Whаt аrе thе pro’s аnd cons fοr both doctors аnd patients…
I lіkе thе quality οf care thаt i receive now bυt thе price οf medical care іѕ sickening & unaffordable tο pretty much everyone. Hοw wουld thіѕ look shape care? If уου gеt tο pick уουr οwn doctor hοw wουld thіѕ look уουr treatment? Hοw саn ουr country realistically afford tο pay fοr shape care? Arе taxes going tο gο up tο pay fοr thіѕ whісh іn thе еnd іѕ thаt even saving americans cash?
Give mе ѕοmе facts аbουt thіѕ shape care рlοt
What is going to happen is the Government is going to set the rates doctors can payment for air force. Doctors cannot afford the rates so they will overbook people to get the most cash they can so you will go to the Dr personnel and wait for several hours and maybe even have to restore the next day. Dr groups will get larger and overbooking will be even more and waiting will be longer. Just reckon of going to the Dr and there being 100 patients in the waiting room to see a Dr.
Should see cash come the way of average Americans in the form of tax cuts for everyone making less than $250,000. When the Bush tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy expires in 2010, that should provide excellent revenue. More jobs, more take-home pay, sounds like a recipe for recovery. Brilliant!
Also was reading an article about how two-thirds of Corporations in America paid no taxes at all between 1998-2005. I reckon if we could start collecting on some of these dead-beats by our country and not paying their honest share, that should be some excellent revenue as well.
Gov’t regulation of shape care will force companies to lower their costs, they won’t make as much profit off of you. Insurances companies have always been a heartless evil. Everyone desires quality care….we just need it at an affordable rate. What did Walmart do when it came to town? It place the small guys out of business and made the key players reduce their prices to compete. Not that I reckon Walmart is the almighty or anything….its just about basic competition and answerability. Basically, we can sell it for less. Do you want to pay more?
They don’t have a plot, thats why people are upset, nobody knows, Obama always speaks in generalizations, the 1,000 page bill is only a collection of thoughts, no specifics except whatever we get the dems left a loophole for up to 20 million illegals (and family) to get it, the GOP tried to stop it but out voted 29 to 28. Even the Gov budget director says we can’t afford it and it won’t work, add another 20 million people.
the ama and hospital groups support obamacare. the broadcast option would compel insurance companies to lower costs.
then why does blue cross say they can’t compete with the broadcast option?
you get less than you pay for from the current shape insurance companies.
the cbo says obamacare is not likely to add to the deficit.
You’re going to get what you pay for. That is an axiom that will never change, regardless of a government mandate or not (and really, where the government is involved, you generally get LESS than you pay for).
Its hard to predict pros and cons because nothing like the currentlyh proposed thought has ever been implemented in the US. It has in other countries with mixed results. The best way to look at things is to review how things are now and what will change…Most people don’t know exaclty what is out there now….if you questioned people they would agree it is terrible but most couldn’t offer you an explanation as to why it is terrible. I don’t claim to know everything about the matter but I will give you my OPINION of our current system and the new bid and howw it will change both.
Ancient. Our current system mostly allows individuals and businesses to hegemony which insurance plans are offered and the insurance plans choose what is covered and what is not. For most this means that the insurance companies choose what gets done. Prices are enormously high for the uninsured, part because there is small competition for insurance but part because Hospital and Medical Overhead run real high. To protect the poor and underinsured the goverment has been paying for shape centers across the nation to give basic care. But the poor and underinsured still lack ability to get specialty care. Another vital aspect is that the goverment ddoesn’t dictate that all businesses give their employees medical benifits. One aspect that neither ancient or new addresses is uncomplaining education which i personally wish they would.
Under the current sytem, Doctors get paid decent with specialists getting paid better….insurance companies also get huge benefits and the lower and middle class if there is such a thing have less access to care.
Under the proposed plot…the goverment will offer a plot to “compete” with the other insurance plans. The goverment gets its cash from taxes amongst many other things whereas the insurance companies get their cash from premiums. Therefor the goverment plot will be very cheap for nearly everyone. Instead of the insurance companies deciding what gets covereed the goverment will. Indirectly this means that the goverment will choose what happens to you (note the insurance companies do that now). The plot also requires small businesses to offer shape benifits would can be excellent for businesses that do well but could be terrible for those that struggle. Because of the low cost of the plot most businesses if they are looking to cut costs will scoop up the plot. As attested by medicaid/medicare the goverment plot will have less coverage than most existing insurance plans. These things mentioned are factual although I am a small fuzzy on the small business part. From here on the rest is just a guess on how it will change patients and doctors and that is the only thing anyone can offer is a guess
The left will say the new plot will bring doen costs and provide the greatest access to care ever seen. Patients who could not get in to see a doctor before will be able to afford it now and the general practitior wont get paid any less. They will use countries that have implemented similar plans and have had success with it as an model.
The right will say tell you the goverment will take over your shape care and that insurances wont be able to compete with the low price. If they drop their prices the reimbursement rates to the doctors will go down and the doctors won’t get paid as much. If the doctors (specialists mostly) don’t get paid as much potential doctors will consider alternate careers. The cost of medical education runs 200-500 thousand and around 8 years of post college education. They will not want a pay cut. There is also speculation that the current batch of doctors won’t be able to handle the new numbers of patients who now can afford care. The right will argue that quantity will become more vital than quality. They will also sight countries that have similar plans that have disastrous. The right will also argue that the only way to pay for the curriculum will be higher taxes
who is right…we wont know
My guess is that both right and left are right and incorrect…they both tend to highlight the pros of their thoughts and not the cons