"Obamacare" ( Archived) (15)

One reason we're opposed is because of the mandatory provision. Everyone has to opt in to the government plan or be fined (the Supreme Court idiotically called it a tax, when it's a penalty.) We are a freedom-loving bunch down here, and the idea of being forced to do something we don't want to do irritates the daylights out of us. We love choices, and with this plan, there really isn't a choice. Also, employers and employees will be soaked to the max in fees. It will cost us a lot more now for healthcare than it would if this stupid plan hadn't come along. Finally, no one understands this plan, not even the ones who voted it into law.

"Experience and the law of unintended consequences suggest the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" will neither protect patients nor make health services affordable. Actual caring will resemble that of the U.S. Postal Service. Services will be rationed and denied in arbitrary manner after long waiting, as in other countries with government health systems. Advocacy groups will institute something like a 'disease-of-the-month-club,' to apply political pressure to cover various conditions. In short, decisions which ought to be made by patients and physicians will instead be made by cold, distant bureaucracies. Switzerland has a market-based system which works. Care there is as good as in the US at 58% of the per capita cost. Such a system was not even considered here, because the goal is government control, not accessible, affordable or quality care."

It will result in long waits to see a doctor, large increases in costs, demoralized doctors and nurses, angry patients, and rationing. The government will dictate which services will be paid for and which will not (death panels). Old sick p...eople will become disposable. It is unclear whether those who might wish to pay for non-covered services with their own money, will be allowed to to so. Can you imagine that??? At least in other countries with socialized systems, one can go outside the system and pay for non-covered services. It is likely that we in the 'land of the free' will not be permitted to do so.


The Take on Obamacare by a Doctor Friend of mine.