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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (36374)	5/2/2014 3:02:33 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> The biggest disruption, assuming the article is correct, is transferring the bill to the end user. That should put huge pressure on the system to get more efficient. You recognize that part, right? But it doesn't do as you're suggesting. It doesn't tie cost (to the consumer) to utilization of health care. If females decide to use contraceptives or decide to have a baby, that cost is no incremental burden to her, either way. Her cost is identical under either scenario. Under Medicare Part D, the most fiscally successful federal health care program in existence, costs were controlled because of the donut hole, which was responsible for the proliferation of generic drugs. ACA did what to that? Eliminated it. Dumbest provision in the bill, I think. We have now moved further into the realm of health care as a political weapon, and I don't see how anyone thinks that is a good thing.