Post by acptulsa on Mar 26, 2017 7:11:30 GMT -8
The most amazing thing about this so-called health care bill news coverage right now is how BOTH sides of the conversation--BOTH sides--completely ignore the main point. The government gets involved and costs go up. A law called 'affordable care' is an oxymoron and an unfunny joke because government involvement drives up costs.
Medicare originally allowed all the extra costs to be charged to medicare. A provider could have one set of prices for medicare patients, which were structured to cover the costs of using compliant sources, ensuring patient compliance, keeping up with the changes, documenting compliance, and paying the fees that enable the government to process that documentation and ensure that compliance. Cash health care customers did not require all that, charging them for all that would have been a complete ripoff, and they had their own price structure.
Then, one fine day, the politician chorus started yapping that this two-tier price structure was tantamount to 'cheating Medicare', and the Obedient Press obediently parroted that even though they knew there was another side to the story. Cash prices went up, private insurance went up, and more young, healthy people were forced to opt out. It wasn't that they didn't want the protection. They were priced out of the market.
Then came Obamacare. There's a reason no one calls it the 'Affordable Healthcare Act'. It's clearly there to force the last of the uninsured and the last of the health-care-for-cash doctors to stop making people well without the aid of a ream of paperwork and a few dozen bureaucrats to process it. The 'Affordable Healthcare Act' is just like your local Murder Statute. It isn't there to make murder happen, but to eliminate it, and the ACA is there to eliminate affordable health care.
Affordable health care is not dependent on healthy people paying insurance companies 'just in case'. Before the bureaucracies took over, most people could afford health care. Health care was more affordable then, for the simple reason that it was less expensive.
You can listen to thousands of hours of television and radio, day and night, and even see microphones pointed at dozens of allegedly conservative Republicans, both in the media and in office, and never hear these simple truths come out of their mouths. Paul Ryan didn't say it. Trump never said it. No one says it--on either "side of the aisle".
Until someone does, things will only get worse.
I'm not mourning this Ryan health care bill. It's the same engine to drive up health care costs done in a more fiscally irresponsible manner. If we want health care expenses to stop rising exponentially, we are going to have to drown out the media and the 'I'd be dead without Obamacare' ignoramuses they love to point microphones at. The rising costs are going straight to overregulation, compliance costs and bureaucracy. Only by cutting this overhead will we make health care affordable again.
Medicare originally allowed all the extra costs to be charged to medicare. A provider could have one set of prices for medicare patients, which were structured to cover the costs of using compliant sources, ensuring patient compliance, keeping up with the changes, documenting compliance, and paying the fees that enable the government to process that documentation and ensure that compliance. Cash health care customers did not require all that, charging them for all that would have been a complete ripoff, and they had their own price structure.
Then, one fine day, the politician chorus started yapping that this two-tier price structure was tantamount to 'cheating Medicare', and the Obedient Press obediently parroted that even though they knew there was another side to the story. Cash prices went up, private insurance went up, and more young, healthy people were forced to opt out. It wasn't that they didn't want the protection. They were priced out of the market.
Then came Obamacare. There's a reason no one calls it the 'Affordable Healthcare Act'. It's clearly there to force the last of the uninsured and the last of the health-care-for-cash doctors to stop making people well without the aid of a ream of paperwork and a few dozen bureaucrats to process it. The 'Affordable Healthcare Act' is just like your local Murder Statute. It isn't there to make murder happen, but to eliminate it, and the ACA is there to eliminate affordable health care.
Affordable health care is not dependent on healthy people paying insurance companies 'just in case'. Before the bureaucracies took over, most people could afford health care. Health care was more affordable then, for the simple reason that it was less expensive.
You can listen to thousands of hours of television and radio, day and night, and even see microphones pointed at dozens of allegedly conservative Republicans, both in the media and in office, and never hear these simple truths come out of their mouths. Paul Ryan didn't say it. Trump never said it. No one says it--on either "side of the aisle".
Until someone does, things will only get worse.
I'm not mourning this Ryan health care bill. It's the same engine to drive up health care costs done in a more fiscally irresponsible manner. If we want health care expenses to stop rising exponentially, we are going to have to drown out the media and the 'I'd be dead without Obamacare' ignoramuses they love to point microphones at. The rising costs are going straight to overregulation, compliance costs and bureaucracy. Only by cutting this overhead will we make health care affordable again.
