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So how did we miss this? Like in "The Big Short," nobody asked those actually working in the doctor's offices their opinions. Dr. Tommy McElroy, CEO of an innovative concierge practice, Echelon-Health, is puzzled: "When the [ACA] was written, nobody came around to ask doctors what would happen when the most complicated patients were shuttled to the exchange plans. A small practice can't survive; that's why doctors are being bought up by hospital groups or abandoning insurance altogether for membership medicine."
With more doctors jumping ship and healthy patients choosing to take the annual penalty rather than buy extremely overpriced exchange plans, what's left to avoid a healthcare economic freefall? President Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton both have recently touted a renewed push for a government funded "public option." What irony, as the "public option" looks an awful lot like the government bailout of the mortgage banks. Only here the big health systems and insurers are too big to fail.
"The Big Short" opens with Mark Twain's thesis, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Providing affordable insurance to the chronically ill is a dilemma. Those who were certain the healthy exchange customers would flock to pay for health insurance that is starting to cost more than their mortgages were just flat wrong. Hopefully a more humble answer is found before this bubble bursts. The big ObamaCare bubble
Another example of the imbeciles running our government!
The ACA paves the way for fully nationalized healthcare. People will clamor for it. In my opinion, that was the long game.
Yep. Devastate the insurance industry and make healthcare so unreachable for the average American that the government will be "forced" to step in and take charge. The lies about saving $2500 per family and "If you like your plan you can keep your plan" were only told in order to ram Stage 1 of nationalized healthcare through.
And of course the politicians and their rich and famous friends will be held to different standards and will obtain the best private care available without the rationing or long waiting times endured by the little people.
Single payer is so terrible and anti-American - they just could never openly say that's what they want. They have to create long term schemes to implement it.
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