“These savings will come from commonsense changes. For example, if more Americans are insured, we can cut payments that help hospitals treat patients without health insurance.”
What BULLSH*T! Translated, it means that the ones who are insured will have to pay for the 38 million illegals who are already getting treated, for free, in the ER, driving up the cost of health care to the payor. Every time that somebosy says we have “47 million of uninsured people,” you now know who comprises the bulk of that statistic.
What “payments” is he going to “cut?” Payments to the insured or to the provider? My guess is cutting payments to the insured, meaning lower reimburements and higher co-pays.
“If the drug makers pay their fair share, we can cut government spending on prescription drugs.”
WTF is their “fair share?” The government could lower drug costs by reducing the FDA’s regulations and red tape in getting generics approved for the market. The FDA does not use any of this time for testing purposes. They never have. They still leave it up to the drug manufacturers to do “clinical trials,” even when so many of them continue to fudge their test data.
The government could lower costs right now if they force drug companies to stop turning out “me, too” drugs that are simply combinations of existing ones, for example, pain medications to which Tylenol has been added.
“And if doctors have incentives to provide the best care instead of more care, we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs.”
MALPRACTICE INSURANCE DRIVES UP COSTS and becomes more and more expensive for a doctor or provider to buy due to so many malpractice lawsuits brought for trivial reasons. To CYA, hospitals and doctors run more and more tests, so there will never be a reduction in testing without concomitant personal liability protection at a reasonable price and stricter limits and penalties placed on frivolous lawsuits.
When a hospital shells out $2 million for a new MRI, they don’t let it sit in a corner, gathering dust: they use it as much as possible on paying patients. Duh, that’s how they get recoup their costs.
And, it oftens pays off in spotting a disease earlier than if there wasn’t one available.
So much for the wisdom of cutting back on tests.
Let the old folks die? A MUST READ
This could be YOU!
Let the old folks die, don’t waste money on treatment, let’s run a little lethal injection thru the veins of D.C. Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the “stimulus” bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement. Bloomberg: “Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.” If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Let’s do it!
To confirm the story, see Bloomberg article link below, just click link below.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
Instead of Hitler’s Final Solution; this will be the Liberal Final Solution courtesy of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the US Congress. You can reach them at 202-225-3121
Let your comments be heard while you still have that right.
excellent post polarik-
[[“And if doctors have incentives to provide the best care instead of more care, we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs.”]]
“The best care” In otherwords- the government is going to be dictating which tests will be approved AFTER a lengthy review/red tape, and ONLY the most critical care/tests will be approved, while tests and care that treat real ailments that can’t be nailed down with a diagnosis, will be uncovered, and millions of people will have to go without medications that treat their undiagnosed pain, exhaustion etc
[[we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays,]]
Translation- We can DENY help for people who aren’t critical but still NEED medical help.
Get ready for a bunch of beurocratic bull crap/red-tape, while waiting months to get your needed treatment/care approved, and be prepared for hte government to make descisions for you as to whether you need it or not, and be prepared to be DENIED and be prepared to be made to feel the fool for seeking help for anything that isn’t critical
The end result, (before the FINAL result,) is that in every capitalist “western” country that has tried this, smart people refuse to become doctors, good doctors stop practicing medicine, leading to shortages of doctors and qualified nurses, which then leads to the importation of foreign, less qualified “doctors” who don’t speak English, (of whom there are already too many,) which leads to malpractice, misdiagnoses, long term disaster, and collapse of the system.
In Britain, muslim practioners’ takeover of the British national health system has resulted in insurmountable infectious diseases, filth, degradation of service, refusal of service, and so on, ad infinitum.
No body gets no thing for free.
MALPRACTICE INSURANCE DRIVES UP COSTS