[bonesmccoy]

The bill returns competitive forces to healthcare in our nation.

Under Clinton Admin momentum, the health care system of our nation has been converted to a socialistic one.

Hospitals in most major metropolitan areas receive the lionshare of funding under "risk pools" which make massive allocations of tax payer dollars to hospitals. These allocations have little to do with services because the payments do not correlate to amount of service rendered.

This new legislation specifically creates "FEE FOR SERVICE" models where the physician and hospital are paid ONLY when services are rendered.

In our county nearly 99% of current Medi-Care/Caid funding is tunneled through liberal hospitals (some lead by execs who publicly profess commitment to socialistic models).

These hospitals then dump the funds to foreign bank accounts.

Meanwhile, the primary care physician site only receives about 1% of the total premium paid by the fed to states.

[4CJ]

The bill returns competitive forces to healthcare in our nation.

Granted. But it still leaves the taxpayers to fund it. When the government purchases goods & services, private entities will reduce rates to obtain the business - guaranteed customers/profits on the voulume of business. But the companies shift costs to their remaining customers. The medical practices basically have a medicaid/medicare rate, a state-insurance rate, and uninsured rate, an insured rate, and a rate for cash services. Our taxes pay for the 1st two, the second pair are still paid by us in the form of higher premiums and charges, and cash customers are almost non-existant. Even then, low-income recipients of services can usually have their charges reduced or wiped out by simply placing a phone call - it happened at my wife's office for years, and our local hospital has an entire office devoted to such. The practices have to make that lost revenue up somewhere.

This new legislation specifically creates "FEE FOR SERVICE" models where the physician and hospital are paid ONLY when services are rendered.

A step in the right direction. Just as Medical Savings Accounts are a step, but only add to the bureacracy..

Meanwhile, the primary care physician site only receives about 1% of the total premium paid by the fed to states.

If that happended in a third-world country, we'd go ballistic. Just more proof that the government should remain out of the medical field, and end the socialist program altogether.