September 30, 2010
ObamaCare's Redistribution of Health
New projections from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid paint a stark picture of the impact of the ObamaCare law: We're in for a massive redistribution of health resources, says Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York.
President Obama pledged to reduce the number of uninsured by making health plans affordable -- but that's not how his law actually does it. Rather, it loosens Medicaid eligibility by raising the income ceiling and barring asset tests.
* In 2014, a staggering 85.2 million people -- 31 percent of all nonelderly Americans -- will be on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
* This accounts for the majority of those who'd gain health coverage.
* Amazingly, only 3 percent more people will have private insurance.
The new law also stipulates that Medicaid recipients get the same benefits that employers are required to provide workers, diminishing the incentive to work. Why stick it out on the job if the benefits are just as good in Medicaid? asks McCaughey.
To expand Medicaid, the Obama law eviscerates Medicare.
* The new projections show that in 2019, for example, ObamaCare cuts Medicare funding by $86.4 billion -- which works out to $1,428 less for each elderly patient that year.
* Baby boomers will face difficulties accessing care that seniors now get.
* Richard Foster, chief actuary for Medicare, has spoken with brave bluntness about the possible impact, warning that some hospitals might stop taking Medicare patients.
Source: Betsy McCaughey, "ObamaCare's Redistribution of Health," New York Post, September 27, 2010.
For text:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obamacare_redistribution_of_health_TMnDtf46D3hnBOKYee7oGL
For more on Health Issues:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=16
and....
Obamacare Endgame: Doctors Will be Fined or Jailed if they Put Patients First
by Dr. Elaina GeorgeIf Obamacare is completely implemented, doctors will no longer be practicing medicine. They will instead become the drones tasked with deciding who gets the meager healthcare crumbs doled out by the bureaucrats who have the ultimate power over patient life and death. Those who are deemed to have illnesses that require treatments which are not cost effective can expect a one way ticket to a hospice.
Like so many bills passed by Congress, there was a hidden provision in the Stimulus bill passed in 2009. It spends 1.1 billion dollars to create an important piece of the framework for the healthcare bill called the Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. It is based on the false premise that doctors in consultation with their patients don’t have the ability to make the right healthcare choices (see executive summary). The council consists of 15 people appointed by the President.
They all have one thing in common–they are all isolated from day to day patient care; and therefore, are insulated from the real practice of the art of medicine. It makes it easy to see patients as a cost center to be controlled. With views of members like Dr Emanuel, who champions the complete-lives system, it is hard to ignore the probability that senior citizens, those with chronic illness, and the very young will be on the outside looking in. This council is another example of the people of this country being told by the government that it knows what is best for us.
The framework set up by the stimulus bill merely set the stage for the implementation found in the healthcare reform bill. How can the government get doctors to participate in Obamacare thereby a) willingly destroying the doctor patient relationship, and b) betraying their Hippocratic Oath to provide treatments that they deem to be effective? Simple – fear and intimidation.
A second board created by the stimulus bill called The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology “will determine treatment at the time and place of care”. They are charged with deciding the course of treatment for the diagnosis given by the doctor. Now it becomes obvious why there has been a big push towards the implementation of universal electronic medical record use. It becomes a tool to completely control the physician and the patient. Those physicians and hospitals that choose to practice individualized patient care in consultation with their patients will be punished because they are not “meaningful users of the system over time.” Beginning January 1, 2013 penalties for doing the right thing for a patient will cost the doctor $100,000 for the first offense and jail for the second offense. This will have a chilling effect and may be the straw that completely breaks the foundation of good medicine – the doctor patient relationship.
46% of physiciansin a survey by The New England Journal of Medicine stated that they would leave the practice of medicine if Obamacare was implemented. This will only further decrease the quality of healthcare when the 30 million more people enter the system. Maybe that’s why there is a big push in the healthcare bill to increase the number of other providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners. There is no question that rationing will become our future. If you add 30 million more people into a system with fewer resources how could you possibly avoid rationing? Perhaps those members of Congress who passed this nightmare don’t care since they made sure that it wouldn’t apply to them.
They all have one thing in common–they are all isolated from day to day patient care; and therefore, are insulated from the real practice of the art of medicine. It makes it easy to see patients as a cost center to be controlled. With views of members like Dr Emanuel, who champions the complete-lives system, it is hard to ignore the probability that senior citizens, those with chronic illness, and the very young will be on the outside looking in. This council is another example of the people of this country being told by the government that it knows what is best for us.
The framework set up by the stimulus bill merely set the stage for the implementation found in the healthcare reform bill. How can the government get doctors to participate in Obamacare thereby a) willingly destroying the doctor patient relationship, and b) betraying their Hippocratic Oath to provide treatments that they deem to be effective? Simple – fear and intimidation.
A second board created by the stimulus bill called The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology “will determine treatment at the time and place of care”. They are charged with deciding the course of treatment for the diagnosis given by the doctor. Now it becomes obvious why there has been a big push towards the implementation of universal electronic medical record use. It becomes a tool to completely control the physician and the patient. Those physicians and hospitals that choose to practice individualized patient care in consultation with their patients will be punished because they are not “meaningful users of the system over time.” Beginning January 1, 2013 penalties for doing the right thing for a patient will cost the doctor $100,000 for the first offense and jail for the second offense. This will have a chilling effect and may be the straw that completely breaks the foundation of good medicine – the doctor patient relationship.
46% of physiciansin a survey by The New England Journal of Medicine stated that they would leave the practice of medicine if Obamacare was implemented. This will only further decrease the quality of healthcare when the 30 million more people enter the system. Maybe that’s why there is a big push in the healthcare bill to increase the number of other providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners. There is no question that rationing will become our future. If you add 30 million more people into a system with fewer resources how could you possibly avoid rationing? Perhaps those members of Congress who passed this nightmare don’t care since they made sure that it wouldn’t apply to them.
27 comments:
"46% of physicians in a survey by The New England Journal of Medicine stated that they would leave the practice of medicine if Obamacare was implemented."
Wow, is that lie still making the rounds in your neck of the woods? I feel for you, Radar. It's so hard to find reliable sources, isn't it?
To expand Medicaid, the Obama law eviscerates Medicare.
Um, Medicare is socialized medicine. Don't you guys want to eviscerate Medicare?
Way to go commenters, pay no attention to the facts at all and support Obama at all costs!
Dems take over both houses, spending goes up. They refuse to stop the Fannie Freddie ACORN madness until everything collapses.
Obama comes in and leads a charge to borrow more money, print more money, spend more money while passing laws that cripple business and will raise the prices of everything and ruin healthcare. Debt goes through the roof, unemployment soars and you guys are all fine with that. Figures.
Any time you post a source that makes libs and dems look stupid the source will be bashed, rather than challenge the points on their merits radar. You should know that by now.
"Way to go commenters, pay no attention to the facts at all and support Obama at all costs!"
Way to go, Radar, pay no attention to the facts at all and demonize Obama at all costs!
"Dems take over both houses, spending goes up. "
Reps take over both houses, spending goes up - see 2001-2006. Funny how that works.
But you're implying a cause and effect that I suspect you can't back up. Surely you know that a large part of the spending this past year was an economic stimulus package that was designed to save/create jobs - and which it succeeded in doing.
Are you against jobs being created and/or saved?
And given the situation, what alternative would you have proposed?
"Surely you know that a large part of the spending this past year was an economic stimulus package that was designed to save/create jobs - and which it succeeded in doing."
wow way to spin the white house talking points. they couldn't back them up either though.
"46% of physicians in a survey by The New England Journal of Medicine stated that they would leave the practice of medicine if Obamacare was implemented."
This is a complete lie. It has been proven to be a lie. It has also been pointed out to both you and highguy on many occasions that that statement is a lie. The fact that you still trot it out as fact says A LOT about the nature of this blog. When you've got truthiness, who needs the actual truth.
Oh and can you remind me what Bush did about your oft repeated "Fannie Freddie" nonsense? And what happened to government spending in the 8 years prior to Obama? And who was it that signed the stimulus package again?
Anyway, I hope that this type of alarmist, ignorant and petty mudslinging ends up encouraging more Democrats to vote by its sheer ugliness. And by showing that you right wing extremists will say and do anything to get back into power.
- Canucklehead.
"Anyway, I hope that this type of alarmist, ignorant and petty mudslinging ends up encouraging more Democrats to vote by its sheer ugliness. And by showing that you right wing extremists will say and do anything to get back into power."
can't wait to view your disappointment, especially since your country is a shining example of what a failure left wing policy actually is.
Well, Canada's healthcare system was still good enough for Sarah Palin...
"Well, Canada's healthcare system was still good enough for Sarah Palin..."
Wasn't good enough for me or the 838,000 people who were waiting for a bed in 2009.
So do the majority of the Canadians want their healthcare changed from public to private?
(I assume the Canadians don't give a damn what an American thinks about their health care system)
"(I assume the Canadians don't give a damn what an American thinks about their health care system)"
just like most Americans don't give a damn what tool Canadians like Canuck think about their government.
"So do the majority of the Canadians want their healthcare changed from public to private?"
highboy thinks this question is stupid because he came up to get his theological "education" in Canada, was here for a year or two, admittedly did not use the Canadian health care system even once, and that was enough for him to decide that he knows better than Canadians that actually use the system their entire lives. Wait, who's the "tool" again?
Oh and if you don't care what I think hb, why the hell do you ALWAYS respond to my comments?
- Canucklehead.
"was here for a year or two, admittedly did not use the Canadian health care system even once, and that was enough for him to decide that he knows better than Canadians that actually use the system their entire lives. Wait, who's the "tool" again?"
1. 3 years.
2. Nope, never admitted to not using the healthcare system. My son was born in it. What I said was that I didn't get my healthcare paid for here by the Canadian government, despite the fact my son is a legal citizen.
3. Yes, I know more about your system than you do. Its not hard.
4. You are still the tool.
5. The idea that most of the Canadians (though I doubt the 838,000 who had yet to be seen by a doctor) would prefer their system doesn't validate its system. By that token, the fact that most Americans DON'T prefer your system over a private system would validate our system.
6. I respond to your comments because its fun to do so. You're a joke. This is me laughing.
"The idea that most of the Canadians (though I doubt the 838,000 who had yet to be seen by a doctor) would prefer their system doesn't validate its system. By that token, the fact that most Americans DON'T prefer your system over a private system would validate our system. "
Logic fail.
"Logic fail."
Brilliant rebuttal. lol.
If you don't see it, you don't see it. Your problem, not mine.
"If you don't see it, you don't see it. Your problem, not mine."
which is another way of saying that you made a statement you can't back up, which is actually your problem, not mine.
6. I respond to your comments because its fun to do so. You're a joke. This is me laughing.
This is why I love it when highboy joins in. Like with his buddy Radar you only need to type one or two lines to get him into furious reply mode and get 10 or 20 hilarious lines back. The thinly veiled anger and frustration is just the cherry on top.
Highboy, as long as you keep us entertained by delivering your comic relief no one will deny you your fun. After all, with you the investment always pays off LOL!
"Highboy, as long as you keep us entertained by delivering your comic relief no one will deny you your fun. After all, with you the investment always pays off LOL!"
and now you smokescreen your incompetence by pretending you keep responding over and over again because its fun, while mocking me for responding over and over again. I hope you continue to humiliate yourself in this fashion.
I'll think I'll try that from now on. I'll make claims I can't back up and when asked to verify I'll just pretend like I'm having fun at someone else's expense. Of course it will take a while to downshift that fast....
I hope you continue to humiliate yourself in this fashion.
I'll be happy to do so, if it results in you posting these hilarious replies and providing me with gratuitous entertainment.
We're both winners here, Highboy! ;-)
Oh, highboy --you're the Dwight Schrute of the internet. Don't ever change.
"I'll think I'll try that from now on. I'll make claims I can't back up and when asked to verify I'll just pretend like I'm having fun at someone else's expense. Of course it will take a while to downshift that fast...."
What're you talking about? You and your buddy Radar make claims you can't back up all the time. No "downshifting" of any type necessary.
http://johnnydollar.us/files/101107fhwir.php
If you guys only read media matters and Huffington Post and etc. then of course you have no idea of the dangerous waters we are in. Obama keeps printing money and his anti-business practices are killing the economy. We are entering stagflation, last brought to us courtesy of Jimmy Carter, now produced at lightning speed by the Obama Administration because, like Rep. Dingell said, it takes a lot "to control people" and that is all Obama is after. He is willing to kill the economy and ruin people's lives in order to assume control of the nation.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/24/dingell-it-will-take-a-while-for-obamacare-to-control-the-people/
And let's not forget that Maxine Waters said that the administration was seeking to "nationalize" businesses. If you go far enough back on my blog you will see the youtube of Waters and I believe Frank defending Fannie and Freddie from concerned Republicans back before the 2006 election, when McCain and Bush, among others, said the crazy loans and the loan bundling had to stop or the economy would crash.
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