Obama care bureaucracy
"The Health Care Bureaucrats Elimination Act (S. 668), introduced by Senator John Cornyn of Texas, would amend the health care reform law to eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board." He will consider it, so says Sen. Durbin(D-IL)
I read the executive summary of ObamaCare and I can tell you it will take 5,998 amendments to get rid of the bureaucrats it installs. Responsible authorities say there is an overlay of government and insurance regulatory and administrative cost that doubles the expenditures for health care.
30 years of government policies and growing controls on medical care and treatment to contain costs and make it better are abject failures.
A radical change of course to restore to the primacy of patient and doctor relationship in payment and care is the only cure.
As long as we're on course to restore the primacy of patient and doctor relationships, can we find some way to rid the healthcare system of the huge insurance company bureaucracy? Of course, between getting rid of the public and private-sector bureaucracies, we'll have to expand some other government department in order to employ them—kind of like we did when we created the Department of Homeland Security.
Just sayin...
The real question is who governs, in health care.
Shall an unelected bunch of bureaucrats at a health care company decide what is best for you, when it is best for the profits of the health care company? Or, would you rather have this question be decided closer to you, and those like, by some rule of law, some regulation, over which you have some small power, as a voter?
That is the question, for neither you nor your doctor can decide the larger question, of what is an appropriate standard of care.
The question for you is which bureaucracy is more likely to bettter serve your interests -- a public one, nominally responsible to the people under the rule of law -- or a private company, responsible to the law of profits for shareholders.
We've been following the latter model for decades, with health care costs soaring out of sight. Other countries have followed the former model, with evident successes at delivering, overall, a higher quality of healthcare, for much lesser cost, for a greater number of persons.
Of course, Obamacare is still a weaker care system than what those other countries have, but when fully implemented, it will be at least somewhat better than what we had before it was adopted.
Extreme influence on "nominally" there.
To answer your question, I have very little faith in either government bureaucrats or in private industry bureaucrats to provide a solution that works for the public's interest regarding health care.
It's true that government provided health care has worked well in many countries, although most of those countries' governments do not have the level of corruption that our government does, and they certainly have much healthier citizens than we do (what first-world country doesn't?).
Corruption. Well, mankind is, linguistically, a corruption, of perfection. I say this abstractly, never having met any saint, nor any god, of any kind.
It used to be, I add, that men once had a better understanding of gods, less decadent, an inverted notion, perhaps, as Nietzsche would have said.
Greeks and Romans never imagined, so I imagine, that gods had perfection, thinking only that gods were like men, only different in various particular aspects, such as vulnerabilities and strengths, but not in passions nor in motivations, nor in wisdom and reason.
The gods were not corrupt, nor corruptible; was man, in their view, so? Was government?
No. There is no view, no concept of corruption back then.
So, how has corruption come into our thinking, that we think it is, based upon some absolutes we have manufactured as Gods in our reason, against the mere factual logics that actually do govern our ways of life, as to how we live, as against some raving moralist preaching that there is, absolutely, just one right way to live?
Government is not corrupt. Our reason has long been corrupted by the idea of corruption.
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