Obama is accusing McCain of destroying healthcare with deregulation? Obama's National Health Exchange is a carbon copy of the Massachusetts Plan.
In the case of the Mass Health Connector for instance, it's insurance coverage without access to primary care. And by the way, the Commonwealth of MA refuses to allow retail clinics into the state. The result, newly enrolled folks are waiting a 100 days to see a doctor at Medicaid rates. And the plan is already $1 billion over budget.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/09/22/across_mass_wait_to_see_doctors_grows/
Obama's "plan" to extend coverage to 210,000 people in Illinois was accompanied by regs to force doctors and health plans to accept patients regardless of condition and reimburse at 30 percent lower rates than private plans. Years later people are still waiting to see doctors and the state of Illinois owes physicians nearly $2 billion in Medicaid payments.
Government financed and run healthcare is looking more and more like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac backed mortgages, owners without assets, homes without homeowner as more and more people flood into a zone where they are encourage -- free of normal risk and responsibility and market controls -- to purchase and consume a good at an artificially reduced price in order to hit a hollow target. In the case of Freddie Mac it was home ownership. Government subsidized solutions to increasing health care coverage are largely focused on getting as many people covered as possible, burying the costs and paperwork and worrying about the impact on people and providers later. The result, over the past 15 years and as state efforts to create single payer systems have shown, has been a run up in costs and a decrease in access to care, particularly among minorities, children and the mentally ill.
In the case of the Mass Health Connector for instance, it's insurance coverage without access to primary care. And by the way, the Commonwealth of MA refuses to allow retail clinics into the state. The result, newly enrolled folks are waiting a 100 days to see a doctor at Medicaid rates. And the plan is already $1 billion over budget.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/09/22/across_mass_wait_to_see_doctors_grows/
Obama's "plan" to extend coverage to 210,000 people in Illinois was accompanied by regs to force doctors and health plans to accept patients regardless of condition and reimburse at 30 percent lower rates than private plans. Years later people are still waiting to see doctors and the state of Illinois owes physicians nearly $2 billion in Medicaid payments.
Government financed and run healthcare is looking more and more like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac backed mortgages, owners without assets, homes without homeowner as more and more people flood into a zone where they are encourage -- free of normal risk and responsibility and market controls -- to purchase and consume a good at an artificially reduced price in order to hit a hollow target. In the case of Freddie Mac it was home ownership. Government subsidized solutions to increasing health care coverage are largely focused on getting as many people covered as possible, burying the costs and paperwork and worrying about the impact on people and providers later. The result, over the past 15 years and as state efforts to create single payer systems have shown, has been a run up in costs and a decrease in access to care, particularly among minorities, children and the mentally ill.
