thereisnospoon
Gold Member
The cost to treat a broken arm is exactly the same regardless of who pays for it. If the patient pays only $8 and it costs $8,000, somebody else is paying $7,992. You cannot eliminate the cost of anything simply by shuffling around who the payee is going to be.
Oh no!!! With Obama care, the government will pay for the care.
Didn't you know that?
Throughout Obama;s sales pitch for ACA, he made the case for controlling "cost"...Not true. ACA controls the "price" not the cost.
ACA is nothing but a government mandated price control for medical care. And that applies only to certain individuals. For the rest of us, the price of care rises. And rises dramatically. We all end up with the same care. Rationed care. While half of the population will pay nothing, the rest of us foot the entire bill..
Now, the price may be one thing. But the cost of medical care, research and development of new technologies, medicines and procedures continues to rise. There is nothing that can be done to prevent that. ACA will also attempt top control the flow of money into medicine. Essentially the entire medical industry will fall under control of the federal government. And when that happens, we will end up with Western European style socialized medicine. Which is GARBAGE.