By now we figured it out that the Obama’s Health Care reform will cut care and send more taxes our way. What really puzzle me are the mysterious parts of the bill about so called “Indirect payment reforms “to control reimbursements of health care providers. US Senate secured billions of our dollars in the Health care Bill to create: Innovation center to experiment with new payment models. Why? We already have tons of old models in which Government is trying to avoid paying the doctors and hospitals so the private insurance holders can pick up the tab.
The Senate Bill will create a $6-billion center to test and evaluate different payment reform models. Guess who will be the guinea pigs for all this experimenting? Medicare and Medicaid. Congratulations to all medical care providers who accept government insurance. A billion dollar bureaucracy will decide what you get and if you get anything at all for your service.
I was hoping Government will use all their innovative potential for finding cure for diseases. Instead Government is finding innovative ways to cut the payments to doctors and hospitals. What Government cuts will be transferred to private insurance until the premiums become so expensive that private policies may disappear altogether.
Major task of this 6 billion dollar center is expanding the use of pay-for-performance models in which doctors and hospitals earn bonuses tied to better outcomes in patience care.
Common sense says: patients with “risk of not so good outcomes and results” may have hard time to find a doctor or a hospital. The whole thing reminds me of the ancient law of Hammurabi (created ca. 1790 BC)
- If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumor with a bronze lancet and has cured the man’s eye; he shall receive ten shekels of silver.
- If a physician has treated a free-born man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the man to die, or has opened a tumor of the man with a lancet of bronze and has destroyed his eye, his hands one shall cut off.
- If he has opened his tumor with a bronze lancet and has ruined his eye, he shall pay the half of his price in money.
- If a doctor has cured the broken limb of a man, or has healed his sick body, the patient shall pay the doctor five shekels of silver.
- If the doctor of oxen and asses has treated an ox or an ass for a grave wound and has cured it, the owner of the ox or the ass shall give to the doctor as his pay one-sixth of a shekel of silver.
Seems to me there is nothing progressive in Government saying what the doctors should do and how much money is enough for them. It is just an “innovative” way to impose ancient tyranny on our health care system.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:49 am
it is tyranny by the STATE. with socialism comes the loss of freedoms and individual rights, replaced by a totalitarian state which stifles creativity and creates a sheep like people all dependent on the government teat.
read- The Road To Serfdom by Hayak.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am
there are MANDATES for everyone. mandates for individuals, for employers. this healthcare monstrosity represent government intrusion such as we have never known it.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:02 am
health insurance premiums will increase significantly. the only “winners” in this plan are all the government workers that will need to be hired to manage and administrate this new government bureaucracy.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Tim, I agree. Even scarier is that more government bureaucracy means more red tape and paperwork and headaches for people who actually create things in America. Also more possibilities for corruption.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Seems to me we are going to pay 6 billion dollars to create bureaucracy that basically is going to harass using payment models the doctors and the hospitals.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Tyranny by the STATE?….NOT. Tyranny is obscene profits by Health care providers, mostly insurance biggies. Your premiums are going uu now without Obama’s intervention. He was elected to fix the mess, and MAJORITY of americans voted for him. If you do not like it, quit calling him names and go vote in the next election. This is how DEMOCRACY works in america, Majority wins!!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Sam, I agree. Hope you are going to stand by your opinion after the elections in 2010. See you at the pools
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Hey Sam
Right now the “Majority” does not want government run healthcare.
And please tell me what these “obscene” profits are that the insurance company makes ?
They are in fact a business selling something that is by no means your “right” to have.
If our premiums do go up then only those who can afford it will buy it. Thats will cause the price to have to come back down if they are going to stay in business. Its called a free market.
Would you rather the government that ran medicade and medicare 700 times over budget till its now projected to fail in 8 years run your healthcare also ?
Would you pay into any private insurance policy for 4 years until only 30% of the population was allowd to reap its benfits ?
“He was elected to fix the mess, and MAJORITY of americans voted for him. ”
If the election were held today, he’d lose.
he has not fixed one damn thing since he came into office but instead only compounded our problems ten times over.
Right now, the majority is most definately not winning
November 25th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
obscene profits by Health care providers, mostly insurance biggies.-sam
yeah right sam. they have a 3% profit margin. stop drinking the kool aid and listening to msnbc. do some research and become knowledgeable on the subject
November 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
the single biggest thing that would REDUCE costs is medical malpractice tort reform. this would greatly reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” doctors practice to cover their butts in case they get sued.
will the dems even CONSIDER this ? hell no, cause the trial attorneys are their biggest contributors.
this sin’t about health care. it is about POWER,
November 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
THE DEMS ARE ALL ABOUT MAINTAINING POLITICAL POWER. HOW do they do that ? by making more and more people dependent on the government. by adding to their constituents, such as more hispanics through lack immigration enforcement, adding more government workers such as those that will be employed to manage obamacare.
tax policies ? whateve benefits their constituencies such as african americans and trial attorneys..
November 25th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
everyone in the usa gets healthcare now. if you have no insurance you can just go to any emergency room in a hospital and you will receive care. if you ADD millions and millions of additional insureds, who benefits ? the insurance companies and the drug companies.
who loses ? seniors because their care will be rationed in that doctors and hospitals now have a bigger pool of patients to care for.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
liberal just don’t get it. there is no free lunch. government is inefficient. we need government for national defense. almost everything else is counter productive.
take education. that should be handled at the local level.
smaller government benefits everyone.
big governemnt creates slaves.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
What’s the difference between bigger government and tyranny?
November 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Bigger government doesn’t ALWAYS involve tyranny, Charles. It ALMOST ALWAYS leads to it though.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Wes:
Power is tyranny, because nobody can have power without becoming a tyrant.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Wes:
Power is tyranny, because nobody can have power without becoming a tyrant.
-charles
charles, does God have power ? Is God a tyrant ?