This was the plan all along....a single payer system completely run by the government. I believe that’s why they keep cutting medicare provider payments. It’s a way to run the doctors and hospitals out of business.
“This was the plan all along....a single payer system completely run by the government. I believe that’s why they keep cutting medicare provider payments. It’s a way to run the doctors and hospitals out of business.”
True. Aided and abetted by corporate America. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s corporate America not only outsourced millions of jobs, it eliminated the defined benefit pension system. Through the first decade of the 21st century, businesses shifted more of the burden of rising health care costs to employees through higher deductibles, higher premiums, and reduced benefits.
Today rising health care costs are the biggest uncontrollable expense on most company P&L’s. Offloading this expense on the government will result in a major improvement in profitability for most businesses, even if they pay the $2000 per employee fine for not providing health care. If the employer share of an employee’s health care cost is $5000 to $8000 a year today, the decision to drop health care insurance for employees and pay the $2000 fine is the logical choice.
The $2000 fine on employers who drop or don’t provide health care coverage was a brilliant economic incentive to force the adoption of the single payer government system. The government will enjoy billions in revenue from this new tax as employers drop millions of employees from company sponsored/funded health care program. When millions of employees with preexisting conditions find they can’t buy coverage in the private sector, or the available coverage in the state pools is too expensive, they will be screaming for the federal government single payer system. Democrats and limp Rino Republicans politicians will gladly provide it for them.
Unless the Obamacare requirement that all Americans purchase health care is struck down by the Supreme Court, the game is over. Boehner and the House Republicans clearly have no appetite for doing anything to defund, modify, or roll back Obamacare. There will be no action to reform Obamacare in the Senate while Harry Reid is in charge. It is beginning to look like Obamacare will be implemented on schedule and the implementation plan will ensure the citizens demand it be converted into a single payer system run by the government.