Comments on: But No One Shops for Health Care

By: seks shop

seks shop — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:41:04 +0000

I really admire the way you approach to tackle this matter which became a global issue . I will be observing your future works and submitting my own views and results of my personal researches.

By: Skip Oliva

Skip Oliva — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:36 +0000

Obama doesn’t even know what he’s talking about on the antitrust front. There has been rabid enforcement of the antitrust laws in the healthcare sector–against physicians. The moment any group of doctors rejects an insurance company’s contract offer, the doctors are considered guilty of “price fixing” by the FTC and DOJ. There have been over 30 cases in the past for years of physician groups–some with as few as six members–facing antitrust probes for “depriving” the largest insurance companies in America of the “benefits of competition.”

Translation: The FTC and DOJ want insurers paying doctors rates that are in line with the federal price controls for Medicare and Medicaid. If there’s any hint the doctors want to set prices independent of those price controls, they must be stopped, otherwise physicians might make enough from the insurers to forego Medicare/Medicaid patients altogether.

By: Thibodeaux

Thibodeaux — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:39:21 +0000

It's like you keep pointing out with NOW: lots of people have a blind spot when it comes to "health care," and can't see that they're holding mutually contradictory beliefs in their heads. There's a word for that...

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:23:57 +0000

"By the way, does anyone else note the irony of Obama, who wants to create a single supplier for health care (the US Government) lamenting concentration in the health care field?"

I thought I was the only one who noticed this of any of the communized health care candidates.