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This article states, “There were restricted networks, there were gag orders forbidding physicians for discussing patients’ alternative, albeit more expensive health care options. … This infuriated the American public,” McMahon said.”
Please keep in mind, those terrible HMOs, which “infuriated the AMerican public” were a creation of COngress, as envisioned by TED KENNEDY and the DEMOCRAT PARTY. How did that go for everyone, huh? Now, these same idiots are trying to do the same thing, but this time with EVERYBODY’S HEALTH INSURANCE! What we are seeing now is nothing more than the same, warmed-over, failed Kennedy/Democrat Party program that was delivered before, via the “Health Maintenance Organization Act” of 1973.
What happened last time these jackasses screwed with our healthcare? Lawsuit after lawsuit. The public grew to HATE HMO’s. The costs ran rampant, after goin gdown for a short time. Ultimately, PPO networks (a PRIVATE solution to the hated government HMO programs) began the grow and thrive, as the public no longer wanted the government-forced rationing model (which is the EXACT SAME MODEL for Obamacare).
This leads to a logical question of who are the bigger fools? The jackasses in Congress who force-fed us this garbage, or the idiot lefists who keep voting for the jackasses?
Bravo!
Are the ACO’s another name for Death Panels which restrict coverage in the name of cost control? Will we have bureaucrats making life and death decisions on people on their plans? Where is Tort Reform in this picture? Doctors practice medicine defensively because of fear of lawsuits. No wonder they order numerous expensive tests before deciding what to do. If they can’t figure it out, they refer to another doctor who repeats the tests all over again. No wonder Healthcare costs so much in this country.
Let’s all listen to Mike N as the country goes bankrupt with medical bills.
I guess Mike likes the system whereby those of us who purchase insurance get to pay for the freeloaders who show up at emergency rooms for their health care. The Heritage Foundation wrote the MA RomneyCare law and it includes an employer mandate and individual mandate. They crowed about it at a Heritage event and Mitt glowed with pride… flip flopping away……. Insurance companies currently are the death panels… they cap the amount they will spend on coverage, they deny “experimental” treatment, they refuse to pay for 2nd opinions and they can go months without scheduling you appeal… yeah. we need protection all right.. from the current industry and the status quo!
Nan, It looks like from your comment that you would prefer the Obamacare nightmare costing $1,762 Trillion versus the $75 Billion it would cost to provide Pool coverage to all those freeloaders. We either bankrupt the country or not. This country cannot provide free healthcare for all those who have chosen not to buy it or are illegal and shouldn’t get it to start with.
What about ACOs’ bundled seevcirs and the impact on patients and families?A colleague whose oncology group is being acquired by a hospital recently lamented that now patients will receive multiple bills for physician seevcirs, facilities fees, diagnostic seevcirs, etc, where before they only received one.