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#thanksobamacare – Your doctor won’t be accountable to you, but to “society”
[U]nder ObamaCare, your doctor will be increasingly pressured into sacrificing your individual medical interests for a nebulous “social justice.” Continue reading
Dangers of Accountable Care Organizations
So-called “Accountable Care Organization” pits doctors’ financial incentives against what is best for patients. Continue reading
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Will ObamaCare produce cascade of insolvent Colorado insurers?
ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. …[In] Colorado, where one large health plan has already announced plans to leave the state, Graham’s analysis demonstrates a “cascade” of insolvency, whereby only five of the ten largest plans in 2009 will be operating in 2017. Continue reading
“Accountable Care Organizations”: The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care
In the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs). Continue reading
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What’s wrong with “evidence based medicine”?
John Goodman lists the problems with “evidence based medicine.” Think of it this way: What if there were a rule that says you can’t do anything during the week unless it is on the calendar by Sunday. Call this “calendar-based scheduling.” Instead of being an aide, the calendar would quickly become an oppressive barrier to your freedom of action. Continue reading
Accountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.” Continue reading
Health care “reform” and “accountable care” vs. doctors’ autonomy
Under ObamaCare, doctors “lose their ability to practice medicine as they envisioned. The government will be making so many decisions about how doctors will be paid, what they will be paid, and what type of practice they can establish and operate.” Continue reading
“Accountable Care Organization” Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit
Obama administration’s efforts to promote accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare are failing because they are “premised on the fatal conceit that government experts can direct the market better than millions of consumers making their own decisions.” Continue reading
Obamacare’s Big Brother: Accountable Care Organizations
The fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they’d rather be ‘accountable’ to their ACO paymasters rather than patients. Continue reading
Politically-controlled exchanges & ACOs are about authoritarian control, not competition & accountability
“ObamaCare will force health plans to provide a nonnegotiable package of benefits, but will hold premiums at a level that will make it impossible to meet the full demand for that care. Instead, costs will be controlled by squeezing provider incomes and delaying access to care.” Continue reading