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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
No surprise in Massachusetts: Central planning still fails
The Dec. 11 Associated Press article about health care in Massachusetts illustrates why central economic planning will always fail. As Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek wrote: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Continue reading
No equal access with Germany’s “universal” health care
Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, regulation
Tagged equality, global budget, health care Germany, international comparisons
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Medicare’s “global budget” & bureaucratic medical decisions
From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a “global budget” on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine. … If Democrats impose such a commission nationwide, it would constitute a radical change in U.S. health care. … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged capitation, global budget, Medicare access, physicians, rationing health care
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