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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (684780)11/14/2012 12:23:52 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (4) of 1581924
 
Hi Brumar89; Re Obamacare.

Now that the Republicans seem to be treating Obamacare as "now the law of the land", I went and looked up some information about it.

It appears to me that what it does is to force everyone in the country to have the same medical treatment. The control on the treatment is defined by the government by defining the amounts doctors / hospitals are to be paid for various treatments. The part of the government that controls those payments are 15 people appointed by the President. For now those will be Obama appointees and will carry left wing opinions into the panel. But a seat on the panel is only 6 years (unlike the Supreme Court) and so each new President has the ability to appoint a solid 2/3 majority of the panel.

If the panel puts a very high price on a procedure they will be subsidizing that procedure. It will be profitable for doctors and they will recommend it. If they put a low price on it they will be making it very difficult to find. For example, the difficulty in getting an abortion in the US is not a matter of the law, abortion is legal everywhere due to Roe vs. Wade. The problem is in the difficulty in finding a doctor willing to perform the operation. Only about 13% of US counties have an abortion provider. And it's not possible to force doctors to perform abortions.

I expect to see the Republicans use the control over Obamacare as a method of making political progress. Since the US is more socially conservative than liberal, the party leaders will see this as the perfect wedge issue to split the Democratic party. Ronald Reagan was governor of California. In the 1984 presidential election, my recollection is that he picked up 37% of the Hispanic vote almost twice the percentage Romney picked up.

-- Carl
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