I don’t consider myself an Obama hater. He seems like a nice guy to me. I just don’t like a lot of his policies. The whole Affordable Care Act was a backroom deal with the insurance companies and we are all pawns in the game. My question is why hasn’t their been more accountability for his lies? Too harsh? See below:
The article in Forbes entitled Why This Is The Hardest Of Times To Be A Physician…
6 thoughts on “36 Times and Still No Accountability”
So, maybe, just maybe 8-10 million more people are covered now. So what? They still can’t get health care. And the rest of us suckers are paying much, much more for much much less.
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I think we all can remember the supporters of the ACA saying something along the lines of, “The medical system is so screwed up in the U.S., how could it be any worse?” We now have the answer to that.
The high deductibles should bring more market forces to bear in the consumption of primary care health services, so hopefully Direct Care practices will thrive. After all, why pay corp med twice as much to see an NP in an office which is more like a factory than a doctor’s office?
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But the bad news is – you can’t build the Palace of Socialism, and put in a back door. Then you wind up with an empty palace.
If DPC becomes embarrassingly successful – which it will – it can’t escape the mediocrity bureaucrities in Washington.
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The ACA was built on assumptions that could never be true. You can’t pass mandates that change health plans while also claiming you can keep your current health plan. You can’t provide coverage for an additional 20-30 million people and pretend nobody will have to pay for it except the rich. Add to that EMR mandates, meaningful use, ACO’s, PQRS and many other “improvements” that have never been shown to save money or improve quality.
If anyone pointed these things out they were accused of being evil, uncaring or greedy. if you point them out now you will be told the ends justified the means since more people are now covered.
In one sense there has been accountability since Democrats have paid a price for this law, especially in the 2010 elections. There will never be individual accountability though since the people who constructed this continue to tell themselves they did a great job. Look at Kathleen Sibelius, who oversaw the department that totally fouled up the ObamaCare website but was portrayed by the administration as the “fixer-upper-in-chief”. The GOP is too inept and partisan to ever actually hold anyone accountable, and the Democrats think they did a bang-up job on the ACA.
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You pretty much nailed it, Randy. Couldn’t agree more.
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Perhaps, not harsh enough. I don’t have access to the real statistics but in my practice things are not better. Fewer patients have insurance, those that do are paying about twice as much for half the coverage, the number of self pays has doubled. The use of the emergency rooms is up by twice in many areas. Once more the middle class has been screwed over.
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So, maybe, just maybe 8-10 million more people are covered now. So what? They still can’t get health care. And the rest of us suckers are paying much, much more for much much less.
I think we all can remember the supporters of the ACA saying something along the lines of, “The medical system is so screwed up in the U.S., how could it be any worse?” We now have the answer to that.
The high deductibles should bring more market forces to bear in the consumption of primary care health services, so hopefully Direct Care practices will thrive. After all, why pay corp med twice as much to see an NP in an office which is more like a factory than a doctor’s office?
But the bad news is – you can’t build the Palace of Socialism, and put in a back door. Then you wind up with an empty palace.
If DPC becomes embarrassingly successful – which it will – it can’t escape the mediocrity bureaucrities in Washington.
The ACA was built on assumptions that could never be true. You can’t pass mandates that change health plans while also claiming you can keep your current health plan. You can’t provide coverage for an additional 20-30 million people and pretend nobody will have to pay for it except the rich. Add to that EMR mandates, meaningful use, ACO’s, PQRS and many other “improvements” that have never been shown to save money or improve quality.
If anyone pointed these things out they were accused of being evil, uncaring or greedy. if you point them out now you will be told the ends justified the means since more people are now covered.
In one sense there has been accountability since Democrats have paid a price for this law, especially in the 2010 elections. There will never be individual accountability though since the people who constructed this continue to tell themselves they did a great job. Look at Kathleen Sibelius, who oversaw the department that totally fouled up the ObamaCare website but was portrayed by the administration as the “fixer-upper-in-chief”. The GOP is too inept and partisan to ever actually hold anyone accountable, and the Democrats think they did a bang-up job on the ACA.
You pretty much nailed it, Randy. Couldn’t agree more.
Perhaps, not harsh enough. I don’t have access to the real statistics but in my practice things are not better. Fewer patients have insurance, those that do are paying about twice as much for half the coverage, the number of self pays has doubled. The use of the emergency rooms is up by twice in many areas. Once more the middle class has been screwed over.