Big Mayo piles on Obama
Actually, just the Mayo Clinic.
Although there are some positive provisions in the current House Tri-Committee bill – including insurance for all and payment reform demonstration projects – the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affordable health care for patients. In fact, it will do the opposite.
In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – to help drive necessary improvements in American health care. Unless legislators create payment systems that pay for good patient results at reasonable costs, the promise of transformation in American health care will wither. The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.
This is further evidence that Health Care Reform, such as the Left wants it, is more about feeling fuzzy that poor people have insurance than it is about improving health care in this nation. Additionally, this on the heels of the CBO assertions that Obama’s plan will be much more expensive than Big O says, and crumbling popular support (my previous post) for the bill/reform points down the path to ruin for Obamacare.
If you think the GOP was going to stand athwart the White House before support eroded for this hellish legislation, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
