RandallFlagg
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this is going to limit Obamacare patients....
The New York Post?
Are you kidding? Lefties can't use the New York Times, which, by the way, employed Nixon's ultra conservative speech writer on its Op-Ed Page for a quarter century. The Post is pure yellow journalism.
But I'm going to do something righties never do when someone uses an obviously tainted information source - I'm going to respond to the content, namely that doctors are going to lose some pricing leverage.
It's true - all insurance plans place limits on Doctor's pricing power. My brother-in-law is a doctor and he's always bitching about which insurance plans pay the least. ObamaCare will be no different. Doctors hate when consumers have leverage. This is why they make deals with drug companies to over-prescribe expensive drugs . . . so they can make more money in other areas. The incentive structure is Milton's Firedman's and it goes like this: everybody is acting as selfishly as possible and thereby doing everything and anything to fuck everybody out of as much money as possible. But let's simplify it: of course doctors are going to hate it when the consumer gets a little bit of the pricing leverage back.
I don't think you have to worry though. The capitalist will win this one. ObamaCare will be open to lobbying, and the private sector will use intensive financial pressure to slither its way into the plan's heart where it will pack it with expensive, unnecessary procedures.
Research the Bush era Republican Masterpiece - Medicare Part D, passed by and for Republican special interests and imposed on the tax payer. Elly Lilly - one of the biggest contributors to the GOP - was awarded a no-bid contract to service Medicare patients with pharmaceuticals. Here is the kicker: for Bush Medicare Part D the government was/is forbidden to negotiate for volume discounts. This locks the taxpayer into above market drug costs (because every other market player can negotiate based on being able to deliver higher volume). This is why the private sector secretly LOVES entitlements, because it gives them access to the taxpayer's wallet without having to be disciplined by the market. The dirty little secret of capitalism is that government is now a holding of the Lobbying Industrial Complex. Washington is where capitalism goes to get regulatory favors, no-bid contracts, fixed pricing and monopolies over citizens.
Son, you seem like a good kid who likes to post a lot of Republican Propaganda. You might want to study what actually happens under ObamaCare, rather than listening to a few rightwing hacks in the New York Post. You might discover that the problem doesn't fit into your spoon-fed narrative about how the private sector is getting fucked. You might discover something far more complex, one where the private sector has captured Washington and has colluded with our politicians to put a stern fucking on the consumer. Either way, you're probably not going to get the whole picture from a tabloid.
(You can do better)
i've already been aware of this problem before this New York Post article came out....it's only logical that doctors who spend time and money becoming a doctor want to make a good living in their practice....Obammycare destroys their profits....(along with other things like malpractice coverage)
do you think the insurance companies.....the few that are still remaining in the Obamacare state exchanges.....are going to get favors (i.e. kickbacks) from the government....? price fixing...?
i don't think so.....i believe the lefties are out to destroy the insurance companies....who will pay less and less for care as the costs mount up....the lefties can then point to the 'evil' insurance companies and blame the failure all on them...
then what....? take a guess...
Single payer - socialist medicine. Fundamental transformation of America.