“root and branch” ping
Another way to sock it to those Republican rubes out beyond city limits.
Sounds very Agenda-21-ish.
Also, perhaps this goes hand-in-hand with the plight of physician-owned hospitals, now a relic due to ØBolacare.
Health care deserts.
“.....it’s not sustainable over the long term because what it assumes is balance in the system where non-government insurance, that is private insurance that the people get from their employers, actually reimburses providers at above the rate of cost.”
I guess the rocket scientists have finally deduced the healthcare problem. “Free $hit,” isn’t really “Free” at all!
OTOH, from what I have seen, the HC “industry” is simply kiting the bill so that when they get paid, even by Medicare, they make out. Example: It took my 92 year-old mother five days in the hospital to die. Bill was $50,000. (That, in and of itself is a ripoff because they didn’t do anything but feed her Morphine and give her a bed.) Medicare “disallowed” all but $8,900. and paid 90% of that figure. I paid $980. out of her estate. So I guess if you have private insurance, you get the whole bill.
embrace the bleed
:-(
This all is within the plan of the Regressives who want us all to live in urban areas. This solves many one-driver automobile issues, high density housing that also frees up rural land for “nature”. You can look it up.
This is only the intermediate step to government control. This is the step with government rules that cause private insurance and health care to go bankrupt. Then the state will swoop in to rescue us from private industry that does not work.
Smaller hospitals are in trouble also because the feds are requiring them to get expensive electronic medical record software, costing sometimes millions of dollars, software that has no proven advantages in terms of patient outcomes, but certainly sucks the dollars away from the patient and out of the bottom line. By the way, these software companies are big Obama and Democrat donors. Yet again, Obama and the dems favor the corporatists over the little guy.
Prepare for “cash only” medical care. There will be independent clinics (first aid and diagnosis only), mobile doctors who come to your home if needed, internet doctors (no office appointments or visits - 24 hours availability), self testing and diagnosis kits (with internet analysis and response), off-shore hospitals for hands on surgery, maybe remote surgery through the internet, and other replacements for health care and medical aid in the 21st century. Cash will be king until insurance coverage becomes affordable, if ever, once again. If you have the cash or a medical savings account, you might never need insurance.
Dream on, it will happen...
Ha. This morning, an Obamabot was on Fox News citing KY as one of the wonderful places where Obamacare was working miracles. I guess not.