With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care.

carpro · Aug 8, 2012

I'ts a real chiller and worse than I thought it would be. If you have a strong stomach, take a look at where we are headed.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...7563000563259044.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

RomneyCare 2.0
With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care.

ObamaCare's illusions are starting to fall like autumn leaves, even among some liberals, and what they're discovering are things that have happened over and over again in Massachusetts. Beacon Hill "reformed" health care four years before Capitol Hill, and ever since it has reliably predicted the national trend—on surging costs, price controls, physician shortages and so much else.

So Boston's latest adventure deserves particular scrutiny, since odds are its methods are coming soon to a hospital near you. After more than a year and a half of debate, last week the legislature passed a far-reaching "cost containment" bill that Democratic Governor Deval Patrick is about to sign. It is the inevitable postscript to the model that Mitt Romney introduced in 2006.
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carpro · Aug 8, 2012

As the commission polices the market, it can decide to supervise the behavior of any provider that exceeds some to-be-specified individual benchmark—that is, doctors and hospitals that are spending too much on patient care. These delinquents must submit a "performance improvement plan" that the commission must endorse.

In other words, the commission is empowered to control the practice and organization of medicine. The Massachusetts left complains that this government control is too weak because the delinquents can only be fined $500,000 for disobeying the commission's dictates.
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Government bureaucrats will decide who sees you and how they treat you.

Doctors will have to become cost accountants instead of physicians...and treat you accordingly.

mont974x4 · Aug 8, 2012

Those of us using VA and other government run healthcare have already experienced this. Some know it, and others don't.

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