According to many members of Congress, we need a public option to compete with private insurers. Compete is an interesting word especially when it comes to a government run option that pays what it wants to pay. However, being able to do that saves money, at least for the government. The quest for affordable health care seems to stop at the Beltway with all the excesses tossed to the rest of the country. Consider the impact of Medicare rates on the public option proposals.
Then again consider the impact of Medicare reimbursements on the health care providers and of course indirectly on all of us. Hey, I’m no fan of what physician’s charge and we all know health care does cost too much but we don’t need to make it worse by endless cost shifting. What we need to do is address the fundamental causes, not the fees.
Finally, there is the impact of the government strategy for payment of health care that affects the individual. Today, that is the folks on Medicare, tomorrow if we follow the strategy being heavily promoted by most of the House and many Senators, who knows.
The law of unintended consequences is alive and well!
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