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Health experts: 'ObamaCare must be repealed'

Becky Yeh -
California correspondent
(OneNewsNow.com)
Thursday, November 01, 2012



A number of surgeons and physicians feel the most important issue on November 6 is whether or not ObamaCare will be repealed.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons says its political action committee has raised $63,000 to oppose ObamaCare. Dr. Jane Orient of Arizon tells OneNewsNow the AAPS-PAC reports that contributions donated this year have doubled and will fund candidates who oppose the federal healthcare overhaul.

"For many reasons, we think that ObamaCare must be repealed," she states. "There are many problems with medicine; I think almost all of them are related to third-party payments. These need to be addressed, but ObamaCare moves us entirely in the wrong direction."

The AAPS-PAC is supporting 19 legislative candidates and hopes to see a majority win in a tight race for the U.S. Senate.

"We think the single most important issue is whether or not the candidate will vote to repeal ObamaCare or whether he can vote to repeal ObamaCare," says Dr. Orient. "If the Senate remains in Democrat hands, he probably will have no opportunity whatsoever, as Harry Reid will keep the issue from coming to the floor."

The PAC notes that donations in 2010 amounted to $30,000 -- less than half of this year's total of more than $62,000.

Well has any one of these people come up with a good health care plan to provide health care for people with pre-existing conditions and health care for people who can't afford it?

I don't know anything about Obama's health care ideas but I haven't heard any solutions.

I was walking with my girlfriend and her niece and her dogs along the shore of Lake Erie last evening.

Her niece is a single mom who was abandoned by her boyfriend 6 months pregnant. She is a cute girl with a quick wit.

We could see the lights from Canada across the lake.

She said " Its like a beacon of hope I hear t hey have healthcare over there.

If you would have kept walking a little farther you could have showed her the waiting line to be seen.

A Compelling Alternative to Obamacare


By Ed Whelan

June 11, 2012 11:25 A.M.





While the Supreme Court is reviewing the constitutionality of Obamacare, it’s an opportune moment to remember that Obamacare is not the only way to reform health care.

If Obamacare is thrown out, in whole or in part, by the Court, the country will be far better off because the field will be cleared for a reform plan that will actually fix the problems in American health care instead of exacerbate them. (To be clear: I’m not arguing for such a Supreme Court ruling on this basis; I’m simply noting the tremendously favorable consequences that such a ruling would have.)

My EPPC colleague James Capretta has provided the blueprint for such a plan in an essay in a National Affairs magazine (edited by another EPPC colleague, Yuval Levin). He and his co-author, Bob Moffit of the Heritage Foundation, describe policy changes that would establish insurance protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, slow the pace of rising costs, and cover the uninsured—all without coercive mandates or unaffordable federal spending commitments. The key is to change federal policy so that the marketplace in health care can work as it should.

Yuval outlines essentially the same plan in his excellent Weekly Standard essay on what the Romney campaign should be saying on health care and other matters of importance to voters.

Thus, the choice for the country is not Obamacare or nothing. (The pre-Obamacare status quo has too many problems for it to provide a stable equilibrium.) The choice is between the government-centric approach of Obamacare, which will bankrupt the government and erode the quality of American medicine, or a reform plan that delivers improved insurance security and higher quality health care, too, through a decentralized marketplace in which consumers call the shots.

Obamacare has to go, one way or another. Sound health-care reform can’t be implemented so long as Obamacare remains in place.

Bunch of rich doctors and all they could come up with was sixty-three
grand????

Doesn't sound like much of a commitment.

I did a little research, and the AAPS is a very small group of extremely conservative doctors. It apparently was originally organized as against Medicare. They have a number of philosophies (such as opposing mandatory vaccinations) that are counter to prevailing medical opinion. Their opinions could not be assumed to be representative of the general medical community, and calling them "health experts" is kind of a stretch. From what I see, they put public health second to their political beliefs.

"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. Services 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."

It will result in long waits to see a doctor, large increases in costs, demoralized doctors and nurses, angry patients, and rationing. The government will dictate which services will be paid for and which will not (death panels). Old sick p...eople will become disposable. It is unclear whether those who might wish to pay for non-covered services with their own money, will be allowed to to so. Can you imagine that??? At least in other countries with socialized systems, one can go outside the system and pay for non-covered services. It is likely that we in the 'land of the free' will not be permitted to do so.

http://mises.org/daily/3737/Why-ObamaCare-Will-Fail-A-Reading-List

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/04/29/why-switzerland-has-the-worlds-best-health-care-system/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

still,my Premium has more than doubled in six years!