Obama Healthcare Proposals
Obama Healthcare Proposals: Are you against it?
If you thought the dog and pony show put on by the troika made up of insurance companies, hospitals and doctors was going anywhere, I have beach front property in Arizona to show you. The May 11th demonstration put on by the Obama administration purported to save US consumers two trillion dollars in costs over the next decade. However, now the honeymoon is over. Not so, says the industry, hospitals and doctors.
In a New York Times article by Robert Pear, hospital executives agreed to slow the rate of growth of health care spending. But they did not agree to trim it by the 1.5% each year over the next decade as Obama expects. This is where the two trillion in savings would be obtained. The government says any drop in the average spending increase of 6.2% a year in health care costs, would help. We expect to spend 4.4 trillion on health care in 2018. The federal government also warned us recently of the pending insolvency of Medicare and Social Security systems. In each area, we need to make significant changes to eliminate deficits and provide a solid basis of funding.
Pear reports that not only are the members of the troika backing off some of the points of agreement, but it is unlikely the federal government will allow this to happen due to antitrust laws. To adjust prices at a top or bottom limit by a group of doctors, insurance companies and hospitals would be against the antitrust laws now on the books. History does not support the likelihood that the Justice Department will allow such things to happen. Nor have the courts supported it. Justice and the FTC are afraid that collusion and cooperation among the troika may help consumers by lowering prices but may also help empower them in negotiations. Uncle Sam stopped it before, but maybe this time it’s different.
Elsewhere, the conservative faction is beginning their TV campaign to fault the Obama health care agenda. Janet Adamy reports in the Wall Street Journal that several groups are starting to produce ads that campaign against the Democrats and Obama health care agenda. They will show British and Canadian patients and doctors in their productions excoriating UK and Canadian socialized medicine. A patient with a growing brain tumor is told to wait for her appointment which is six months away. Just the thing we Americans want in our system. They want Max Baucus’ to keep his promise that the solution to our healthcare troubles will be “a uniquely American solution.”
May 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
OBAMAS PLAN IS NOT WHAT HE PROPOSED BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT.IN HIS CAMPAIGN HE SAID OVER AND OVER STORIES ABOUT HIS MOTHER DYING FROM CANCER IN A HOPSITAL BED ARGUING WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY ABOUT PAYING THE BILL.HE NOW REVESRSES EVERYTHING HE SAID,BY TRYING NOT TO HELP THE HEALTH INDUSTRY BUT HELP THE MILLIONERS AND USELESS TO SAY THAT CONGRESS HAS BEEN BORROWING MONEY ON SOCIAL SECURITY BY GIVING OUT IOU’S. COME ON PRESIDENT OBAMA GET IT RIGHT.STOP SAYING ONE THING AND DO ANOTHER.DO NOT MISSLEAD THE PEOPLE THAT ELLECTED YOU
THANK YOU
JOHN JUANOPULOS