Obama Offering Advice On Obamacare
In a recent NYT article, President Obama suggested ways to improve the Affordable Care Act, saying “Congress should provide larger subsidies for private health insurance and create a public plan like Medicare to compete with private insurers in some states.” Obama touted the ACA’s achievements, but acknowledged that many Americans still cannot afford healthcare coverage.
Translation:
- Larger subsidies = more taxes
- Create a public plan = Socialized health care
- Americans cannot afford healthcare coverage = no shit, Sherlock
I have an idea…let’s not do any of them.
And before you piss and moan, I do have a way. See this.
The crushing failure of American Business in general is that some things don’t scale. Not everything can be test-marketed, manufactured in China by the containerfull, and shipped to the US distributors. Although the Industrial Revolution showed that automation and large-scaling works well with SOME processes, it does not work with ALL processes.
If our healthcare system continues to follow the general trend, we will have brand-name clinics with anonymous McDoctors who are certified by Cigna and Blue Cross as ‘certified,’ just like the ABMS does, and work as network drones in a box.
We are gambling that the result will be good. In fact, that bet has been made dozens of times in the history of American medicine, and has crapped out. Roll them bones again.