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发帖数: 29846 | 1 This Is What Government-Run Health Care Looks Like
Posted 01/13/2014 06:24 PM ET
Socialized Medicine: More than two-thirds of the public don't think the
government can be trusted to run the nation's health care system
successfully. ObamaCare is proving these skeptics right.
The public might not agree on much these days, but one thing it
overwhelmingly believes is that government is ill-equipped to manage one-
sixth of the economy — 67% said so in the January IBD/TIPP poll.
This distrust has only gotten worse as the ObamaCare debacle unfolded,
climbing 4 points in one month. Even Democrats — at 44%, up from 34% the
month before — are increasingly skeptical.
Little wonder, since every day ObamaCare provides fresh evidence that
government can't do the job.
First were the massive technological failures at the health care exchanges,
millions of unexpected policy cancellations and sky-high premiums.
Then we saw the administration's frantic efforts to delay and rewrite rules
to minimize political fallout.
Now, we read stories about people who thought they'd enrolled in a plan but
hadn't, or were told they hadn't, or nobody seems to know for sure.
And doctors, pharmacies and hospitals are now spending countless hours
trying to figure out who's covered and for what. Often, even doctors don't
know if they're in an ObamaCare plan's network.
The left-wing Huffington Post tells of a cancer patient who had to put off
surgery because nobody could tell whether she was covered, even through she'
d enrolled via an ObamaCare exchange in December. It took intervention by
the head of her state's exchange to sort it out.
Meanwhile, many plans say only 60% of signees have paid their first premium
so far. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield reports that as of Jan. 3 just 8%
of those who signed up with Connecticut's exchange had done so.
As a result, even though insurers pushed back payment deadlines that they'd
already extended once, many of the 2 million who signed up for ObamaCare
will end up disenrolled — creating yet another crisis.
On top of all this, we're learning that the industry will likely need a
bailout in the near future, since the young aren't signing up as hoped.
Humana, for example, announced in its latest 8-K filing it "expects the risk
mix of members enrolling through the health insurance exchanges to be more
adverse than previously expected."
ObamaCare conveniently provides for such a bailout through the law's "risk
corridor" program, which is designed to limit industry losses in the first
three years.
Confusion, bureaucracy, delays, crony capitalism, taxpayer bailouts. This is
what health care under government control looks like. And this is just the
beginning. | o*****t
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: This Is What Government-Run Health Care Looks Like
: Posted 01/13/2014 06:24 PM ET
: Socialized Medicine: More than two-thirds of the public don't think the
: government can be trusted to run the nation's health care system
: successfully. ObamaCare is proving these skeptics right.
: The public might not agree on much these days, but one thing it
: overwhelmingly believes is that government is ill-equipped to manage one-
: sixth of the economy — 67% said so in the January IBD/TIPP poll.
: This distrust has only gotten worse as the ObamaCare debacle unfolded,
: climbing 4 points in one month. Even Democrats — at 44%, up from 34% the
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发帖数: 23482 | 3 medicaid management program这种公有民办的东西到底算是政府管还是私企管？ |
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