending too much on patient care. These delinquents must submit a “performance improvement plan” that the commission must endorse.
In other words, the commission is empowered to control the practice and organization of medicine.
Bottom line, healthcare in Massachusetts, i.e. Romneycare, is becoming a centrally planned sewer pit. And Obamacare is Romneycare on steroids. Stay healthy my friends, the quality of healthcare is about to nosedive in America. It won’t happen over night, but it will creep up on us with centrally planned micro-regulation after micro-regulation. If you think TSA treatment of passengers is bureaucratic madness, mixed with crony radiation machines, way for the absurdity of medical treatment that is a combination of Obamacare and crony pharma.
Romneycare is only the teaser.
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2:34 pm
I think that Massachusetts voters deserve it ! And they don't even have the illegal immigration that much of
the country now has………………………..they are mostly democrats there, and they like to raise taxes…….salud
3:02 pm
the big surprise is that sarah palin was right about the death squad and a tax on house sales and more surprises
to come
3:58 pm
Thank to this over regulating 3 doctors in my area are going to hang it up. Many younger doctors are eyeing other countrys. Who can blame them. The Nazification of America is in full swing. So less doctor and the price of insurance has tripled for my aged father along with 40% increase in cost of medines. And it will get worst. Unemployment will double and inflation is now above 11% and going to the moon. You can thank "GAYBAMA" and all his supporters!
4:06 pm
Well anyone with common sense could see the writing on the wall. But common sense seems to have evolved out of the human genes for those who choose to go into politics. As our humanity is being incrementally re-defined by an incrementally totalitarian government, we have only ourselves to blame. Liberty has a price. We decided we didn't want to pay a price for it but would rather pay the governments to makes us slaves to the state.
8:19 pm
What happened to our freedom and right to choose.we the people not we the oppressive goverrnnnment!
5:10 pm
How does this man Barack Hussein Obama fool so many people? Its like people just go stupid over him. Some of us are able to see through him, and his evil plan to bring America down from within, while he smiles at the people and makes them feel good about it.
6:21 pm
All is not lost on future health care. The so-called facts in this blog are quite misleading. Obama will not be reelected in November and sounder heads will also lead the legislative agenda.
That's my opinion.
7:03 pm
I've been priced out of the health care market for some time and even when I did have insurance, the quality of health care was already on the decline. Family members in other cities are reporting similar experiences. I suppose by the time I qualify for Medicare that will be gone too, or messed up to the point of being useless. It seems though that this might also present an opportunity to invest in nontraditional medicine – vitamins, herbs, old folk remedies. Any ideas or suggestions?
8:48 pm
It is sad that so many believe that the costs of ObamaCare are going to go down and be affordable. This was a top level deal made with the AMA, large insurance companies and others to drive out competition and control this portion of the economy. What seems to be left out of the picture is that this is a very sick country. We are spending almost 18% of our gross domestic income on health care. 8% to 12% is the most common range of industrial nations. The government distortion is enormous. It is just another sign that we are headed for the financial cliff–and, it really doesn't matter whether or not the Bush tax cuts and other explosions of budget cuts and tax increase occur at the end of the year or not. Now it is just a matter of time. The empire is on a respirator and the oxygen bottle is nearly empty.
1:06 am
My wife has a 92 year old aunt in Sweden (socialized medicine at its 'best'), she had a stroke about two months ago in her home. When she was admitted to the hospital for care, the head nurse at the hospital told the immediate relatives in a very mean voice that 'she (the aunt) should of had a more serious stroke, we wouldn't have to be dealing with her now. Anybody that is as old as she is should not be brought to the hospital to keep them alive'.
Obamacare will make that happen in our country. Hospitals like the Mayo Clinic, will be closed down because the price to keep it up and running will be way to expensive.
3:23 pm
Obama's plan for thinning out the population – coming to your neighborhood soon….only reason I'm voting Romney is to get rid of Obuma. I thought about Gary Johnson, but, he doesn't have a chance and if I vote for him, it is like giving Obama 1/2 a vote.
7:10 am
What happened to the comment I tried to post yesterday? There was nothing inappropriate or controversial about it. This is the second time this has happened. I'm beginning to think posting here is a complete waste of time.
3:27 pm
Your name doesn't have Hussein in it, does it?
8:33 am
nope… you're now being watched by the Nazi Party !@#$@!# you're bitching about… I hope everyone here and in America in general REALIZES the things you say on any computer ARE PERMANENT, and may come back someday to HAUNT YOU when you least expect or least need it to…
8:36 am
Oh look! My comment to vduran1210 has to be approved by a site admin as well… Guess the 1st Amendment is dead as well… Thanks Site Admins… I bet you work for our friends in the Nazi party as well…
12:42 pm
Tis was predictable as is it predictable that Obamacare will escalate to the same intrusive & abusive levels. The goal is to control human life & wealth. They will do so with the power of, medicine. It is incredible how many people are willing to give up freedom based on the notion they will get something, for nothing. There ain't nothi ng for free folks. Nothin!
12:08 pm
Obama Had A Lot Of help From Republicans And Independent Voters That Put Him In Office,so If You Are One Of Them That Voted For This Ba****d You Should Not Be Putting Any Complaints On This Page.Had You All Had not Threw Your Brains Out The Window When You Pulled Obabas Lever, We Would Not Be In This Kind Of Point Of Almost No Return.If You Think It Is Bad Now,And It Is,Just Wait Until November When Enough zombies Re-elect This Puke again.Things Are So Bad In California That Many Municipalities Can't Pay Their bills Enough Said.As The Old Saying goes Remember The Alamo.