Posted on 10/26/2013 3:36:23 PM PDT by IbJensen
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – these are our recognized rights as demonstrated by the Declaration of Independence. Americans have the right to live, to be free, and follow their dreams as long as it does not deprive their fellow citizens of the same. Constitutionally, there is no ‘right’ to healthcare. But as a society, we have coalesced around the notion that a decent society should provide access to decent healthcare. Unfortunately, the prescription for greater access and lower cost, The Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare has done nothing to provide greater access or lower cost. In fact, it is doing the exact opposite.
Healthcare and related services comprises roughly 16-18% of the United States economy. There are many moving parts to delivering healthcare services to Americans. From doctors, to patients, to pharmacies, to pharmeceuticals, to health insurance companies, there are a slew of relationships and decisions that are constantly interacting in our healthcare system at any given moment. Obamacare attempted to rewrite existing law to create more access and greater affordability. The initial returns are in and health insurance companies are cancelling policies and many people are finding that if they are keeping their policies, then their premiums are increasing.
If President Obama assured Americans that his plan would be a good deal, then why are these negative things occurring? The answer is rooted in a basic truth: a centralized government cannot possibly control a massive portion of the economy. There are unintended consequences from every bureaucratic decision. There are just too many moving parts for anyone to grab a hold of.
For example, Obamacare famously bars insurance companies from denying insurance to anyone with pre-existing conditions. This is without question a noble idea. But if insurance companies have to deal with cost, then their costs will have to increase because they are covering very inexpensive pre-existing conditions. To compensate, will the insurance company take the hit to its bottom line? Of course not. Rather, the company will do what any sound business endeavor would do, pass the cost onto the consumer. Therefore, this beautifully conceived idea of protecting all ill Americans single handedly is increasing the cost for healthy individuals. This is part of the bad deal that Obamacare is handing millions of Americans across the nation.
Let us explore another wonderful gift bestowed upon us by the central planner in chief. Now, young adults up to the age 26 can remain on their parents insurance. This seemed very peculiar to me. Are we not to believe that young adults who have graduated from college or university should be employed and therefore covered by insurance? This provision, widely popular with generation inept and their coddling parents, is part of the larger problem with Obamacare: the federal government was never designed to take care of the individual from cradle to grave. Our nation was never intended to provide access to affordable healthcare. And yet, Obama and the Democratic Party believe that this experiment will yield positive change. It will not for it cannot.
Obamacare was designed with a flawed premise. Healthcare was not broken in the United States. Was it perfect? Of course not, however there were certain common sense tweaks to the system that could have made it better and prevented this failed experiment from causing havoc on our healthcare system. Three simple solutions could have attacked the cost and lack of access to healthcare – allow insurance companies to compete across state lines, allow patients to pay for healthcare out of pocket, and reduce frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. It has always been an enigma to me as to why patients go to the doctor’s office for a routine checkup and are asked for insurance. Isn’t the concept of insurance that you are protected from major healthcare issues? I don’t think a cold reaches that level of concern. For if patients paid for their own routine healthcare costs, they would treat going to the doctor like grocery shopping: they would search for the provider at a great value and service. This alone would do wonders for adding competition to the system and stop treating it like a Christmas giveaway.
Obamacare was badly conceived law and should give pause to all Americans. The President and his Party should be severely rebuked not for ill intent, but for ill construction. They identified the problem but created solutions that exacerbated the issues. Americans are living in great fear. They are fearful of the poor economic performance of the nation. They are fearful of the ever-growing debt of the United States. And they fear that the healthcare that they had is slowly slipping away just because some politicians deemed themselves intelligent enough to solve all of society’s ills. The Affordable Care act was nothing of the sort and will manage to put our nation’s healthcare system on life support. That is the problem with ill constructed legislation from good intentions. Hence the inherent problem of liberalism and those individuals who think themselves smart enough to handle all the moving parts. What they end up doing is clogging the moving parts, creating enough friction to perhaps break the machine.
This phony amateur Marxist who currently takes up space in the White Hut is a control freak connected to George Soros, the Rothchilds, and Brzezinski who use this phony to perpetuate the policies of “THE NEW WORLD ORDER,” or a one-world government.
In addition, under the stipulation of Obamacare, the Federal Government maintains the right to invade your checking and savings accounts without your knowledge or permission.
It’s not “Ill-considered”, it’s planned genocide.
And the sheep do not look up, but wander meekly into the ovens.
Ill concieved central planning, definition: central plan to redistribute wealth and healthcare to the entitled while destroying the economy, jobs and the middleclass
” Obamacare famously bars insurance companies from denying insurance to anyone with pre-existing conditions. This is without question a noble idea. But if insurance companies have to deal with cost, then their costs will have to increase because they are covering very inexpensive pre-existing conditions.”
Huh? Inexpensive pre-existing conditions?
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Insuring preexisting conditions is not insurance. That’s welfare.
It is not a noble idea, it is an oxymoron.
IOW, just a little less central planning, rather than a lot of central planning. For all intents and purposes, we have embraced the New Deal and the Great Society. Unless we move quickly, in a few years conservatives will campaign on how they can run Obamacare better than democrats.
Sorry, but any Central Planning suffers from the fatal flaw of being ill-concieved.
Exactly! No insurance plan of any variety pays for damage that occurred prior to the loss. Or at least, adjusters try to rule it out as much as possible.
Further, there’s a thing called depreciation.
0bamacare tries to turn the whole premise of insurance on it’s head.
It’s nice to want to give the insurance company’s resources to the already sick, but that’s not the way to run an insurance company. when the resources run out, and they will, under such a plan, there are no resources to take care of the people paying for insurance.
It’s what the Catholic church says about illegal immigration of a massive amount of people, the bishops should take a look.
It’s nice to want to help the needy, but not to the point of overtaxing resources of the citizens, who, and who’s country, in turn, will not have resources to take care of the needy.
So, ‘nice’ just doesn’t cut it.
Also true wrt to illegals. I just recently learned (actually I knew from the mid 90s, but didn’t connect it) that Mexico has universal healthcare. It’s about what you’d expect, but yet- they come here to give birth.
I bet not many people know that, right now, there are independent adjusting companies (at least 2, so far) who are taking on the claims of failed insurance carrierS- plural; both property & casualty. AFAIK, it isn’t the “common names”, but there are enough of the claims to require large staff handling a large volume of claims. They are not catastrophe related claims.
This is disturbing. I don’t know if it’s unprecedented, but DH has never heard of this happening in 35 years.
0bamacare is going to be magnitudes worse.
It has been a long time in the making.
Lenin called for it, Hitler worked it, Hillary tried it and Obama is currently perverting a most workable health insurance system where all but 15% of the U.S. population were easily covered.
The collective intention of Lenin, Hitler, Hillary and Obama is to take control of healthcare so as to control our bodies, because our souls are hooked to our bodies, which is the real goal.
Obamacare is The Enemy's plan.
All three of those solutions point to the fact that the "problem" with health care was government interference. Thinking that a massive increase in government control of health care would help is one of the stupidest ideas ever conceived of.
Not exactly.
Group plans do.
I got my wife pregnant then got laid off. Started a new job, The group plan paid for the birth.
I think the deal is groups pay big amounts that offset the preexisting issues.
If the Catholics are so hot to help the needy, why aren’t they going to Mexico to do it? Let’s buy these do-gooders some tickets to Juarez!!
Ugh! They are FROM Mexico, leading the rest of the bishops on this mission. The Catechism states the opposite should be done, and they are so misinformed about the nature of the thing.
The Church, in this country, the Catholic Church, simply HAS to get out of telling the government to be a charity.
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“I think the deal is groups pay big amounts that offset the preexisting issues.”
This is the whole point of the individual mandate in 0bamacare. The difference is that a person *chooses* to work for the employer & *chooses* to subscribe to health insurance through them. The employee has the insurance because he works at Acme Company. I don’t know of any companies who have compulsory enrollment in their health plans. They may exist, I guess, but I don’t know of any.
0bamacare attempts to force people to purchase health insurance not because of something optional that they do, voluntarily- but simply because A. they are alive, & B. they live in the US.
The attack started benignly enough - we would get some additional "administrators" to help take the non-patient load such as personnel work and budgeting off of the clinical staff (and of course many of those administrators got paid almost as much as the doctors and usually turned out to be surprise surprise cronies of the politicians) - soon the rhetoric was a little more ominous: doctors spent too much time acting like they were in private practice and staff really didn't care about helping patients leave the hospital but only hanging on to them to maintain their jobs - so obviously we needed more administrators to make sure the clinicians did their jobs the right way - eventually it got to the point that administrators were arrogant enough to be deciding where patients should be assigned for treatment or in some cases what therapies and medications they should receive. Last I heard the hospital was perennially on the edge of being decertified by such accrediting groups as JCAHO and CMS. There's never enough money to hire adequate numbers of physicians and nurses - but there's always a new administrator popping up wherever you look.
In his excellent book "Spoilt Rotten", Dr. Theodore Dalrymple talks about seeing the same thing in the hospital at which he worked in Britain. In this case the coup was accomplished though the continued appeals to the civil rights and work environment laws - aids and nursing assistants were encouraged by their unions to file all sorts of complaints about all sorts of adverse working conditions whenever possible - the foot in the door was again bringing in non-clinical administrators to take the adjudication of these matters "off the hands" of the physicians who ran the place - the doctors gladly gave away this duty, and before long most of the control of the hospital.
Obamacare is new only in scope and ferocity - I'm afraid the results will be the same worse care, demoralized staff, and dissatisfied patients as before.....
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