[originalbuckeye]

The Government limiting the number of insurance companies is just as bad as Socialized Medicine. The Govt will just dictate the parameters to the big 3 health insurance companies and then, eventually limit them to one company. It’s coming.

[arthurus]

So a third party is to determine what is valuable to the individual. In a “value based” society there is no individual choice and one’s choices are determined by a committee or by an algorithm.

[buckalfa]

The theory of value based care or reimbursement is that a hospital's payment is reduced if it does not maintain certain "quality" of outcome standards or measurements. Sounds good in practice, but the problem is that quality is measured in paper work stats, not actually what is good for any individual patient because more effort is spent on charting rather than hands on patient care.

[glorgau]

The key is to realize for whom the “value” is being calculated.

[Plain Old American]

Can you say “Death Panels”

[Plain Old American]

“basis for how much insurance companies—or the government—will spend to treat any given patient”

Can you say “Death Panels”