Standing Up
I found this article, which I found kind of interesting. It is about this female doctor who wrote a letter to Aetna terminating her agreement with them. Here is a sentence:
“Obamacare, the ‘law of the land,’ contains ever-changing-at-the-whim-of-HHS, politically expedient mandates, rewards, penalties, rules and regulations with which I cannot rationally or morally treat my patients and run a practice, much-less interpret, implement, or comply.”
Was she brave? Maybe. But she is wrong about Obamacare. It may contain the problems mentioned above but they were being forced down our throat for years and WE let it happen.
The website is very right wing so I couldn’t palate all of it. The issue is that we should all walk at one time and let these idiots figure out how to get their clients treated. That is all the power we have left.
It’s always fun to witness selective moral outrage. I wonder whether the author has ever described Medicare/Medicaid in similarly excoriating terms? Establishment “right-wingers” and most U.S. doctors discredit themselves by pretending that government medicine may be “preserved and strengthened” while maintaining a “free” insurance market. The market is not free, and the socialist systems are ruining the economy. Whether someone is adding an additional ROS to upcode to a level 4, adjusting the paperwork to meet an Aetna pre-cert for an MRI, or ordering an approved CMS “core measures” antibiotic instead of that indicated by the sputum culture, makes little difference.
The large insurance companies might have been evil enough on their own, but could have been held in check by the market. However, becoming allied with the power of big government added their corporate power to the critical mass of corruption, and Big Insurance will progressively become the henchman for CMS.
ObamaCare is only an acceleration of very, very bad ideas implemented in 1965. The article is correct in noting that the goal of the statists is, as it has been for over 40 years, social control. The doctors of that day are the biggest villains of all in this tragedy. They acceded to a loss of moral authority that has since corrupted virtually every one of us.
I’ve never been an AMA member, but they’ve been sending me JAMA for the last decade.
Here’s the summary, a great study with controls:
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1832540
Absolutely devastating.
That’s the only power we’ve ever had, and to wield that power is precluded by antitrust laws. The only other option is concierge medicine, where we take insurance companies out of the equation.
Agree. This is just business as usual for CMS and the insurers, and we can’t say it started with Obamacare. Look forward to your comments on the JAMA take-down of the PCMH.
Where is that JAMA take-down? Is there a link?