http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/11/health-care-reform-bill-opinions-contributors-david-gratzer.html
Here's what it will change. First, there will be an immediate surge in employment (in Washington). In the bill, the secretary of health can spend billions right away to staff the new public insurance, to fund the National Health Corps and to pay for new committees, agencies and studies--a list that's actually too long to fit onto a newspaper page.
Second, there will be an immediate shift in medical power. Federal agencies and legislators will have undisputed authority over health care decisions once made by doctors or state legislatures. A committee, for example, will decide which preventative care treatments must be covered in every insurance policy--an added cost for you, yes, and potentially without benefit. States and health innovators will likely defer new initiatives while they wait in limbo for Washington to resolve regulatory questions unanswered in the bill.
Finally, your premiums should rise. That's right--rise. Most Americans' first experiences of ObamaCare will be higher premiums, just as RomneyCare in Massachusetts led to higher costs. That's because new federal regulations will change how insurance is priced and sold.
Now this may just be me talking, but higher premiums, a larger government, and government-controlled healthcare isn’t change that I can believe in. I certainly can't believe in this garbage.
Can you?
I would say that the little guy in Bama...will notice three obvious things by 2014 (two years into this).
ReplyDeleteFirst, Medicare recipients will find more doctors have a limit on how Medicare players they will accept. So you won't be able to go to the nearest doctor...and may have to travel thirty miles to find "a" doctor who will accept you as a regular.
Second, I think folks will find that generic drugs are the norm under the new program...and find that they don't quiet do everything as the real drugs offer.
Third, I believe that guys that weigh more than 300 lbs or gals who weigh more than 200 lbs...will be the first group to find procedures cut off from their options until they lose fifty pounds. They will then be humiliated over the deal...refuse to go to the doctor for anything...and the death rate by 2016 will soar high enough for a congressional investigation.