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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16469)4/8/2010 6:00:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
If you want to know the negative consequences of the current law, well there have been thousands of posts on the issue.

But for starters an individual mandate violates the constitutional limit of the federal governments powers. The extra spending, even if it was "paid for" harms our fiscal situation and requires us to pay extra taxes, and the "paid for" idea is extremely dubious the program will most likely increase deficits harming the fiscal situation even more. Also all the extra spending contributes to an out of control entitlement problem. Entitlements are gradually taking control of our economy. If things are not changed (and in the other direction from Obamacare, less spending not more, at least less in terms of less than planned/projected, if not less than what we spend today), than this is unlikely to end well.

Than you have the coverage mandates that drive up costs for insurance companies, since it costs more to cover more conditions and a lot more to cover people with previously existing conditions.

Then one of the main ways to contain costs is to try to recuce compensation for doctors, which will probably be "fixed", in which case you don't get the cost savings, and the spendign problem is worse. If it isn't fixed than you can create or add to a doctor shortage, and/or fewer doctors being willing to accept patients covered by government payment plans.
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