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To: steve harris who wrote (662926)	7/20/2012 1:57:43 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583656

>Under Obamacare, what happens to medical procedures deemed "non-essential" under the new Central Planning Commissar? If Central Planning decides eye glasses are cheaper than Lasik, you're SOL? Or if a child's teeth are crooked, what's the big deal right? I mean, a lot of people are running around with no teeth. These things are still almost entirely left up to the discretion of the medical insurance companies themselves, as they've always been. The ACA seems to err much more on the side of making things "essential" rather than "non-essential." And when you do actually find a case that something that should be essential is labeled non-essential by your "Commissar" (don't you think it's time to give up on the Soviet Union, which for all intents and purposes has been dead since the early '70s? It's really dumb.), feel free to scream bloody murder. I'll probably scream right along with you. But there's not a single indication, other than rantings from the minds of wingnuts, that the ACA is geared towards granting more care rather than less. The only thing that worries me is what if it ends up in the hands of a Republican administration? But then again, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are vulnerable to that, too. -Z