How Will Obama’s Health Plan Avoid Rationing?
December 7th, 2009Please don’t tell me health care is rationed today – I’m not asking about the present. I want to know how Obama’s program won’t cause more.
Please don’t tell me health care is rationed today – I’m not asking about the present. I want to know how Obama’s program won’t cause more.
Many people are asking the very same question, despite denials by the “pushers” of this nightmare Bill. I believe it is more a question that anyone with common sense, can feel there is no way this can NOT impact and be a cause of rationing certain care.
I’ve attempted many times to “interpret” what little is being released as “resolved” already, but whether by intention or accident, I doubt anyone can understand the fine print. Besides, it will go from being “agreed” on by the politicians, into a vote within a few days. Congress can’t afford to put this in front of the public, just like the failed Stimulus. IF this passes, it will be just another nail in the U.S. coffin.
The answer is simple. Obama care won’t avoid rationing. Rationing is a necessary tool, one that the the Republican part has fought hard to keep in place.
The point that a lot of people seem to forget is that Obama-care is not designed to be a replacement for premium health care, it’s a scheme designed to provide the average American with an every day health care package with chronic/serious care cover. It is not designed ot replace premium health care. It’s for poor and breadline families and will provide them with a much higher level of cover than they currently have.
There will be a cap, but it will be set sufficiently high that most Obama-care users will never not hit it. It will cover most standard meds and treatments for most medical conditions, but it won’t cover experimental unproven care except as part of legitimate trials, and it won’t cover freaky new age/pseudo science treatments like Aromatherapy or all that rubbish with crystals and pyramids.
You won’t hit the cap if you get the flu, or have a heart attack, or get diabetes. Or other serious illnesses. but you won’t be allowed to have a sex change or a cosmetic nose job.
You say that you don’t want to hear about the current system, but it is essential to hear about it in order to get a balanced picture. A lot of Americans have rationed health care under the current private system, and for a lot of them the cap is LOWER than under Obama–care. They will be rationed care but it will be better than they have at the moment, and cheaper, too.
Obama would like an unrationed system, but Republicans won’t stand for it. It would mean a tax hike.
Health Care’s Six Money-Wasting Problemshttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/10/news/eco…http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Health-car…
by Parija B. Kavilanz
Monday, August 10, 2009provided by
More than $1.2 trillion spent on health care each year is a waste of money. Members of the medical community identify the leading causes.
Down the drain: $1.2 trillion.
That’s half of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on health care each year, according to the most recent data from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute.
What counts as waste? The report identified 16 different areas in which health care dollars are squandered. But in talking to doctors, nurses, hospital groups and patient advocacy groups, six areas totaling nearly $500 billion stood out as issues to be dealt with in the health care reform debate
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Read it all or it is a waste.
I believe it is headed in the correct direction. If you read the article, you can ask your congressmen how these are being dealt with and I think that if these are the issues now being discussed, we could wind up in a good place.
Another point… these are the advisors and they impress me a great deal. Make sure you look at the board of the organization.http://www.medpac.gov/
There is no reason to imagine there won’t be problems. What you propose seem more like fear mongering than constructive criticism.
By telling you that rationing will not exist. Simple.
Pretty much what the previous answer said.