The Affordable Care Act's Rate-Setting Won't Work (Howard Dean!)

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 28, 2013 | Howard Dean

[neverdem]

Howard Dean, MD, sounds rational again.

Wasn't the Independent Payment Advisory Board made as a law by itself, separate and distinct from Obamacare?

[Red Badger]

Rate control will do for healthcare what rent control has done for NYC housing.........

[no-to-illegals]

Don’t worry howard there are built in payment increases for all choosing to sign the contract or enrollment form.

[no-to-illegals]

yes howard if you practice as an MD, your payments are cut each year.

[Jim Robinson]

Communism never works.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Howard Dean (Doctor and Liberal Dem) having a problem with Obamacare.

Tom Coburn (Doctor and allegedly Conservative Republican) apparently does not.

[PGR88]

Howard Dean unabashedly a supporter of single-payer, nationalized health-care. As far as he is concerned, Obama-care is a sell-out and delay to his preferred choice.

He wants Obamacare to move to nationalized health-care as soon as possible.

[dragnet2]

Obama Care is DOA.

[G Larry]

Price controls only serve to strangle capitalism.

They have no place in a free economy and in that view, they never “work”.

If, however, your goal is to kill capitalism, then they work.

[Paine in the Neck]

Precisely. It will become, scarce, expensive and of poor quality.

[Red Badger]

I predict a resurgence of witchdoctors, shamans, voodoo practitioners, spiritual healers and other assorted bamboozlers and con men to fill the gaps........

[SumProVita]

One more of MANY reasons why we need LOTS more people to sign Ted Cruz’s petition to DEFUND Obamacare.

http://www.dontfundobamacare.com

That number needs to be in the millions.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Obamacare is designed to fail and lead to a single-payer system. Howard Dean needs to get with the Alinsky program.

[Paine in the Neck]

I predict a resurgence of witchdoctors, shamans, voodoo practitioners, spiritual healers and other assorted bamboozlers and con men to fill the gaps........

That's essentially what happened to British health care. The talented were driven out and shortages are filled with third world, third rate butchers. The same will happen here.

I predict that vets will also do well. Lots of folks will be having problems with their 'large dogs'. Of course, since we'll all be reduced to eating dogfood maybe that makes sense.

[GeronL]

scream it from the rooftops...

[Red Badger]

We have / had the most advanced and practical healthcare system on the planet. People from all over the world came her for the latest treatment and medicines. Now it’s going to be the other way. We will have to go to Mexico or some island in the Caribbean to get even basic healthcare needs met......

[Menehune56]

Obamacare is designed to fail and lead to a single-payer system.

It's pretty clear that the corporatist goal is get out of the business of having to provide healthcare to employees, retirees, and dependents. They want to push the costs directly onto the government and therefore the taxpayer. This explains why the GOP establishment is allied with the leftists to make this happens in the very near future.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Obama Care is DOA.

And the rotting corpse will lie in our nation's living room for decades.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I predict a resurgence of witchdoctors, shamans, voodoo practitioners, spiritual healers and other assorted bamboozlers and con men to fill the gaps........

We got one of those on the radio here about 37 hours per week. During the election he was a big, big BIG booster of Obama and Obamacare. In hindsight I suppose because destroying the existing health care system was going to be good for his business.

[Elsie]

I’d wondered what ever happened to Howard!!