ratilfar says: Myth 5: Unlike private insurance, government bureaucrats will ration care. This line also makes government the enemy. "You may want healthcare that your doctor has prescribed for you," Peter Ferrara, of the anti-tax, anti-government Institute for Policy Innovation, wrote on the National Review last month. "But the rationing bureaucracy in Washington that doesn’t even know you, or your doctor, may decide that your doctor doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or that you are too old for the government to pay for your hip replacement to stop the pain, or to get an expensive triple bypass or a pacemaker operation to save your life." Since the Obama administration keeps talking about encouraging doctors to shift to outcome-based pay scales and evidence-based guidelines for what treatments or procedures to use, opponents don't have much trouble painting a troubling picture of faceless government hacks denying the care you -- or your loved ones -- need. Rationing care is what America has now, with Health Insurance Accountants deciding on what healthcare people are allowed to have based on just profit margins and stock prices, rather than based on the actual person's needs. The gall of the Right Wing; itemizing the very flaws in the current American Healthcare system, and accusing the reformed system of having the very things it will actually fix. They're lucky that God doesn't directly intervene in the world; otherwise there would be a lot of smiting among the Republican Party in Washington these days. Time to start referring to all Republicans as "Congressman/Senator Pants-on-Fire, from the State of Hysteria". We had enough of that in the BCE days, I can't imagine an messier world if he, or should I say He did that these days. |
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