Obamacare: Federally Engineered "Market Failure"
There is a certain amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth at my start-up company these days over health benefits. Blue Cross, our insurer, is tangled up in some sort of contract kerfuffle with the local university hospital and clinic system. The upshot: suddenly a visit to the long-standing family doc will cost many employees hundreds rather than the usual fifteen-buck copay. Blue Cross is also in the midst of a similar falling out with our area's largest chain pharmacy. For now it's full price or no deal on antibiotics and other prescription medications.
Naturally, all and sundry at the office--mainly Hope and Change voters in the last election--are livid with Blue Cross.
But could there be another factor? Let's start with President Obama's solemn vow:
Next, let's see what former Democratic National Committee chairman and hollerin' presidential candidate Howard Dean had to say yesterday about the market-destroying goodness at the core of the president's signature health care "achievement."
Single payer here we come. Don't worry, you'll love it. You'll have to.
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Jun '10
Re: Obamacare: Federally Engineered "Market Failure"
"I don't want to hurt the auto insurance industry. I just want to be able to buy my auto insurance while wedged between two trees at the bottom of a highway ditch, with two pounds of windshield glass in my lap."
Nov '10
Re: Obamacare: Federally Engineered "Market Failure"
Howard Dean is politically well-connected.
He will never have to wait for hours in a waiting room to be seen by a physician. He won't ever be told he's too old for an operation or a prosthetic. He won't ever fail to get medical attention because he couldn't navigate the byzantine bureaucracy. He won't ever be forced to endure government-mandated 'end-of-life counseling'.
Neither will his family, or his friends. A quick call to the local congressman will cut right through all that red tape.
Sep '10
Re: Obamacare: Federally Engineered "Market Failure"
Your insurance problem in all likelihood has nothing to do with Obama and everything to do with 3rd party payee systems. A similar thing happened 3 years ago here, and has probably been happening all over the US. The only cost restraint place on the medical system is when insures negotiate with health care providers. If they fail to take a hardline prices escalate quicker. If they take a hard line their customers are inconvenienced. If you are looking for a politician to blame you might consider FDR whose wage controls during WW2 started this mess.