ObamaCare Affects Many More Than Advertised

I have three cardiologists (one primary, the others electrophysiologists), a pulmonologist, an orthopedist and a family practitioner/dermatologist. They are all top-notch physicians who love their work and love their patients. Four of them tell me they are going to be adversely affected by ObamaCare and may have to change the superior way they do medicine.

My primary cardiologist is going to have to cut back his staff to meet the new demands placed on him by ObamaCare. Can you say, “Increased unemployment?” The electrophysiologists are going to be compensated less per case under this despicable plan. Their decisions about who can get what care is going to change for the worse, not the better.

Sure. These are anecdotal to the “experts” and to the masses, but they are directly affecting the way they are able to treat me, and thus are important to me.

For many years, The United States has been the destination of people from all over the world because of our high standard of health care.

Now I am the first to admit that the insurance industry had (has) major problems. Most of those problems, though, were brought on by federal regulations that made it increasingly difficult for them to provide the proper type of insurance coverage. Many of them are going to be forced out of business by ObamaCare. Can you say, “Unemployment” again?

One of the things that should have been done (and what can still be done if anybody has the political fortitude to get it done) is to have eliminated certain regulations that prevented insurance companies from directly competing with each other.

If an insurance company wants to expand to serve people in another state, it has to actually form a completely new business in that state, one that disconnects it from its parent company. In other words, it is prohibited from effectively crossing state lines to compete with companies already in that state.  A few large companies managed to accomplish this kind of service, but many have not. The result has been less competition and higher prices for policies.

That is the result of government regulation that has nothing to do with health care or insurance but is a result of government’s insatiable desire to control everything and to prohibit the free exercise of business.

Now I am not talking about health standards, I am talking about commerce standards.

Liberty demands that companies be able to offer what they want to offer, to whom they want to offer it when and how they want to offer it. If I don’t want what company “A” offers, I’ll go to company “B”, who offers what I want at the price I want.

By the way, it would be billions of dollars cheaper, and far less destructive, for the government to just provide demonstrably necessary coverage on preexisting conditions only for those whose insurance doesn't cover them than it would be for them to usurp the entire commercial activity of existing companies. As it is, we are going to proudly provide coverage for 30 million people while causing nearly 50 million people to lose the coverage they want. To a liberal, that makes good sense, but only to a liberal.

If my house catches fire, I’m going out immediately to purchase a fire insurance policy to cover the costs. If I have an accident I’m going to contact GEICO and save up to 15% on my car insurance and let them cover the costs of the accident. If I die, my wife is going to contact Met Life and let Snoopy give her a settlement (4 million dollars sounds about right).  I’m sure my home insurance company, GEICO and Met Life will appreciate the opportunity to cover what has already happened.

There are dozens of other regulations and restrictions that could have been lifted or altered to allow health insurance companies to offer better coverage at lower rates, but the government has a vested interest in keeping that from happening.

Instead we get ObamaCare, that will cost trillions of dollars and will work to provide good health care coverage about as well as their web site works.

Of course, Obama is sorry for the inconvenience 50 million people are going to experience, losing their health care. Not to worry, though. He will force them to sign up for ObamaCare, as soon as he can figure out how to make the sign up process work. He’s sorry alright.