Via Instapundit comes this sober assessment of the ultimate fate of Obamacare: ” The program may be shaping up as a modest expansion of Medicaid, coupled with a more robust version of the old high-risk pools.” …Can we just establish something, here? ‘Expanding Medicaid,’ as Medicaid is currently configured (and the Democrats did pretty much nothing to reconfigure it), does not actually help poor people. It hides them – because, hey, they’ve got health care insurance now! …Which doctors don’t want to take, and when the doctors do take it the coverage isn’t very good, and there’s no driving urge on the Left’s part to fix things because, hey, Medicaid is health insurance!
…Which doctors don’t want to take, and when the doctors do take it the coverage isn’t very good, and there’s no driving urge on the Left’s part to fix things because, hey, Medicaid is health insurance!
…Which doctors don’t want to take, and when the doctors do take it the coverage isn’t very good, and there’s no driving urge on the Left’s part to fix things because, hey, Medicaid is health insurance!
…See where I’m going with this?
So .. we’ve established that the left, as always, are satisfied to *not see* the poor, or the results of their policies.
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What’s the *real* fix?
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How do we get *good* health care *cheap* enough (hint: market forces) that *even* Medicare (and it’s Quasimodo-cousin Medicaid) are “good enough”…
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Mew
It’s been a while, but once upon a time public hospital administrators were happy to see Medicaid patients because that meant the hospital would get paid something, at least.
And if you want market forces to work, lawsuit reform probably should be involved somewhere.
Unfortunately, I am of the opinion that “fixing” our healthcare system is what got us into this “fix” in the first place (all the way back to Title XIX to the Social Security Act). The “gubemint” is not going to fix this mess.