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MasterNJ20 -> RE: A Healthcare Rights Amendment (9/26/2010 9:13:56 PM)
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http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
I'd like to direct people to page 222 starting line 7. Now what I'm taking this to read is that you can either (as a doctor) A) accept the amount of cash the government will fork over. B) Not be called preferred and charge a percent over the "baseline" A will be be paid, however with a smaller baseline because you're not preferred. Or C, not participate and get paid what A is getting paid anyway..without being listed, however.
If a lawyer or someone with better understanding could clarify the language that would be great, this is an observation that seems slightly important but I won't pretend I know more then I do.
The amount the government will be paying A, I have heard, is similar to medicare. Now I know for a fact there are quite a few doctors that will turn down medicare based on the fact that they lose money on those patients.
One of the reasons we have higher health care rates in America then the rest of the world is because we are privatized, yes. But because of this we have some of the best doctors in the world. Doctors from those other countries come HERE to the USA to get money. Many of the longer lifespans of non Americans is not health-care, its lifestyle choices. We have the better doctors because they get paid more here, lets not forget this.
Lets also not forget the US's sheer size with respect to other nations. We have 50 states and a massive population compared to European nations. We can't handle our healthcare the same way. We can't make a unified system at a federal system, it cannot, will not work. We should be aiming for a British style system, if anything. Where there is universal healthcare well beyond what is being proposed, but there is also private healthcare available. I'd be willing to bet half of all Americans would use private health insurance under that system because the whole industry would be under the gun to be more efficient then the government and be cheaper and at the same time not being twisted and perverted via patched together nonsense legislation that no one wants because its been compromised on and twisted so many times. Either its too little or too much change. Its too expensive, but doesn't cover enough things.
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