Posted on 07/27/2024 3:51:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sadly, no!
With Joe Biden not seeking re-election, might the American people be spared his latest cure for our sick healthcare system? Sadly, the answer is no.
Systems thinkers describe behaviors or activities that repeatedly happen in complex organizations or systems as archetypes, viz., drifting goals, escalation, tragedy of the commons, and the best description of federal solutions for healthcare: fix-that-fails-or-backfires.
Medicare, the 1965 program that supposedly assured timely, quality medical care during our golden years, will run out of money, be insolvent, in less than four years, according to the Trustees. At that time, Medicare will be unable to provide hospital care for seniors.
Medicaid (also 1965) was intended to assure adequate medical care for the small number of medically fragile Americans. This federal “fix” failed so badly that Medicaid enrollees experience death-by-queue — they die waiting in line for medical care that never comes. A fix that not merely fails but backfires. (See my previous analysis on the topic here.)
Washington’s 1986 “fix” for healthcare was the Emergency Medical Transport and Labor Act (EMTALA), creating the unfunded mandate that has been forcing smaller hospitals, especially rural ones, to close, leaving millions of Americans with no locally available care facilities.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) increased the likelihood of medical errors by obstructing medical communication. HIPAA was another federal fix that not only failed but backfired badly.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010) was touted as providing “all the care Americans deserve.” Millions did get “free” insurance through Medicaid expansion. What they didn’t get was care! Access to care went down, fewer doctors accepted new Medicaid patients, and wait times for care lengthened. While Medicaid insurance was free for individuals, the ACA’s cost to taxpayers was $1.76 trillion.
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The closest thing to immortality is a problem that the government creates a program to fix.
With Biden out? Biden hasn’t been there in mind or body for months. Who does he think is running the country? I’d write him back and tell him to go ask Jill Biden.
It seems as if everyone is okay with shipping him back to Delaware for the last eighth of his term and just pretending that he’s serving as president, rather than have Cackles step in.
Time for another winter of clot shots!
Kalamalamma has already vowed to re-energize the push for evs- and increase the demands far more than Biden did- klammalla is gonna “fix da erff” with her aggressive green polices dontdhaknow?
She couldn’t fix a broken Kool-Aid stand if she had the instructions & a raise for doing it.
As they say, she couldn’t pour water out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole of the boot
“With Biden Out, Might We Avoid Another Federal ‘Fix That Fails’?”
That’s easy ... not only NO but Hell NO
I was just a kid when Medicare/medicaid came into being but I saw on the front page of the three papers we got that serious looking old guys were saying “This is un sustainable, it will bankrupt us” and I couldn’t help but wonder why no one seemed to be listening. We’re these old guys morons? The guys who said it was unsustainable are now all in their graves… and boy were they right.
The ACA broke middle class health care - as it was designed to. How can they call it a failure? It achieved every single goal of the Democrats, insurance companies, and health care conglomerates. /s
Which may lead to the use of the term "Kamalageddon" . God have mercy.
KAMALA WANTS TO END ALL ‘PRIVATE’ Health care.
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