He then encouraged physicians to over prescribe pain medication by letting the patients decide how much is enough.
As an aside, I am in the town where an OxyContin junkie shot up a medical facility because he didn't get as much as he wanted.
Yes, part of the Obamacare was evaluation of healthcare providers.
One point was to evaluate the patient pain treatment.
Practically the only way to completely control the pain is to prescribe opiates.
So, to boost their Obamacare rating, doctors started to overprescribe the opiates, with terrible consequences.
Yes, current opiate crisis has its roots in Obamacare!