Was there ever any doubt to how this process would unfold?
Striving to hold down costs to taxpayers, a state panel yesterday approved a range of changes for next year for the rapidly growing subsidized health insurance program. The changes will probably cut payments to doctors and hospitals, reduce choices for patients, and possibly increase how much patients have to pay.
hat tip: Democracy Project via Socialized Medicine…
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I’m so surprised – NOT!!
as FREE=MORE, you either have to raise taxes or decrease reimbursement of services, and we all know what happens when doctors get less money for their service.
1) they either drop out
2) they increase volume to make up for the loss of income.
Good luck Mass. Medicare has already shown what happens when you try to control costs on the top end by reducing reimbursement.
Kevin,
Didn’t you back Romneycare? Wasn’t that your preferred solution?
I back these healthcare experiments in any state but my own.
Back when Hillary first proposed major changes to health care, two states instituted her ideas. They were California and Tennessee. Both were absolute and utter failures, in Tennessee, Tenncare as it was called, bankrupted the state and the state is still trying to figure a way out of the mess. California did not fare much better.
Just as with Romney care, the physicians, hospitals and other providers of care could not afford to stay in business and left the programs in droves.
“”There’s no justification to be paying more than Medicaid rates,” said Patrick Holland, the authority’s chief financial officer.”
Obviously not a doctor. Watch more docs stop participating. What a ding-bat.
Cut reimbursements and less choice…sounds like Medicare all over again. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it!”
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