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In reply to the discussion: What is ObamaCare? High-Cost Privatized Medicine That Provides Huge Profits To Insurance Industry [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)That many people don't:
One) The ACA created a fund to "help" the organizations in the HC world become digitized. In other words, Twenty Billions of dollars were just handed over to be distributed out to any hospitals and clinics asking for the monies.
Now on the surface, this seems like a good thing. But in reality, it is a shocker. I know from years spent watching the Marin HC District in Calfiornai - the Sutter Hospital in Marin claimed it needed some 350K of dollars in order to create the software to handle computerizing the records.
Now at first, I thought that was a decent amount of money to pay. You'd need a team of programmers, and assuming they would be paid thirty to sixty bucks an hour, the amount required seemed fair.
But then a friend pointed out that the Sutter Hospital in Marin was part of the Sutter chain of hospitals. And that since other hospitals in that franchise already had the software, why would the Marin county people need to "re-invent the wheel."
The Sutter people were just taking us all for a ride. And that is what is the case with these twenty billions of $$s as well.
Two) Some five hundred billions of dollars must be CUT AWAY from MediCare programs to help reduce the overall deficit impacts of the ACA.
Yee Gawds, where do they think they will find this money? Doctors, we are being told, will no longer be getting exorbitant fees. But the fact is, most doctors who cater to the MediCare crowd are already viewing MediCare as a bad way to be paid. So reducing their fees means they will drop out of the HC system, and either retire, or go into more lucrative fields than gerontology.