RATIONING NEWS: EFFORT TO LIMIT WHAT WE SPEND TO SAVE OUR FAMILIES’ LIVES MIGHT BE SUCCEEDING | NRL News Today: Under the Obama Health Care Law (ObamaCare), the federal government is empowered to impose so-called “quality” standards on all health care providers, standards based on recommendations on how to prevent Americans’ private health care spending from being allowed to keep up with the rate of medical inflation. Those recommendations are to be issued in 2015 and every two years thereafter by the 18-member “Independent Payment Advisory Board.” [See www.nrlc.org/HealthCareRationing/ObamaHCRationingBasicDOCUMENTATION.pdf.]
What happens to doctors who violate a “quality” standard by prescribing more lifesaving medical treatment than the IPAB permits? They will be disqualified from contracting with any of the health insurance plans that individual Americans, under the Obama Health Care Law, will be mandated to purchase. Few doctors would be able to remain in practice if subjected to that penalty.
Editor: While I'm opposed to rationing in principle, I'm curious about that line, "limit what we spend." Who's we? If the government or an insurance company is footing they bill, guess what! They get to decide. I doubt if you or I were footing the bill that anyone would say no. Why do we expect someone else to care as much for our lives as we do?
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