What we have to look forard to if obamacare passes

[Jccarlton]

From Dafydd Ab Hugh:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/20 ... alth-care/

It only works if you have connections and bribe the doctors. I contrast this with my mom's experience with her heart arythmia this week. She went to the doctors' office, not the Hospital. the doctor came into the office to see her. no real problems, but if their had been we live in driving distance to at least three world class heart hospitals and the local hospital is probably better than 90% in the world. This is what we are gong to lose if Obamacare passes.

[MSimon]

It is already happening:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... oYSI84VdL0

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” Mayo’s move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview yesterday.

“Many physicians have said, ‘I simply cannot afford to keep taking care of Medicare patients,’” said Heim, a family doctor who practices in Laurinburg, North Carolina. “If you truly know your business costs and you are losing money, it doesn’t make sense to do more of it.”

[Jccarlton]

One big problem is that Progressives never seem to understand that people are not going to just sit there like logs when the Progressives change things. They are going to act, more often then not in ways that the Progressives don't like. The reason people drive small trucks these days is that nobody builds station wagons. Thus the SUV, a creation of Progressive meddling. Raise taxes and people will find ways to not pay them. Create shortages and people will find workarounds. Yet with Progressives every idea seems to start with "They should force."