The goal is for the hospitals to fail and for the federal government to have to swoop in and save them. Thereby in effect running the hospitals. The regardless of what laws are in place, or what plans are available, you will only receive care of what the government wants you to receive and when they want you to receive it. Wealthy or not, you will be beholden to the government to survive. This will only make the government more powerful and regardless of Democrat or Republican, they will endorse it. At that point it will take 100 years to bring our health care system back to what it is.
If you work at a hospital I am sure you have seen the retirement of many PCPs and other GPs.
When you add millions to the rolls, but haven’t added Doctors—you have an imbalance that is really going to screw up the system.
I believe the goal of the Obamacare folks is not health insurance reform, but rather the consolidation of healthcare and insurance into a single entity.
The result will be the complete collapse of the personal insurance industry and the destruction of the medical elite. If the specializing doctors cannot make their big payday, they will stop moving their careers along. OR they will simply move over to an all cash elite only medical system.
In the end, this will have wide ranging impacts on the medical field, the insurance business, and the research industry. Yes, the field will be leveled. Along with a huge portion of our economy.
100 years from now the medical practice in the country will rival that of the 1930’s before medical insurance became a benefit as a reaction to wage and price controls during WWII.