There is no polite way to say this so I just will say it: You are a naive fool.

Unfortunately, our country is heading for the cliff because it is full of naive fools like yourself who practice magical thinking and completely lack common sense.

Reality: Doctors OWN Congress. Congressmen bend over backwards to give doctors whatever they want. Nothing will ever pass Congress that takes a serious bite out of doctors — ever. When the cuts have to come, other people will take the pain.

One needs simply connect the dots to expose your obtuse logic. Here’s a crash course: The gov’t expands insurance coverage through massive subsidies and price controls (community rating and guaranteed issue); “greedy” doctors eagerly rub their hands together as they await the flood of new revenue; increased demand on the system raises the cost of medical care and insurance; healthcare costs continue to rise at an even worse rate; the gov’t again steps in proclaiming, “We tried it the free market way, now we’re nationalizing the whole industry;” every last minutia of medical practice becomes purview of our benevolent politicians.

If you are too blind to see how Obamacare was specifically designed to buy off doctors in the short term just to turn the screws on them in the long term, then I only hope your myopia is not the national epidemic I fear it might be.

Your comments are so silly that they don’t warrant reply, but I’m bored.

Simple math seems to be beyond your grasp. The government is bankrupt and to try to buy all these extra votes under those circumstances by screwing doctors and rationing care. Of course it didn’t SAY it was going to do these things…they wouldn’t have been able to cram the bill down America’s throat if they had. However, simple math is all you need, and you are naive to the extent that the future is going to be a cold, hard slap in the face.

P.S. The AMA is the closest thing to a lobby for physicians there is, and it only represents a small minority of physicians. Furthermore, it was bought off by the government and it’s ranks of doctors decreased during the Obamacare debacle because it wasn’t representing their interests.

Sincerely,

Reality

Insurers have a right to complain because their business model is being completely turned on its head. But doctors and hospitals are getting hundreds of billions more dollars from new customers and giving up basically nothing. The lobbying groups can see the forest for the trees, but you guys are so wrapped up in “bleh bleh I hate Obama” that you can’t.

A far better way to increase quality would be to restore the profit motive. In most other industries, those providers who perform low-quality work must charge less for their services, while the very best can charge premium fees. Because we must maintain the illusion that everyone has a “right” to only the best in other peoples’ time and toil, we have deprived physicians of an important signal they could use to increase the quality of their services. Also, people are dying.