Many doctors are quitting their practices because they will get very little reimbursement from the gov't. They already don't get enough reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare, but will get less from Obamacare. Treatments will be denied based on age or general state of health. Obese people may be denied care because it's riskier and more expensive. The handicapped may be denied. I think that Euthanasia will become common because the government will have to deny care. There just won't be enough money. And we still don't know everything they've slipped in that law.
Some of what you wrote - especially about the denying of care and Euthanasia instead of care? I don't see happening. People get up in arms over smaller things in comparison to someone's life, and the government cow towns to them now.
The cost of care is something they truly have yet to deal with. This is what is making people nervous. Doctor's have a choice as to how many medicare, medicaid patients they see. The government decides how much they will pay for the claims, and due to the cost of health care? The doctor's office/hospital/clinic can lose a huge chunk of change. So they only take so many patients, and that leaves the rest of the people to search for someone that will take the government assistance. That bottleneck is only going to get bigger once you add more people into the system, and you don't have enough medical places that will take them. They have yet to address this either.
Then you have the insurance for the medical personnel, and that costs a HUGE chunk. The government has decided they will not even address this at all. So you have this cost that could stay the same, or even go up. Yet, they want them to receive less for care of patients.
From what I have read the government seems to be addressing this with the concept of supply and demand. In other words, flood the market with new patients and the costs will go down. The problem with that is the factors that make the costs go up to begin with is NOT being addressed at all. This is another factor that makes people nervous.
The government also wants to encourage people to enter the Medicaid program by expanding the guidelines. That way more people will qualify. The system seems to be overloaded now, and the federal government has only offered to increase the amount of funds to help each state for only a certain amount of years. That leaves the state to figure out how to pay for it after that point. With state budgets hardly keeping up now? I can understand them being nervous about that. Increase in taxes to pay for it is never popular. I believe that is why so many states are opting out of that, and yet are being shamed for it.
It seems to me they are relying on young, healthy people that won't use the system - because they feel they won't need to - to pay for the rest of the people that do. That is a huge gamble, and sure I can see how that will help some...but will it be enough? The young are going to have to get insurance whether they like it or not, and no doubt many of those young people will be paying for areas where there is high unemployment...and can't pay. That could only cancel each other out.
They are now discovering hidden taxes in things now to pay for this program that was never brought up either. For example, if you bring a new medical device to market. They place a $1000 tax on it - and that's before you even pay for the item. Buying and selling Real Estate will now have heavier taxes. Heck they haven't even discovered all the ways they want revenue for this yet. They passed the law, but haven't stopped writing it yet. That leaves everyone in the dark, and you can't plan...since you have no idea what the costs will be.
Businesses with so many employees - even if they do give them insurance - will have to pay more to the feds to help pay for this program as well. Yet, they offer exceptions for certain industries - like McDonald's. Why? They had a hissie. So that leaves everyone else to pick up the tab. The costs are substantial, and I can understand why it scared them...but still. The country can't pay for it now, and yet you are skipping over certain industries from contributing for political reasons? Makes no sense at all.
The big unions at this point - that had been a huge supporter of this - are now finding out how this will actually HARM their members.
At this point we truly don't know how this is going to work for the nation, and what effect it will have on our current healthcare system. Sadly, you can only speculate. People are holding back from expanding, hiring, etc because they really don't know how much its going to cost. I mean you have certain items you have been told, but they aren't done writing all the details yet. lol they can't could change their mind, and change the details they already said would happen! Everyone is still so up in the air? Who knows what will happen.
