How Would Health Care Reform Effect Doctors And Patients In America?
Posted on 23 February 2010 by admin
What are the pro’s and cons for both doctors and patients…
I like the quality of care that i receive now but the price of medical care is sickening & unaffordable to pretty much everyone. How would this effect health care? If you get to pick your own doctor how would this effect your treatment? How can our country realistically afford to pay for health care? Are taxes going to go up to pay for this which in the end is that even saving americans money?
Give me some facts about this health care plan
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February 23rd, 2010 at 1:35 pm
What is going to happen is the Government is going to set the rates doctors can charge for services. Doctors cannot afford the rates so they will overbook people to get the most money they can so you will go to the Dr office and wait for several hours and maybe even have to return the next day. Dr groups will get bigger and overbooking will be even more and waiting will be longer. Just think of going to the Dr and there being 100 patients in the waiting room to see a Dr.
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Should see money come the way of average Americans in the form of tax cuts for everyone making less than $250,000. When the Bush tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy expires in 2010, that should provide good revenue. More jobs, more take-home pay, sounds like a recipe for recovery. Brilliant!
Also was reading an article about how two-thirds of Corporations in America paid no taxes at all between 1998-2005. I think if we could start collecting on some of these dead-beats using our country and not paying their fair share, that should be some good revenue as well.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:25 am
Gov’t regulation of health care will force companies to lower their costs, they won’t make as much profit off of you. Insurances companies have always been a heartless evil. Everyone wants quality care….we just need it at an affordable rate. What did Walmart do when it came to town? It put the little guys out of business and made the key players reduce their prices to compete. Not that I think Walmart is the almighty or anything….its just about basic competition and accountability. Basically, we can sell it for less. Do you want to pay more?
February 24th, 2010 at 4:26 am
They don’t have a plan, thats why people are upset, nobody knows, Obama always speaks in generalizations, the 1,000 page bill is only a collection of ideas, no specifics except whatever we get the dems left a loophole for up to 20 million illegals (and family) to get it, the GOP tried to stop it but out voted 29 to 28. Even the Gov budget director says we can’t afford it and it won’t work, add another 20 million people.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:45 am
the ama and hospital groups support obamacare. the public option would compel insurance companies to lower costs.
then why does blue cross say they can’t compete with the public option?
you get less than you pay for from the current health insurance companies.
the cbo says obamacare is not likely to add to the deficit.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:15 am
You’re going to get what you pay for. That is an axiom that will never change, regardless of a government mandate or not (and actually, where the government is involved, you generally get LESS than you pay for).
February 24th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Its hard to predict pros and cons because nothing like the currentlyh proposed idea has ever been implemented in the US. It has in other countries with mixed results. The best way to look at things is to review how things are now and what will change…Most people don’t know exaclty what is out there now….if you asked people they would agree it is bad but most couldn’t offer you an explanation as to why it is bad. I don’t claim to know everything about the matter but I will give you my OPINION of our current system and the new proposal and howw it will affect both.
Old. Our current system mostly allows individuals and businesses to control which insurance plans are offered and the insurance plans decide what is covered and what is not. For most this means that the insurance companies decide what gets done. Prices are enormously high for the uninsured, part because there is little competition for insurance but part because Hospital and Medical Overhead run real high. To protect the poor and underinsured the goverment has been paying for health centers across the nation to give basic care. However the poor and underinsured still lack ability to get specialty care. Another important aspect is that the goverment ddoesn’t dictate that all businesses give their employees medical benifits. One aspect that neither old or new addresses is patient education which i personally wish they would.
Under the current sytem, Doctors get paid decent with specialists getting paid better….insurance companies also get huge benefits and the lower and middle class if there is such a thing have less access to care.
Under the proposed plan…the goverment will offer a plan to “compete” with the other insurance plans. The goverment gets its money from taxes among many other things whereas the insurance companies get their money from premiums. Therefor the goverment plan will be very cheap for almost everyone. Instead of the insurance companies deciding what gets covereed the goverment will. Indirectly this means that the goverment will decide what happens to you (note the insurance companies do that now). The plan also requires small businesses to offer health benifits would can be good for businesses that do well but could be bad for those that struggle. Because of the low cost of the plan most businesses if they are looking to cut costs will scoop up the plan. As attested by medicaid/medicare the goverment plan will have less coverage than most existing insurance plans. These things mentioned are factual although I am a little fuzzy on the small business part. From here on the rest is just a guess on how it will affect patients and doctors and that is the only thing anyone can offer is a guess
The left will say the new plan will bring doen costs and provide the greatest access to care ever seen. Patients who could not get in to see a doctor before will be able to afford it now and the general practitior wont get paid any less. They will use countries that have implemented similar plans and have had success with it as an example.
The right will say tell you the goverment will take over your health care and that insurances wont be able to compete with the low price. If they drop their prices the reimbursement rates to the doctors will go down and the doctors won’t get paid as much. If the doctors (specialists mostly) don’t get paid as much potential doctors will consider alternate careers. The cost of medical education runs 200-500 thousand and around 8 years of post college education. They will not want a pay cut. There is also speculation that the current batch of doctors won’t be able to handle the new numbers of patients who now can afford care. The right will argue that quantity will become more important than quality. They will also sight countries that have similar plans that have failed. The right will also argue that the only way to pay for the program will be higher taxes
who is right…we wont know
My guess is that both right and left are correct and wrong…they both tend to highlight the pros of their ideas and not the cons