Déjà Vu All Over Again
Headline: President Identifies $200 Billion in Payment Cuts to Hospitals
Hospital Association Response: "Payment cuts are not reform."
Memories: Fifteen years ago, all the special interests were willing to sell out to Hillary Clinton. They were willing to damage the American health care system as long as they got a few extra dollars for themselves. Even today, they still haven't learned an important lesson.
Lesson: All over the world, it's the same. The parties of the left only know two ways to control health costs: (1) squeeze the providers and (2) deny care to patients. They don't believe in markets. Or economic incentives. Or entrepreneurship. So the only thing left to do is to take it out on doctors and patients.
Dedicated to all those who are selling out.
Great song pairing.
Problem is, the song applies to almost everyone in Washington. Do you know anyone who isn’t selling out?
Agree about the song. It could easily be the theme song on K Street.
First off, Hillary was shot down by the insurance/pharma industry and so the supposition that everyone was waiting to “sell-out” is completely false.
Second those of us on the “left” are not attacking doctors (providers), nor are we denying care for patients, the present system does enough of that itself.
Third- care is at present rationed and determined not by the patient nor by the physician but by the beaurucrats running insurance scams.
Fourth- It is common sense that if the number of un-insured is reduced then payments to hospitals to cover those uninsured costs would go down. Only conservatives would try to make an arguement out of this. They would rather hospitals recieve the same amount for doing less???? Hospitals re-gain most of their yearly un-insured losses and by providing adequate insurance this financial drain would be solved thereby saving money it plain common sense- something lacking from the conservative arguement.
Fifth- at present there is no competition among healthinsurance or pharma companies. The “free-market” has done nothing to control costs and to continue to claim that some vague distance in the future that there will all of a sudden be savings and cost controls is un-realistic. It hasn’t happened because there is no free-market…. again common sense will tell anyone that.