important quotes from an article about recent healthcare research:
Government health insurance unquestionably functions as income protection. What’s less clear is whether it functions as health protection.
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But at this point, the only two large-scale randomized control trials that we have done on the benefits of paying for peoples’ health care have both come back showing surprisingly small effects.
As they say, read the whole thing.
Here it is.
Don’t kid yourself. Already I know several practioners and groups who won’t take insurance at all, and they will just give you a receipt–reimbursement is between you and your insurance company, but YOU pay cash for the services at the time of service. “Boutique” or “DPC” medicine has really taken off. The only ones with “insurance” will be those on welfare. I myself won’t take insurance, and like many, have moved to areas without it. It’s just too costly and I’m not going to hire someone to sit on hold for hours and try to get the money I’m owed. And Obamacare only accelerated the process. A two-tiered system will be all there is. There may be “catastrophic” insurance and insurance for surgery, but little else. Yeah, that’s what “insurance” is all about.
You will see prices come down dramatically once people are directly paying, both for services and for drugs. You will also see the costs of medical school tumble. Already Wal-Mart has a large number of common drugs for $5 a month, and other chains have followed. Far more drugs will be OTC, like birth control pills (it is a scam that women have to pay for a yearly doctor visit). I recently saw a formerly prescription-only acid reflux pill OTC at Costco. Believe me, you can get it a whole lot cheaper now than when you had to go to a doctor to get it. Huh. Why did the price go down? And the generics are truly dirt cheap. The left just doesn’t understand the magic of the market…
I honestly don’t know why you would be. Sometimes I just wanna say, “DUH!” I just don’t get the fantasy-based “thinking.” More to come…
for Obamacare.
No question, Obamacare is an amazingly stupid set-up. But this kind of system is rigidly (and exploitatively) adhered to by leftists everywhere. It’s foolishness.
This is the logical fruit of socialized medicine. Remember when the Japanese revered and honored their aged? Me, too (I lived in Japan). And this in a culture that historically has lauded a “noble” suicide and stresses “honor.” This is a preview of coming attractions for the US. Under socialized medicine, the aged are a “burden” born by working people.
What did old people ever do for ME, anyway? I personally will NEVER get old and disabled. This is nothing but offensive.
Try being an adjunct faculty member. You’ll quickly find out that SOME animals are more equal than others…
save us? We can all hope so.
It is the last chance to kill this pig. But it simply is not in the states’ interest to implement the exchanges. I hope they refuse.
go wobbly on Obamacare. Even now, it could still be rendered null and void. Third (and final) line of defense, though.
But there’s no question that states could simply refuse to create exchanges, and then the federal gov’t would have to do it. It certainly would be the best move for most states. We’ll see what happens…