Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows. This sprang to mind when I heard about a federal judge from Florida declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. If I recall correctly President Obama was elected upon his promise to reform health care in this country so everyone had access to it.
Now that he is elected and is in office and has done what he promised some hate him for it The politicos don’t like anything about it even though they voted it in. Now the balance of power of the Congress has changed with the November mid-term elections and the new folks have decided to overthrow every thing they can. They began with Obamacare thinking it was an easy cause since 26 states had already brought suit against the plan.
While I agree that no one should be forced to buy insurance, I also agree that some major reform is necessary. Those who have insurance should not have to pay for those who chose not to buy any either.
In this blogger's opinion, they centered on the wrong issues to draft this plan. Their first move should have been a bill banning the pharmaceutical companies from pricing their drugs in astronomical amounts and also make them allow generics far sooner than they do at present. Lowering these drug prices would help everyone even those without insurance.
Cutting the amount of physician payment for Medicare patients only drives doctors away from being primary-care physicians or even specialists accepting Medicare patients. Medicare is a known slow payer as it is and is chock full of excess paperwork.
You can’t reform the process without a massive paperwork reduction for Medicare and all insurance providers which saves physicians the cost of extra staff to facilitate that paperwork.