Experience and the law of unintended consequences suggest the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" will neither protect patients nor make health services affordable.
Actual caring will resemble that of the U.S. Postal Service.
Servi...ces will be rationed and denied in arbitrary manner after long waiting, as in other countries with government health systems.
Advocacy groups will institute something like a 'disease-of-the-month-club,' to apply political pressure to cover various conditions.
In short, decisions which ought to be made by patients and physicians will instead be made by cold, distant bureaucracies. Switzerland has a market-based system which works.
Care there is as good as in the US at 58% of the per capita cost.
Such a system was not even considered here, because the goal is government control, not accessible, affordable or quality care.
written by a Doctor-Friend of mine,who holds a License to practice Medicine,both in the US and Switzerland,thus is very familiar with both Systems!
He wrote this a couple years ago,and it looks like events bear him out!
Edited by
Conrad_73
on Mon 11/14/16 09:35 AM
