Patients, Physicians, or unelected Bureaucrats….Who can make
the best decision on patient Health Issues? Me…I’m going with My physician and
my life experience when making my care decisions!
There are two competing visions for
health care in America. One centralizes control in Washington DC, while the
other empowers families and individuals – i.e. the patients. When people are in
control of their own health care decisions, they are able to choose the best
care options in a market where competition can breed excellence and lower
costs. Unfortunately, decades of centralized control has devastated
patient-centered, low-cost health care, the destruction of which has been
hastened with the passage of “Obamacare.” This lack of personal control leads
to ever-increasing requirements to seek permission from either government or
insurance bureaucrats about what kind of doctor you can see, how often you can
see the doctor, what kind of procedures you are allowed to access, what kind of
insurance policy you can purchase, what that policy will cost and what it will
cover; virtually all health care decisions will be made by unelected,
unaccountable bureaucrats.
Key Points
- The American health care system was already broken
before “Obamacare” came on the scene because individuals and families had
minimal control over their health care decisions.
- “Obamacare” makes the existing problems much worse
because the “cure” it offers – more government control – is the cause of
the disease.
- The key features of “Obamacare” are the individual
mandate, a budget-busting expansion of Medicaid, a huge expansion of the
federal government, misuse of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, the
largest tax increase in American history that will affect all Americans,
and job-killing costs and regulations.
- Americans were promised they could keep their current
health plan if they wanted to, and yet thousands of people have already
been forced to change.
- Decisions about health care, your child’s health care,
and your elderly parent’s health care will now be in the hands of
something called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). It’s a
board of fifteen bureaucrats, appointed by the President and unaccountable
to you, who will have ultimate authority about all of our health care
choices.
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