This is so sad, but yet another prediction coming true. Health "coverage" and "care" are not the same thing. The goal of any serious health reform is not to get people "coverage" but ultimately increase access to quality to actual CARE. That means more facilities, not fewer. Obamacare does the exact opposite. Fewer new facilities will be built, existing facilities will not expand or even scale back because of the law.
However, since this person is "covered" - they count as a success story.
As with liberalism in general, celebrate the symbolism and ignore the problems.
“The goal of any serious health reform is not to get people “coverage” but ultimately increase access to quality to actual CARE. That means more facilities, not fewer. Obamacare does the exact opposite. Fewer new facilities will be built, existing facilities will not expand or even scale back because of the law.”
And the other thing that serious reform needs to do it to address the overall true cost of providing quality healthcare. In there zeal to get everyone’s private medical records computerized (so they can slice and dice you to see if you are worth treating) they have driven the cost sky-high. Now when we go to the doctor, he/she spends most of the “exam time” pounding away at a laptop instead of trying to find out what’s wrong with one of us. This whole sorry RAT- developed “system” is so ass backward it would be laughable if it weren’t deadly. Our only hope is that it is so bad that no amount of BS rhetoric will be able to cover it’s early collapse.
My wife just had open-heart surgery. The “visiting nurse” tells us that she has to go in after hours on her own nickel to enter “patient data” into their hospital’s new medical records system. She says that it is affecting her ability to provide patient care. There are literally tens of thousands of “codes” to describe in minute detail what they are doing to/for you.