"Some ASSHOLE called me a liar. Even after I posted the link, I still didn't get an apology. I flagged the comment as offensive."

Well, you may not be a "liar" in this particular instance, but you sure are a whiney-assed bitch.

A sign of things to come for Medicare?

Obamacare will be great. Sure. Everyone will have insurance, but no one will accept it.

A sign of things to come for Medicare?

#2 | Posted by LIVE_OR_DIE

Absolutely.

My wife works for a health-provider that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Michigan health system. Since Michigan is a public university, by law they have to service any Medicare patient that requests service and they do so at a loss. With the doc-fix in this attrocity of a bill, more and more private health providers are going to refuse to see Medicare patients. This will of course drive them in even greater numbers to the public providers. Doing the math, when a certain ratio of Medicare patients to private-insurer patients is reached, the losses taken servicing the Medicare patients will exceed the profits made on privately insured patients and the public provider will go out of business. This of course will make access to care for Medicare patients even more scarce. But hey, Obama says this bill will strengthen Medicare and improve care and what he says is always an absolute truth.

#4

That would explain why private insurace premuims are going throught the roof. Whenever the govt gets involved in something, it creates these types of distortions in the marketplace.

My wife works for a health-provider that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Michigan health system. Since Michigan is a public university, by law they have to service any Medicare patient that requests service and they do so at a loss. With the doc-fix in this attrocity of a bill, more and more private health providers are going to refuse to see Medicare patients. This will of course drive them in even greater numbers to the public providers. Doing the math, when a certain ratio of Medicare patients to private-insurer patients is reached, the losses taken servicing the Medicare patients will exceed the profits made on privately insured patients and the public provider will go out of business. This of course will make access to care for Medicare patients even more scarce. But hey, Obama says this bill will strengthen Medicare and improve care and what he says is always an absolute truth.

#4 | Posted by JeffJ at 2010-03-19 09:49 AM

Everyone likes to bash on Dr.s' checks, but when the books don't even up it isn't the Dr.s that get sent packing.

I think Walgreens should get a bailout.

I guess Liberals agree with what is said on this thread, otherside they would challenge it.

That would explain why private insurace premuims are going throught the roof. Whenever the govt gets involved in something, it creates these types of distortions in the marketplace.

#5 | Posted by mitch at 2010-03-19 09:57

That's precisely what happened in Cali with Blue Cross. With the economy tanking Medicaid transactions went through the roof (at a government-mandated loss, of course) so the difference had to be made up on the other end.

Is this the same mediciad prescription drug program passed at 3 in the morning by the Republican Congress and gleefully signed into law by President Bush? The one that did not allow the government to use the vast purchasing power of the government to buy cheaper drugs from Canada?

Yea ok.

got it.

Thx Mysteryboy and company for reminding us all of how the Republicans planned to "reform" health care.

On the backs of older Americans on fixed incomes.

Oh I sorry ... that was Mitch the Bitch that posted this story...thx to you too!

Oh well. A lot more poor people with vouchers, with nowhere to cash them.

Welcome to Obamacare, coming soon to a location near you.

Once the Healthcare Industry starts making Medicaid, Medicare, and ObamaCare patients pay cash, you'll see the support for these programs go down like a lead ballon.