Post by JoePost by TerryRead the comic here
http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2014/10/01
Right on
Terry
I do believe it is that bad. Insurance companies screwing everybody on one end,
doctors screwing patients on the other. Monkey in the middle and I'm feeling
like Bonzo.
AFAICT, it's .Gov screwing both doctors and insurance companies with Obamacare's rules and
regulations on top of all the preceding fed and state regs, and they have no choice but to pass it
along to us monkeys in the middle. I'm not claiming doctors and insurance companies are spotless,
but they aren't any worse now than they ever have been, while .gov almost inevitably makes things
worse, and has been doing so in the medical field for at least 7 or 8 decades, especially with their
"caps" on reimbursement. Not to mention, Obamacare's insistence on all medical insurance policies
falling in four specific bands of price and coverage, very specifically defined, with gaps between
the bands.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1957
“We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a
shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than
two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.”
--Milton Friedman, "Controls blamed for U.S. energy woes", Los Angeles Times, February 13, 1977,
Milton Friedman press conference in Los Angeles.
[Tomatoes, oil, gas, doctors, prescriptions, insurance, and the list goes on.]
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]