Future of Healthcare

I did a quick search on him. He owns 5 clinics and has a bunch of other docs working for his business.

 

From a fishwrapper in PE's home state:

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/11/...m-isnt-obamacare-its-the-insurance-companies/

 

Actually not a well written article. He blames the insurance companies for Reimbursement rates. However in large part it's actually cms rather than insurance companies that do it. Which sends you right back to the aca.

 

If it goes tits up within the next four years the Democrats will find some way to blame it on the Republicans.

 

Well it is kinda their fault that after they bitched and bitched about it ( IMO justifiably) they were not smart enough to actually have a viable solution to fixing it when given the opportunity...

 

I noticed he was dumping the insurance companies that were stiffing him, but he was hanging in with the state of Maine system, which is also screwing him.
I sense he may be a bit biased.
It doesn't seem to occur to him that the ACA just can't deliver what it promised.
Somehow, somewhere, somebody has to actually pay for stuff, and if they can't, someone has to have their money or labor unfairly taken to make up the difference.
I hope his analyzing skills are better when it comes to medicine than they are with economics/

 

Seemed to me that he separated out cms when speaking of the private insurance companies.

Personally - I think it's both.
I do tend to trust the docs more than the insurance companies though.

 

IMO government is more responsible than anyone. Every time they "fix" something there are unintended consequences that create far more problems than they just solved. Anything that the insurance companies are doing now are because of that poorly written shit sandwich called the ACA. Blaming the insurance companies is just what those clown politicians want us to do as it diverts the blame off of them.

 

Fix the cost of care and insurance will follow.

 

Food for thought: The only link ever found for higher concentration of people with pacemakers in a given area was the presence of a cardiologist.

Capitalism, while the better economic system, has its limits....

 

Duh....not many cariologists' in Somalia....probably not many pacemakers either.

 

Tort reform and legislation that makes it more difficult for lobbyists to buy off politicians would be a good start to that but will never happen as it would negatively impact the pocketbooks of those lying cheating cocksuckers in government.

 

I know, which is the basis of my argument that traditional laws of economics can never be applied to healthcare - in most cases you simply don't have the choice to shop.

 

I don't know why I keep coming back to this thread. Maybe it's out of total curiosity. I just can't wrap my head around not having healthcare. Not passing judgment, its just all I've ever known.

I cut my hand, went to emergency, got stitched up, no bill. Had a bad cough, went to my doctor, got xrays, had pneumonia, got antibiotics, couple days rest and I was good to go.

Probably the most profound thing is that my eldest son was born 11 weeks early. He spent 7 weeks in the NICU, one of the best facilities in the country. We didn't pay a thing. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to worry about paying for something like that. I can only guess the hundreds of thousands (I'm guessing?????) that would cost in the US.

I'm trying not to pass judgment, but man, how do you guys deal with the stress of racing knowing that you may have to pay out of pocket for injuries? Or how does that work?

Sorry to go off on a tangent, just trying to understand.

 

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