Saturday, August 16, 2014

California's ObamaCare Dreams To Become A Nightmare For Patients

by JASmius

Remember ObamaCare?  Remember how Barack Obama once told a Big Labor rally that he couldn't get them single-payer in one step?



And remember how I pointed out not all that long ago that no other significant legislation - or unconstitutional Executive Decree - is necessary to take that last step because it already exists in the form of Medicaid?

Recall now that old saying about the Acupulco-Golden State: "As California goes, so goes America":

Vermont's state government has admitted that single-payer medical plan is a goal in the state. California hasn't officially made that a goal, but with one-third of the state's population on Medicaid, they might be closer than Vermont is in reaching the goal.

But, California doesn't seem willing to pay for the care. Physicians treating Medi-Cal patients are paid $18 to $24 per visit. This is less than one-fifth the average amount physicians bill for a 15-minute office appointment. Low payment rates make it difficult for physicians to accept Medi-Cal patients, and that means many of those covered still lack access to primary care physicians. [emphases added]

Gotta love how Michael Carr refers to California's "high enrollment rate (i.e. sign-up, which isn't "enrollment")" as an "ObamaCare success story," as though the public has to be talked into accepting "free stuff".  But as not even Godbama can overcome the TANSTAAFL principle - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - somebody has got to pay for all this "free" health care, and doctors aren't willing to be left holding the bag.  Which is why they'll eventually have to be drafted by the Regime and forced to provide their services at de facto slave wages.  But in the mean time, it will bankrupt the "Several States," and California, given its partisan depravities, will lead the stampede over that fiscal cliff, and will, sooner or later, come hat in hand to Washington to beg for its "bailout" - aka "nationalization".  Which, in turn, was always one of the primary goals of ObamaCare: to bilk the States into voluntarily committing civic suicide and effectively dissolving themselves as sovereign political entities into effective provinces, subordinate to the national government.  That, in turn is why only fourteen States took the bait.

And in the even nearer term, we know who'll be left holding the bag: the recipients of all that "free" health care, which they will pay for with their....

Well, ask a veteran about the VA scandal.  Cemeteries aren't that difficult to find.

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