do I really have to say it???
This IS rationing!
You better get out and vote for Romney to keep Obama from getting a second term.
Think -- the life you save may be your own!
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They just passed this in Massachusetts
you have to alert the MA government if you change any price or service.
PRICE CONTROL AND RATIONING
“I’m sorry, your treatment is too expensive and you’ll have to do without it”
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How long before they cut out dialysis?
Insurance schemes pulled into the claws of government are going to suffer like this.
Could we cut expenses by having fewer tests? Of course, but let’s put a muzzle on malpractice lawyers first.
The Feds want the states to be the rationing proxies. The states will make hospitals their rationing proxies. Providers will work for hospitals
as rationing proxies.
The goal will be to provide as little care as possible. Doctor and provider shortages will ensure limited access which will help reduce costs. Of course, some doctors will retire and others will transition to all cash practices further reducing supply and access.
do I really have to say it??? healthcare budgeting ... meaning you wont get everything you need/want and your care is decided on by others
in other words....
death panels.
who could’ve seen this coming??
Sarah Palin was right, ‘death panels’ are a coming!
Bump
Budget? He can’t even get the fiscal budget passed.
Lest us not forget, our current system has either the government or the insurance companies making decisions about our healthcare and tacking on huge costs.
I don’t want either insurance or government. I favor migrating to a system that removes the need for a middleman. Middlemen only increase costs and distort need while generating billions in unnecessary treatments. Our medical system is costing too much and not getting the results.
The end result should be if someone needs treatment and doesn’t have the money then borrow it, or have your kids pay or take out a mortgage. Soon we’d find the $50K hospital costs reduced to $10K or less. Let the market decide and we’d soon see huge reduced costs in healthcare and it would not come from rationing. In the 60s a patient could actually borrow and pay the costs of hospitalization with a modest loan.
No longer would drug companies waste billions on advertising for drugs people can’t afford. But that would upset those who profit in the media. You would not have millionaire lobbyists like Billy Tauzin trying to scam taxpayers for his industry.
The system has become so distorted by excess money and the fraud of insurance that those without it can’t afford to pay. This ends up distorting the free market for providers and customers and encourages employers to move their jobs offshore. We’ve lost good jobs because of the costs and market distortion.
A top-down budget for health care? What could go wrong?
Why not go ahead and develop a Health Care 5 Year Plan?