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To: Oldpuppymax

The cited paragraph from the law simply states that as long as your company provides insurance you will not be required to participate in the new Federally mandated insurance exchanges.

However, what the writer misses is that the insurance provided by your company will now be under Federal control. Federal regulators can force policies to include stuff which will price them out of existence. This was the plan by the left from the beginning.

Once they have the insurance companies out of the roll of providing private coverage, then the second part of the pincer movement will begin. The Feds will be the only provider and they will reduce payments to private doctors and institutions, just like they squeeze doctors with Medicare today.

One of the elephants in the room is that Medicare has devolved into a giant transfer payment. The Feds refuse to pay providers at a good rate and the providers shift the costs to everyone else OR the providers refuse to provide services for Medicare patients at the artificially low rates.

Once everyone is forced into the Federal exchanges the providers will have no options. Thus, a lot of doctors are taking early retirement.


8 posted on 11/21/2012 10:30:43 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

The “elephant” in the room though is the fact it will never fiscally get off the ground. Libtards don’t do economics well, they will always cite the European examples, which only worked until now because they had 50 years to operate under a cost structure that had the U.S. carrying they vast majority of their national defense burdens. Even with THAT subsidy, European countries and their medical systems are falling apart, and we’re going to try and do the same thing starting from being broke and while maintaining all the other stuff we currently spend on? I don’t think so...


10 posted on 11/21/2012 10:37:54 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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