You can run Myth Romney, but you can't hide.
Posted on 06/04/2011 12:41:19 AM PDT by UniqueViews
The fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they'd rather be 'accountable' to their ACO paymasters rather than patients.
A product of last year's massive health-care reform law, ACOs represent the latest government attempt to control escalating health costs. Set to take effect next January, they will use financial carrots and sticks to "encourage" doctors and hospitals to merge into large Accountable Care groups, where they'll give care to Medicare patients according to government "cost effectiveness" guidelines. These ACOs would be rewarded for spending less than government budget targets (or penalized for exceeding them). Government would monitor ACO performance with mandatory electronic medical record systems.
Suppose you saw your doctor for a severe headache and he said, "You don't need an MRI scan. Just take two aspirin and call me in the morning." Could you be sure he was giving you his best medical advice – without being biased by the recent memo from the ACO administrator warning that he might lose his "efficiency bonus" for ordering too many tests?
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You can run Myth Romney, but you can't hide.
“Lest we never forget ugly Romneycare spawned 0bamacare’
Not quite — actually, this is just Hillarycare renamed.
Greetings UniqueViews:
Hillarycare never became law; so which witch is which?
0bomacare has a mini-(ro)m(n)e(y); the citizens must purchase mandate.
Cheers,
OLA
This may date me, but I bought the book that detailed the proposed Hillarycare, it was the worst horrorstory that fortunately didn’t become reality... until now.
Back when Slick Willie tried to shove Hillarycare down our throats, we didn’t want it then. And we don’t want socialized medicine now. Fortunately, in 1993, Congress recognized they actually work for us.
So this great socialized medicide experiment was foist upon all the stupid Massholes who elected Myth Romney as their Governor.
And the ugly sequel of Romneycare is Obamacare.
Medicare, Medi-whatever, Stimulus and Affordable Housng have already broken the bank. Why do they need more bank-breakers?
May?! This ain't leave it to beaver, man.
a clamp on defensive medicine...
Your new Obamacare healthcare system. O/Care adds over 100 new boards, commissions and programs. For example a new Medicare Commission, exempt from judicial review, will unilaterally write rules about utilization and pricing of medical devices and drugs often needed by surgeons. Many regulatory bodies will be overarching in their abilities to select and direct medical subjects concerning Tri-Care, employer group policies, Veteran’s Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
Diligent govt personnel could not fit all of O'Care's new law’s boards, commissions, mandates, and other elements on this chart. So they created “bundles of bureaucracy.”
Seven collective symbols respectively represent clusters of four loan repayment and forgiveness programs, four other new regulatory programs, 17 insurance mandates, 19 special-interest provisions, 22 other new bureaucracies, 26 other new demonstration and pilot programs, and 59 other new grant programs.....
NOTE These 151 additions do not appear individually on the Obamacare diagram. If included, the diagram would be three times larger.
and yet - they’ve done nothing about tort reform.
So - when the doctors miss important problems as they cut back on testing -the malpractice suits will skyrocket.
An early death for we seniors!
Hey, it’s an Obama World now, baby!
We have Tenncare in TN...it is on it’s 3rd round of downsizing, as it is bankrupting the state.
Both Ryan’s plan and 0’care are identical for the first 10 years. No FIXING OF THE 40+ years of donor palm greasing. No going after the $60 Bil in fraud and waste. No Patient input, only lobbyist (former congress critters) and donor professionals input.
I guess I’ll be a more fortunate senior.
I feel so sad for my remaining kin.
Just think of all the years they’ll
NOT have good doctors and insurance.
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