Obama Care or (AHA) Is A Failed Law

What will happen is since there is no more 'pre-existing conditions' allowed people will get diagnosed, buy insurance, get treated (costing insurance companies massive amounts of money) then drop the insurance once they do not need it anymore. Insurance prices will naturally go up, because after all, the insurance companies cannot stay in business and support their families if they cannot make a profit. And if they are prevented from making a profit they will go out business and we will have the president's wish come true...a single payer plan. How wonderful for Mr. Obama. In the meantime, people will pay MORE for insurance, not be able to keep the doctor of their choice and have to wait longer for care because now we have the government setting the price allowed to be charged for services, doctors won't go without a sufficient income to pay off student loans and feed, house and educate and insure their families, so they will leave the profession. http://www.aapsonline.org/index.php/site/article/physicians_declaration_of_independence/ [i]To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. •The Tyranny began during the Second World War, when the Government gave tax subsidies to Employers who offered Health Insurance Benefits, thus penalizing and disenfranchising individuals. •The Government created and subsidized the Health Maintenance Organization---Entities designed to ration Health Care by Capitation; These incentives set Patient against Physician, thus destroying this Sacred Trust. •The Government, in 1965, in its Infinite Wisdom and going far beyond its Powers as set out in the Constitution, decreed that the Poor and The Elderly should receive Health Care Benefits funded by the Taxpayer. Thus came into existence Medicaid and Medicare, massive Entitlements that are bankrupting the Federal and many State Governments. •Alarmed by the rising Health Care Cost that it had engendered, the Government set out to restrain fees to Physicians. These Price Controls increased Health Care Spending, as Volume of Services went up, and Quality went down. No other Profession in the United States is denied the ability to raise fees to cover increasing costs of doing Business. •The Government enacted HIPAA, forcing the spending of billions to comply, and with no positive impact on Patient Care. •The Government passed Sustainable Growth Rate formula which lowers Medicare Physician Payment when total spending and volume increase, virtually assuring a downward spiral in Payments. •The Government and HMOs now limit fees to Physicians by "Payment for Performance," based on "Practice Guidelines." Beyond insulting our Ethic, this destroys our Professional Autonomy. •Congress and the President have conspired to completely take over all aspects of the Health Care System, with all patient encounters feeding into a National Database.[/i]

Deb, under GWB did insurance prices go down? In Texas where they have put all of the right wing republicans solution to health insurance in place has health care gone down? I talked to my HR guy on Monday, and he said that we are getting quotes on our insurance lower than what we are paying now. That is the first time he has seen that in 10 years!!!! Private insurance companies will have to compete with state run exchanges. That means they will have to compete better, or they will be out of business. Has UPS and FEX-EX been put out of business by the USPS? Corporations can compete with the government.

debater you forgot the biggest reason of all which is the present president; who has add more debt than all the other president in history combined with his spend spend spend behavior. No budget for four years straight now. That is a great way to run a nation! He and his democrat buddies should be put in jail for robbing us.

Australia also has tighter government control over health insurance companies. It is a little different set-up. Your Government basically negotiates the prices. It is a power that the US Federal Government does not have not even with Obamacare. You see, we also have State Governments that have an "interest" in Health Insurance. The State Governments actually have more power than the Federal Government. Not many people grasp this concept which is why what works in Australia, Canada, GB, Japan, etc. doesn't necessarily work in America.