The most troubling provision in ObamaCare's Section 1311 gives the secretary of health and human services blanket authority to control how doctors and hospitals treat patients. All in the name of improving "quality." That could mean everything in medicine, such as when your OB/GYN should do a Caesarean.Yet, Obama and Nancy Pelosi say this is better insurance for everyone!
What that means for you is that if you enroll in an exchange plan, with or without getting a subsidy, your care will be standardized by the federal government with an eye to reducing what you consume and how much it costs.
Your doctor may have to choose between doing what's right for you and avoiding a penalty. Exchange plans can pay only those doctors who obey whatever regulations the Secretary imposes.
Yet the President claims that people losing their health plans and having to sign up on the exchanges will be getting a better deal. Losing your doctor, shopping blind for a health plan, settling for Medicaid-level care and government controls, all for a premium 41% higher than before and with a deductible that's doubled?
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Think ObamaCare Is Bad Now? It Gets Worse Next Year
IBD reports: