IMHO it is very dangerous to have people whose only objective is reducing costs to be the only ones controlling.
Ask yourself why do we have a medical profession? why did it begin and why has so much effort and resources been employed to raise the standards of care? Why because society rightfully understands that alleviating suffering is a noble goal......
Now ask yourself why did we create insurance? the answer is simply to ensure risks that we could not handle. Insurance is the pooling of resources to help people cope with financial events that they otherwise could never afford.
Ask why do we have this controversy and the answer lies in greedy people patients, doctors insurers. doctors in an effort to protect themselves over-prescribe ie over treat. Insurance companies pushed in the early 1980's for more control of their insurance dollars to control what they believed to be higher cost resulting from over treating and plain mismanagement on the part of the medical community.
The Affordability Act is not a health act it is only a method of how health care will be distributed. it does nothing to improve the health care system and by an account of the majority will only make it worse and more costly.
So given this madness we have people who are charged with reducing costs as their only goal. since the higher medical cost are incurred in th last two years of a person lives what d you think is going to happen when the tires hit the road?
As to the experts on health care styles I wished they make up their minds as to what is good for us once and for all, Because their flip flopping only confuses the issue.
for me I am going to continue my life style of moderation and enjoy my across the board menu and the heck with the experts because I thin of those folks who pushed away the dessert cart just before the Titanic went down as one great columnist once said
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