[New Perspective]

Slavitt has promised that between now and January 20 he will impose massive new regulations on the Health Care sector. Who is Slavitt? The single person who controls more of the US economy and American people than anyone else right now. He is the rule maker in CMS over Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, hospital and doctor regulation and most importantly ... the re-distribution of the healthcare dollar. Regulations already imposed in August switch the payment system from Fee For Service (A provider gets paid for service perfoRmed) to VBP. Under VBP the provider is rewarded for choosing patients who have healthy lifestyles and the provider is penalized for providing service to patients with unhealthy lifestyles. Of course, providers with unhealthy lifestyles are Democrats. So then additional regulations will turn VBP into rube=goldberg complexity of counter-balancing interests in equality of distribution.

Thank you very much for posting that information. We need to stay ahead of this as much as possible but it seems like we are losing the battle for our lives.

[kaila]

It is already happening. No provider wants to pick patients which will increase the complication statistic for the provider. Insurance companies and hospitals are already monitoring complication rates of providers. I cannot blame the physicians for refusing to operate on these patients for this very reason.

[spintreebob]

Medicaid is the single biggest item in most state budgets. It is bigger than highways and police combined. Medicaid is bigger than Education in most states.

Medicaid is bigger than highways, police, Education, etc in the Federal budget.

And Medicaid is growing faster than anything else.