Posted on 08/26/2010 3:42:42 AM PDT by Scanian
While many of Obama Care's major pieces won't kick in until 2014, a few big changes are already under way -- and offering an early taste of what's in store for American health care. It ain't pretty.
Think: greater government control, less competition and fewer options for consumers.
As early as next month, for example, the administration is expected to unveil its definition of "unreasonable rate increases." This is its way of dictating premiums.
It's also drafting a slew of new regulations -- mandating everything from the kinds of benefits health insurers must offer to how they spend their revenues. Some of the new rules will force millions of seniors out of their current Medicare Part D drug plans, even though the program has been highly successful.
Start with the new regs and the government's attempts to set insurance rates. The result is entirely predictable: Some health plans will inevitably quit the market.
State "exchanges" -- through which consumers will be able to buy federally subsidized, privately run health insurance -- are scheduled to be up and running in 2014. But the Health and Human Services Department regulations will make it hard for insurers to do business in these new programs -- so many simply won't.
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They will NEVER get away with this, believe me.
Every single day, another negative consequence rolls out of this miserable bill, whether it’s the attempts to ration medicine, or the latest, screwing up the college student’s insurance system.
They are trying to pull this over on a population that gets pissed off waiting in line for a postage stamp.
Like an onion, this will be peeled apart layer by layer, if need be or in one big chunk in 2013. But gone it will be.
Someone asked me yesterday why this won’t survive but SS and Medicare did. The answer is simple:
Social Security and Medicare were set up (cynically, I might add) based on a future promise: Give up a little bit now, that you won’t notice missing, in exchange for something good later on. And it was set to benefit the MAJORITY of the American public.
This bill is the exact opposite of that.
Obamacare takes a LOT from people now, and they are already noticing it, btw, and they are mad. What they get in return later on is something worse than what they currently have, and the privilege of paying more for it. Moreover, this plan benefits a tiny slice of the electorate, at the expense of the majority. The poor will fare worst of all, btw. They are counting on a “promise” of better health care, when, in fact, they are going to be dumped into the broke, ineffective Medicaid system. Which doctors are fleeing. They are going to learn that it does no good to be in a system of insurance in which there are no providers.
Finally, don’t forget this:
With all the monkey business used the pass this bill, they made a critical drafting mistake. I posted about this a few weeks ago. There is NO severability clause in the final version. That clause is standard in all contract/legislative work that keeps the rest of the thing in place if a part of it is found to be invalid or unconstitutional.
If any court makes a final finding that any part of it isn’t kosher, the ENTIRE BILL IS DEAD. No further action is required.
The feds are looking for doctors like nobody’s business. Have been, off & on, all year.
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Why should we pay for something we aren’t going to get?
I see money being paid to slush funds. This is definitely how they plan to transfer money to themselves and how they will become rich and you poor.
Keep a watch on Soros and co. They seem about ready to split.
My ER Nurse/Wife says that Doctors are looking at retirement big time. She says the cuts in medicare will be the last straw for many of them.
Just say NO to Obamacare.
This sounds like they are introducing law concepts into their bureaucratic takeover of private industry. Nothing will ever get done by Democrats without bringing along plenty of new business opportunities for trial lawyers.
Look for the courts to start throwing parts of Obamacare (like this out) and for the liberal courts (read 9th circuit) to stand out like sore thumbs.
I was already informed that part of my Company’s coverage will be changing next year. Coincidence? I think not. Now, we don’t have the details just yet. We were only told coverage and premiums were changing. Now, should I believe the liar-in-chief that more people will be covered, there will be no rationing, costs will go down, and I’ll get to keep my same provider? {snort} I’m thinking that not a single one of those claims will prove true.
We will need Mitt Romney with his OUTSTANDING business skills, good hair and GOP/RNC connections to ‘fix’ Obamacare.
Yup.
(/sarc)
Please elaborate.
My premiums went up 25 percentast month alone.
All of this stands in sharp contrast to the approach government agencies took when they tried to create a new market for drug insurance in 2006.
When Medicare created its Part D drug benefit in 2006, the market exploded with hundreds of drug plans, giving consumers lots of options. The rules were purposely written to encourage plans to enter the market and allow them to turn a profit. The idea was that, after the market matured, competition would quickly make prices fall.
It worked. The costs of drug coverage have remained well below government estimates while the market has remained highly competitive.
An interesting fact for those who continually rag on Bush's prescription drug plan.
"Congress shall not impose any mandate to purchase any product on any individual."
I hadn't heard that one yet. How does it affect a student's insurance?
It’s already been reported he is taking his money out of the stock market.
btt
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