Obamacare, as with the silly left wing fantasy of ‘free’ government run health care, has an appointment with failure. Modeled after the UK’s failing National Health Service, Obamacare is guaranteed end up withthe same medical disasters as the NHS:
In an article for The Daily Telegraph, Andrew Lansley says the core values of the NHS are under threat as never before from a “financial crisis” that will see annual health spending double to £230 billion a year without urgent reform.
While insisting he would never privatise the NHS, Mr Lansley warns that its future as a universal service, available to all and free at the point of use will be at risk “within years” if radical change is blocked.
Sounds eerily familiar to the financial diagnosis for Medicare – the crumbling foundation underpinning Obamacare. The pathetic and sad truth is that, despite the politician’s claim to contrary, the salvation of NHS lies on the shoulder of private health care providers in the UK (where all people with money actually get their health care).
the Health Secretary’s article will be seen as a clear reaffirmation of his belief in the reforms, which would abolish two tiers of NHS management and allow GP-led consortia to decide whether to buy treatment from local state-run hospitals or private providers.
Is anyone going to believe treatment will be most cost effective from the management and bureaucracy heavy NHS hospitals – or the free market driven private providers? The guy can pretend all day long salvation is not coming from the free market, but without the option to save costs outside the NHS there would be no salvation.
Medicare and the National Health Care Plan and not modeled on the same basis (the UK model, as the author conflates)–medicare seems to have some relationship to the UK/Canada model, but our national health care plan seems to be more consistent with the Swiss or German plans.
But, in any event, an affordable national health insurance plan is important because we don’t all have the option of being covered by a government plan–also like I suspect the author does.
@Liberal1 (objectivity), what delusions of pious omnipotence do you draw on to assume you know AJ Strata’s health care is from the government?
To set the record straight: The left wants Obamacare to morph into the UK model – they made that clear during the Obamacare discussions. Today’s Obamacare is just step towards the ultimate goal.
And no, as a small business owner I pay my own way – thank you very much. Only lazy liberals require the guidance of brain dead bureaucrats to make decisions for them (which puts them pretty low on the self sufficient scale!).
27 states* have sued ObamaCare and are taking their case to the Supreme Court.
14 of those states have filed amicus briefs as friends of the court (of the individual mandate case.)**
06 states have been given waivers from ObamaCare BY Obama! (Maine, Nevada and Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee).
*These 27 states:
Virginia
Florida
South Carolina
Nebraska
Texas
Utah
Louisiana
Alabama
Michigan
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Washington
Idaho
South Dakota
North Dakota
Arizona
Georgia
Alaska
Nevada
Indiana
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Ohio
Kansas
Maine
**These 14 states:
Alabama
Florida
Indiana
Kansas
Maine
Michigan
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
If those 6 states are forced to pay all ObamaCare costs they are now waived from, they, too, will file against the program.
They are being bought off.
Many other states are requesting ObamaCare waivers.
I’d say is it doomed for sure.
@Nan G: It’s pretty safe to say that if this attempt to overextend the Constitutional powers of the Federal Government had been done properly and there would have an amendment to the Constitution put for vote granting them those powers, it would have failed and quite miserably at that.
I am a physician currently serving in Afghanistan on my last of 3 combat tours. I already have a job lined up in a very nice civilian hospital after I retire from the military. I can tell you that if obamacare is not repealed and some government bureaucrat starts telling me how to practice medicine and arbitrarily decides my income based on some idiotic formula that has nothing to do with the value of my services, I will not remain in the practice of medicine, at least not in the US. I am most certainly not alone among physicians in this regard. From whence will all the “free” medical care come if there are no doctors to be enslaved to provide it?
Liberal1,you are a disgrace,we are short of doctors now,a lot of doctors are not taking medicare pts. anymore.get your head out of your ass.