Price of 'Affordable Health Care?'
October 18, 2013
What does “Affordable Health Care” really mean to WE the SHEEPLE? Are you signed up yet? The fun is just beginning!

We citizens are viewing the socialist farce of Obamacare as it evolves or should I say morphs in all four compass directions to suit this administrations fancies …special waivers for certain big business as well as House and Senate favoritism … the stench of this law is being rewritten hourly. Thanks to Senators Reid and Pelosi.

Now there is mention that this law will create “Accountable Care Organizations” or ACOs. These ACOs will be defined by geographic areas that contain a defined number of faceless patients. The body count is what matters, pulse is optional.

For example, a pilot ACO may blanket a large area like Northern Idaho from Coeur d'Alene to the Canadian border.

You the patient, at first, won’t know that you “belong” to the ACO. However the government has assigned you, if you are a Medicare recipient, to a specific ACO.

The ACOs will then be held responsible for care quality and cost containment, as defined by the government. That in and of itself should scare all lemmings! As Nancy Pelosi said “pass the bill first then read it” … now we can see the ramification of that pathetic piece of legislation choking the middle and lower class citizens of this country while jamming Obamacare down our larynx like bad medicine.

These ACOs will be managed by CFOs (Chief Financial Officers), or should I say select individuals responsible for riding herd on participating doctors and hospitals willing to play the federal bureaucracy game.

Most of these CFOs will have no medical back ground … the bottom-line “costs” are what matters. With this president and his administration, you play by their rules only - no negotiation, or they whine and call you names like spoiled socialist dictators that they are.

The intent of all this, is a three stage shell game to bring about the death of private medical practice in America as we know it.

Before you shut me out, please finish this article first … then step back and watch the degradation of the world’s best healthcare systems absorbed into a nightmarish federal bureaucracies black hole.

STEP ONE: America will be sliced up geographically into ACOs, which will gather all sorts of patient-care data for the feds and will be paid a fee for service at Medicare rates. The ACOs will be praised by the biased media and our President as the saviors of medicine and given bonuses for quality and cost containment. Currently, they are being offered 50% cash rebates for any savings they bring forward.

Patients can choose to go anywhere for care, in or out of the ACO. Private practitioners outside the system will be “allowed” to keep practicing, they will not be forced to join the ACO’s – that would be “un-American," but these small practices will be unable to survive the regulatory burden of Obamacare.

So, these doctors who elect to opt out, will retire early, or close their private clinics or simply go to work for the ACO where they think they will do better financially.

STEP TWO: Once private practitioners are squeezed out of existence, there will be no competition. The ACOs will be the only cabaret in town and totally under the thumb of the federal government. At this point, the bonus money will go away, and the feds will squeeze down payments to doctors and hospitals. These bonuses are simply bribes given to businesses by government in order to make them dependent serfs of the state system.

Small hospitals will have to consolidate under larger ones or go out of business. At this point, to prepare for the final step, rumblings of problems in the ACOs will start … another looming crisis – are you getting used to manipulated crisis management under this administration?

STEP THREE: As government reimbursements diminish and there is no private option, the system will fail to deliver adequate care. Patients won’t be able to get appointments or timely surgery, doctors will complain, hospital staffs will strike and in general the system will implode.

Now government is always ready to leap into breach and will declare a national crisis and push through emergency legislation, that is already in the system, to nationalize health care.

Hospitals will be taken over by the feds, doctors and nurses and all necessary personnel will have no choice in the matter. “Never let a good crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel once stated.

At the stroke of a pen, health insurance will cease to exist, and perhaps the companies who sold insurance will be placed in charge of administrating these ACOs. This path is already being paved as big companies like Blue Cross are given government contracts to administer Medicare.

Think this can’t happen?

Even some of the ACO administrators admit they are being set up to fail. But fail to what end? To the goal which has been the goal all along – establish a National Health Service like Canada, or England, or Sweden.

This is not a medical or societal evolution; this is programmed incremental revolution, and we, like the Russians, the French etc., will pay the price, because when free market medicine goes, so goes our freedom.

The power that brings about this government takeover will not be limited just to medicine. It will consume every facet of the social and economic life of America.

All under the façade that WE the SHEEPLE aren’t smart enough to take care of ourselves!

Grasp the hypocrisy of a government administration that requires every citizen to “prove” they are insured but not everyone must prove they are citizens … And now!

Any of those who refuse, or are unable to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to purchase insurance because they are citizens.