December, 2013 The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care, Part 9: Why and How Obama Care Is Failing And Will Fail

This will be the ninth and final update on the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care for this month. This does not mean we have covered all of he screw ups, anguish, hardships, and corruption that have been caused by this legislation. 

In fact, we are sitting on over two hundred news reports, analyses, and research findings that prove this is the single worst piece of legislation ever passed by Washington. We could probably use these sources to write another fifty or more blog posts on Obama Care, it is that bad. But there is other insanity and trampling to our freedoms being done everyday by the American political class that need to be addressed and that is what we will do starting tomorrow.

This does not mean we will not come back to the Obama Care fiasco. It seems to get worse everyday, new surprises, new costs, new corruption, etc. We will circle back around to what the legislation is doing sometime in the middle of next month.

In the meantime, I have listed the titles of about one hundred information sources that examined the ramifications of Obama Care below. These information sources arose just in the past thirty days or so, I have another hundred or so sources that are older. If you cut and paste these titles into your search engine, the original article should pop up for your review prior to our next set of posts on Obama Care next month.

Until then, let’s summarize some of the general problems and disasters of Obama Care that we have documented and reported on over the past four months:

• Millions of Americans are losing access to their current and preferred health insurance policies as a result of Obama Care.
• Millions of Americans are losing access to their preferred doctors.
• Millions of Americans are losing access to some of the top hospitals in the nation.
• Millions of Americans have either lost their jobs because of Obama Care, have lost work hours as a result of Obama Care, or never got the opportunity at new job opportunities as businesses restricted their expansion and hiring plans as a result of Obama Care.
• Washington politicians illegally made exemptions and exceptions for themselves and their staffs relative to Obama Care requirements.
• The President illegally and unilaterally changed components of the legislation without popular or Congressional approval.
• Many Americans are likely losing access to the necessary medicines they need, medicines that were covered in their previous policies but not in all replacement policies.
• The Obama Care systems and operations have accurately been described as an identity thief’s paradise.
• The legislation forces entities and individuals to disobey their religious tenets and principles, a violation of First Amednment rights.
• The adminsitration has gone after those that dared to speak out against the legislation, resulting in IRS audits, loss of work hours, loss of jobs, etc., a violation of First Amednment rights
• The legislation will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt over the coming years.
• The legislation will likely not meet its objective of getting insurance coverage to every American, likely leaving tens of millions of Americans without health care insurance over time.
• The legislation is causing a severe doctor shortage that may result in many, many Americans having health care insurance but there not being enough doctors for them to actually take advantage of that insurance.

But even if these problems did not exist and the Obama Care rollout out happned as some imagined, it still would not have resolved the basic problem of ever escalating health care costs in this country since it never identified and addressed the real root causes of those problems. If you do not know what the causes of a problem are, you have very little chance of resolving that problem.

Rather than resolving the underlying causes, Obama Care provides nothing more than a complicated, Rube Goldberg-like insurance bureaucracy that merely shifts health care costs and expenses around with resolving the causes which include the following:

• Americans are vastly overweight leading to allsorts of self inflicted diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, etc.
• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, food that comes from a food processing system that overuses high fructose corn syrup, a result of Federal government over subsidizing of corn production, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much, in part caused by the Federal government subsidizing of the tobacco industry.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• Laws inhibit the cross state line competition in health insurance sales, restricting competition and increasing health insurance prices.
• The legislation did little to reform the health industry tort laws, reforms that have proven highly successful at the state level in reducing health industry costs.
• The legislation never focused on curing the growing problem of “aging” diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and other afflictions of an aging population, a trend that will financially crush any health care reform unless addressed and tamed.
• The writers and creators of the legislation never “followed the money” to build an economic model of where every health care dollar spent in this country flows; without understanding the underlying business model, you cannot eliminate the waste and fraud within that model.
• The legislation never addressed the over $100 billion a year that the government already loses via waste and criminal fraud through its existing health care programs, billions that could have been used to help those today without health care coverage without destroying the current health care arrangements of millions of Americans. 

There you have it in a nutshell. The many reasons why the legislation is going to fail, unable to identify the underlying root causes of our high health care costs and the many ways it is causing havoc on Americans families across the country without any real societal benefit in return.

Interested in more bad news? Check out the following hundred or so other information sources that we have NOT even gotten to in our review of the worst piece of legislation ever written, Obama Care.

Whoops! Top Secret Obamacare Navigator Training Manual Made Public Online | Independent Journal Review 

America Passed ObamaCare for the Uninsured. And Guess What? They Don't Even Want It. | Independent Journal Review 

Creepiest Obama Story Yet 

Medicaid Growth: Catastrophe For State Budgets - Lunch Alert! 

Report: Ill-Trained Obamacare Navigators Encouraging Fraud, Jeopardizing Private Info 

Insurance companies to pour $500 million into ads promoting Obamacare in 2014 | AgainstCronyCapitalism.org 

Issa Slams Obamacare Navigators; Schumer: Cut Veterans' Benefits; NY Catholics Win Birth-Control Challenge 

Larry The Cable Guy's ObamaCare Joke Makes Critics "Cry Like Babies" 

Obamacare: What's Next? 

“Happy Holidays with Obamacare” #6: Medicaid | Americans for Prosperity 

Obamacare Patients To Cost Doctors And Hospitals Millions 

Sebelius ‘Urging’ Insurers to Cover People Who Haven’t Paid 

Errors Continue to Plague Government Health Site - WSJ.com 

Doctor Takes on Washington 

Anti-Obamacare Parody Song: 'You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Blue Shield' 

(Because of Medicare Reimbursement Rules) An effective eye drug is available for $50. But many doctors choose a $2,000 alternative. | AgainstCronyCapitalism.org 

‘There Was Nobody in Charge in the Administration’ 

Report on Obamacare Prep Shows 'No One in Charge' of White House 

Obamacare Architect: If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Pay More 

Conservabuzz – California Censors Government Employee for Daring to Criticize Obamacare 

Cruz SLAMS the 'lawless implementation of Obamacare' 

OBAMACARE PLANS EXCLUDE TOP HOSPITALS 

Crist's Full Obamacare Embrace/ Obama Accused of Freeing Iranian Spy In Iran Nuke Deal/ Welfare Recipient Mocks "Taxpayers & More... 

Millennials Abandon Obama and Obamacare - NationalJournal.com 

Dem Rep: People Losing Their Insurance Under Obamacare ‘A Good Thing’ 

EXPOSED: 126,000 Obamacare Enrollees Not Real // Mr. Conservative 

Dem Rep. Says Americans Losing Health Plans Under Obamacare is a 'Good Thing' 

IRS inspector general warns of Obamacare subsidy fraud | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government 

Doctors boycotting California's Obamacare exchange | Mobile Washington Examiner

Obama Claims ‘Regular’ Secret Meetings with Sebelius 

The Ruling Class is STILL shielding Obamacare 

Insurers on "honor system" for health plan subsidies | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government 

Florida's Own Pravda Blog/ God Approves Of Obamacare/ Palin Reacts to Bashir Quitting 

Americans for Prosperity on Pelosi's broken Obamacare promise | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government 

Obamacare Site For Congressional Staffers Crashes 

Obama Not Only Funds The Muslims they can opt out of the Obamacare with no penalties | 

More Obamacare woes: Federal website gives unusable Medicaid data - News-Sentinel.com 

Notre Dame Sues Obamacare; NSA Tracking Your Cellphone 

Megyn Kelly Loses It Over Huge New Obamacare Problem: 'That’s Your Money!' 

Obama Using Honor System to Pay Insurance Companies 

Harvard: Students turn on Obama, want him recalled, reject Obamacare | Mobile Washington Examiner 

Prize-Winning Obamacare video says not to worry about ricing prices 

'Dirty Harry' Exempts Staff From Obamacare 

Yes, Obama, Republicans have offered Obamacare alternatives | Mobile Washington Examiner 

Obama is a Racist for Promoting Obamacare 

More ObamaCare Chaos 

Healthcare.gov Cost 60 Times Too Much 

TheDC Links - Find out about the Obama administration's latest health care blowout 

Fox News Reporter Screenshots Healthcare.gov, No ObamaCare for Obama, Howard Dean Goes Full Socialist 

ObamaCare’s Latest Numbers Don’t Add Up. You Will Pay the Difference. 

Shocking Obamacare Poll Results... 

NY Times: Medicaid expansion could worsen doctor shortage | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government 

Anyone Who Promotes ObamaCare is a Racist and Here's Why 

Healthcare.gov is still a big security risk | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government 

Some Reid staffers exempt from Obamacare 

Does Obama want you infected with THIS? 

Obamacare Premiums Higher than the Mortgage 

UnitedHealthcare Dropping Hundreds Of Doctors From Medicare Advantage Plans - Kaiser Health News 

Barton: OCare Website Hidden Source Code Says Users "Have No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy" - YouTube 

Plouffe: Obamacare "Will Work Really Well" By 2017 

Corsi: Obamacare Nightmare Has Only Just Begun 

Obamacare premiums higher than the mortgage! 

Group Paid $1.1 Million To Promote Obamacare "Success Stories" - The Shark Tank - The Shark Tank 

Obamacare: Echoes of Stalinism Past 

The Obamacare Website has Relaunched - Here's How it Puts You in Danger. 

Sinister Source Code embedded in Obamacare program! 

Ellison Barber: Obamacare Website Is Not Fixed - YouTube 

Shocking video reveals way to repeal ObamaCare 

Polls Show ObamaCare Wave Building Against Senate Democrats 

Carney: Americans ‘Don’t Want an Effective Website’ 

No, Obamacare isn't fixed | Mobile Washington Examiner 

ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version 

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out Against Obamacare - Audited by IRS 

George Will: Medicaid is Next Obamacare Crisis 

Obamcare Forcing DEM's To Run For Cover/ Obama Dead Wrong On Terrorism/ More Dr.'s Run For Congress 

George Will: Medicaid Is Next Obamacare Crisis; Corker: Expect Higher Premiums, Less Choice 

TheDC Links - Obamacare website maker's Army corruption revealed 

"Shocking Obamacare Poll Results..."

Mark Halperin: Obamacare Contains 'Death Panels' 

Boy With Cancer, 7, Loses Health Insurance Because Of Obamacare | 

Mom with MS loses coverage due to Obamacare 

Poll: 59% Oppose Obamacare Insurance Mandate for Abortion, Sterilization | CNS News Mobile 

Obamacare is Killing a Mother with Multiple Sclerosis 

IRS auditing cancer patient who ripped Obamacare 

Allen West Rips Obamacare Website's Scheduled "Extended Maintenance" Down Time - The Shark Tank - The Shark Tank 

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out Against ObamaCare Now Being Audited 

TheDC Links - Obama loses another Hollywood big shot 

Lack of Doctors May Worsen as Millions Join Medicaid Rolls 

Democrats Poised For Rebellion Against Obama If Exchange Website Isn’t Fixed By December 1 Deadline 

Boy with cancer loses coverage after Obamacare launch 

See Everything This Mom’s Cutting to Pay for Obamacare 

Hobby Lobby vs. Obamacare Reaches Supreme Court 

Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled, experts predict | Fox News 

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December, 2013, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care Update, Part 1: Website Still Stinks, Doctor Shortages, Doctor Boycotts and More

This post starts the now monthly review of the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. Unfortunately for America, we have had to devote more and more attention and posts to this subject over the past four months as the negative ramifications of the legislation’s rollout and inner demons have become so obvious.

In each of the past three months we have had to use multiple days to cover all of Obama Care’s insanity. The first post in the August series can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/08/part-1-august-2013-obama-care-update.html

The first post in the September series can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-2013-obama-care-update-part-1.html

The first post in the October series can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-2013-obama-care-disaster-update.html

As a result of these previous, in-depth analyses and reviews, this month will focus more on the bad news than the analysis and research behind the bad news. We do that for two reasons:

1. First, we have already laid out the reasons why Obama Care can never be successful: it never researched and understood the underlying root causes of our high health care costs in this country. Without understanding root causes, the chances of actually resolving the true issues are next to nothing.
2. Second, we are currently looking at over 200 articles and analyses that prove Obama Care is a disaster. To repeat previous analyses and research would not allow us to make much of a dent into the ever growing failures. Thus, we will focus on news, not analysis, this month since the analysis discussed in preivous months; posts are unchanged.

So, let’s get started and see what evil and failure Obama Care has created in just the past four weeks or so:

1) One of the most visible disasters of Obama Care has been the website that prospective customers of Obama Care’s exchanges were supposed to be able to easily logon onto to and easily find health insurance policies that fit their needs. Most everyone in the country by now knows that the website process and experience has been an utter disaster with security breeches, website unavailability, and other problems.

How bad has the website experience been, keeping in mind that the Obama administration had three years and had spent well over a whopping $600 million to develop? According to a recent Gallup survey 63% of those uninsured Americans who have visited an Obama Care website described the experience as negative or very negative. Three years, $600 million spent and nearly two out of three people found the experience distasteful. Pathetic job of simple website development.

2) One of the major intentions of Obama Care was to get millions of uninsured Americans into health insurance policies. However, the logic of the legislation failed a basic and simple reasoning test: if millions of Americans now have health insurance they are more likely to use their health insurance options.

But if no provisions are made to increase the number of doctors to handle the millions of more potential customers, you are going to have a problem. It is a simple law of supply and demand. Increasing the demand while doing nothing to also increase the supply will result in shortage of supply and likely higher costs due to higher demand. And higher health care costs is the exact opposite of what Obama Care is supposed to do.

This fact of life was driven home by a recent Wall Street Journal article that was reviewed in the November 15, 2013 issue of The Week magazine. According to the article, the U.S. will likely be short 150,000 doctors by 2028, about 3,000 doctors per state on average. More importantly and distressingly, most of the shortage will be with primary care physicians, those doctors that people are most likely to want to see under their health insurance plans but who generally make far less money on average than medical specialists.

Which again illustrates a point we have made over the past few months: just because you have health insurance in the world of Obama Care does not mean you have adequate or any kind of health care, given what is likely a doctor shortage crisis that the writers of Obama Care were never smart enough to understand. The operation was a success (i.e., you have health insurance coverage) but the patient died (i.e. you could not get in to see a doctor).

3) Speaking of doctors shortages, consider what is going on in California. According to a recent Washington Examiner article, estimates say that a whopping 7 out of 10 California doctors will not participate in the Obama Care exchange in California because the insurance payments for services provided in exchange health care policies are too low.

Details from the article include the following:

• “It doesn’t surprise me that there’s a high rate of nonparticipation,” said Dr. Richard Thorp, president of the California Medical Association, a group that represent about 38,000 of the 100,000 or so California doctors.
• In September, less than a month before the exchanges went live, the California Obama Care exchange announced that doctor payment schedules will be linked to the state’s Medicaid rates, some of the lowest rate schedules in the country. 
• For example, in other states, Medicare pays doctors $76 for return-office visits. However, in California, Medi-Cal’s reimbursement is $24, according to Dr. Theodore M. Mazer, a San Diego ear, nose and throat doctor. This is the rate, $24, that the Obama Care insurance policies will be pegged to.
• In other states, doctors receive between $500 to $700 to perform a tonsillectomy. In California, they get $160.
• As a result, vast number of doctors will not become part of the Obama Care exchange doctors’ networks or will retire out of frustration, according to doctor quotes in the article.
• Dr. Theodore M. Mazer, a San Diego ear, nose and throat doctor is quoted in the article asserting that he knows of NO ONE in his area of expertise that has signed up to be part of the Obama Care exchange in California: “I cannot find anybody in my specialty in the area that has signed a contract directly with any of these plans.” Thus, if you live in California and rely on an Obama Care health insurance policy, try to make sure that you never get an ear, nose or throat affliction because your policy may not give you access to the right type of medical specialist.
• Mazer is one of those many, older California doctors who is thinking about retiring early as a result of Obama Care: “I just turned 55, and a lot of us are kind of going, ‘Maybe there’s something else we can do in the last 10 years,’ because this is just getting too onerous to keep on going.”
• As an additional insult, many doctors quoted in the article assert that their names were listed with the Obama Care exchange policies as being affiliated with those policies when in fact they had never signed up.

What a mess and another example of the adage: The operation was a success, (i.e. people got health insurance) but the patient died (they could not see a doctor who honored those policies.)

Of course, these lower reimbursement rates of Obama Care policies in California are an attempt to make those policies more affordable. But the creators of Obama Care never understood basic economics, namely that reducing the price you pay for a service discourages providers of those services. 

Thus, while the policies might look good and affordable up front, trying to actually use the promises in those policies will be the real challenge and danger in times of illness because the affordability of the policies dried up the servicers of those policies, i.e. it created acute doctor shortages.

4) The same flawed reasoning that is leading to limited access to the tope doctors and medical specialists is also being applied to the top hospitals and medical centers across the country, with the same results: severely reducing the hospital reimbursement levels for Obama Care insurance policies is resulting in top echelon hospitals not being part of the policies and not being accessible to those who buy those policies.

This was vividly illustrated in a recent Financial Times investigation. The Times found that Americans who are Obama Care online exchange policies will have limited access to some of the nation’s leading hospitals, including two world-renowned cancer centers.

This lack of access is caused by the drive by Obama Care insurers to limit costs. As examples, the Times report found that the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California will not provide access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, two top cancer hospitals, or Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the top research and teaching hospitals in the country.

The Times article pointed out two very real downsides of what Obama Care is doing to hospital access:

• Frustrated consumers could then begin to realize what is not always evident when buying a product as complicated as healthcare insurance: that their new plans do not cover many facilities or doctors “in network.” In other words, the facilities and doctors are not among the list of approved providers in a certain plan.
• Under some US health insurance plans, consumers can elect to visit medical facilities that are “out of network,” but they would probably incur high out of pocket costs and may need referrals to prove that such care is medically necessary
• Thus, if someone has to pay additional money to see the right type of doctor or hospital, doesn’t that negate the whole principle of lowering health care insurance and medical costs? Most people cannot preordain what kind of sickness or disease they get, opening themselves up to much higher medical costs if the limited number of doctors or hospitals they are allowed to see does not handle their kind of malady. 

So let’s review: Obama Care does nothing to cope with the increasing availability of health care access but the dramatically number of fewer doctors available in the country. Obama Care is limiting the number of doctors, including medical specialists, you can see, to reduce costs. Obama Care is limiting access to top hospitals, forcing Obama Care customers into possibly inferior facilities and treatment options, just to reduce costs without regard to health care quality. Oh yeah, the website still stinks.

As we have said many times before, Obama Care is a bad approach to providing health care insurance to millions of Americans. It is an even worse way to provide actual health care to millions of Americans. Under this legislation, health care insurance does not guarantee you access to quality health care or any health care at all, given the dire doctor shortage. More bad news tomorrow… and the next day, and the next day….

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Part 2, Freedom and Liberty Guest Speaker Week, Steve Foley: The Obama Care Train Wreck

This is a second in a series of guest posts from other Americans who also are fearing for our freedom, liberty, and democracy. Yesterday, we proved that a couple of dozen random thoughts from Mr. Thomas Sowell were more sightful and useful than ten years worth of thoughts from every politician who served in Congress or the White House over those ten years.

Today’s words of wisdom come from a Mr. Steve Foley who wrote and published the article, “Debt Flicks: True Lies,” on June 27, 2013 for the Minority Report blog. Mr. Foley’s article is not so much his writings and thoughts but a comprehensive compilation of points and counterpoints of different people relative to the impending Obama Care disaster. He cites quotes from Obama administration officials on how and why Obama Care will be so great and counters those overly rosy opinions with the views and quotes of experts who disagree.

The original web posting with his article can be accessed directly at the following site which contains the back up links which prove his points, namely that Obama Care will fail to meet all of its major objectives, regardless of what Obama officials tell us:

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2013/06/27/debt-flicks-true-lies/

The general format is that each Obama Care promise is listed first in each section and then expert opinions are listed immediately afterwards to factually debunk the administration’s false claims:

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Today it’s being reported that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ main message in the implementation of Obamacare is “countering false notions” about the law. It makes you wonder where these “false notions” are coming from. Seriously, who’s spreading this stuff? They should stop.

“[L]awmakers Said That Sebelius’s Main Message Was The Importance Of Countering False Notions About The Law That Are Prevailing Around The Country …”: (Paige Winfield Cunningham and Jennifer Haberkorn, “Dems to Sebelius: Seniors Confused on Obamacare,” POLITICO, 6/27/13)
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“FABULOUS” OR A “TRAIN WRECK”?

Notion: Obamacare Implementation Going “Fabulous”:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) Calls The Implementation Of Obamacare “Fabulous.”: “’The implementation of this [Obamacare] is fabulous,’ Pelosi said. ‘As we observe the Fourth of July, our founders talked about the Declaration of Independence guaranteeing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — that is what this is all about.’” (Paige Winfield Cunningham and Jennifer Haberkorn, “Dems to Sebelius: Seniors Confused on Obamacare,” POLITICO, 6/27/13)

Facts Point To More Of A Train Wreck:

Sen. Baucus (D-MT) Warns Of Impending ‘Train Wreck.’: “Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday he fears a ‘train wreck’ as the Obama administration implements its signature healthcare law…. ‘I just see a huge train wreck coming down,’ he told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a Wednesday hearing. ‘You and I have discussed this many times, and I don’t see any results yet.’” (Sam Baker, “Baucus warns of ‘huge train wreck’ enacting ObamaCare provisions,” The Hill, 4/17/13)

Obama Warns Of “Glitches” And “Bumps” In New Health Care Law: “Even if we do everything perfectly, there will still be glitches and bumps,’ Mr. Obama told reporters Tuesday. (Louise Radnofsky, “Obama Sees ‘Bumps’ for Health Law,” The Wall Street Journal, 5/1/13)

Obamacare “Might Not Be Ready For Prime Time.”: ”President Obama’s signature healthcare law might not be ready for prime time when people begin signing up for the new insurance exchanges on Oct. 1, according to a new government report.” (Elise Viebeck, “GAO: Obamacare launch in doubt,” The Hill, 6/19/13)

Failure To Establish Exchanges Could “Throw A Wrench” Into Obamacare Rollout: “Federal health officials are taking the lead in 34 states that have refused to mount their own exchanges because of opposition to ObamaCare. This outcome was not anticipated by authors of the Affordable Care Act and could throw a wrench in the law’s rollout, the nonpartisan investigators said.” (Elise Viebeck, “GAO: Obamacare launch in doubt,” The Hill, 6/19/13)

Administration Will Need $1.5 Billion In Additional Funds For Exchanges: “The GAO cited many factors that raise questions about the law’s readiness. The federal data hub that will power the exchanges has not been extensively tested, and the administration will need $1.5 billion in additional funds from Congress to operate the exchanges next year.” (Elise Viebeck, “GAO: Obamacare launch in doubt,” The Hill, 6/19/13)

WSJ: “Auditors Say HHS Isn’t Close To Being Ready To Launch In October”: “On Wednesday the auditors at the Government Accountability Office released the results of two investigations and optimistically conclude that it ‘cannot yet be determined’ if ObamaCare will be ready for enrollment a mere four months from now. The GAO’s detailed portrait of blown deadlines, regulatory improvisation and general chaos explains why HHS has been anti-transparent. … The 16 states running their own exchanges have between 16 and 52 key activities still undone, or about 85% on average of the total workload based on how demanding the activities are. The data show that the share of the states’ key activities that are off-schedule range from 17% to as much as 75%.” (Editorial, “Obamacare Trail Of Tears,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/19/13)
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QUALITY CARE OR DOCTOR SHORTAGES?

Notion: ACA Will Increase Access To Quality Care:

President Obama: ACA Will Increase Access To Quality Care: “Quality care is not something that should be a privilege, it should be a right. In the greatest country on Earth, we’ve got to make sure that every single person that needs health care can get it. And we’ve got to make sure that we do it in the most efficient way possible.” (President Obama, “Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance,” The New York Times, 6/7/13)

But Doctor Shortages Could Lead To A Backlog Of Patients And A Lesser Quality Of Care: Associated Press: “Doctor Shortage Predicted Under Obamacare.” (Ann Sanner, “Doctor shortage predicted under Obamacare,” Associated Press, 6/19/13)

Implementation Of Obamacare Could Lead To Shortage Of Doctors, Backlog of Patients: “A shortage of primary care physicians in some parts of the country is expected to worsen as millions of newly insured Americans gain coverage under the federal health care law next year. Doctors could face a backlog, and patients could find it difficult to get quick appointments. … The problem will become more acute nationally when about 30 million uninsured people eventually gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which takes full effect next year.” (Ann Sanner, “Doctor shortage predicted under Obamacare,” Associated Press, 6/19/13)

Nearly One In Five Already Facing Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians: “Nearly one in five Americans already lives in a region designated as having a shortage of primary care physicians, and the number of doctors entering the field isn’t expected keep pace with demand. About a quarter million primary care doctors work in America now, and the Association of American Medical Colleges projects the shortage will reach almost 30,000 in two years and will grow to about 66,000 in little more than a decade.” (Ann Sanner, “Doctor shortage predicted under Obamacare,” Associated Press, 6/19/13)

Safety Questioned: “Could Create A Two-Tier Health System Offering Unequal Treatment.”: “Lobbying groups representing doctors have questioned the safety of some of the proposed changes, argued they would encourage less collaboration among health professionals and suggested they could create a two-tiered health system offering unequal treatment.” (Ann Sanner, “Doctor shortage predicted under Obamacare,” Associated Press, 6/19/13)
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LOWER COSTS OR RATE INCREASES?

Notion: Obamacare Will Lower Costs

HSS Secretary Sebelius Says Obamacare Will Lower Costs: “‘It’s a demonstration of what the president has said all along — that you can decrease costs while improving care,’ Sebelius said, adding that both the Congressional Budget Office and independent actuary reports have shown that. ‘It’s very clear that some of the statutes in the Affordable Care Act are helping in lowering costs in overall health spending.’” (“Sebelius: GOP Governors Will Eventually Expand Medicaid,” USA Today, 3/21/13)

But Sebelius Also Admitted That Premiums Are Going To Increase: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Warns Premiums Would Most Likely Rise. “Insurance premiums could rise for some with individual plans, she [HHS Secretary Sebelius] said … ‘These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market,’ Sebelius said.” (Jeff Mason & David Morgan, “Kathleen Sebelius: Obamacare Implementation May Cause Some Health Care Costs To Rise,” The Huffington Post, 3/26/13)
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IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP IT?

Notion: If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It.

President Obama: “Under The Reforms We Seek, If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor: If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep Your Health Care Plan.” (President Obama, Weekly Address, The White House, 8/8/09)

You Might Be Losing Your Plan: Associated Press: “Like Your Health Care Policy? You May Be Losing It.” “The goal is to cover most of the nation’s nearly 50 million uninsured, but even Obama says there will be bumps in the road. And discontinued insurance plans could be another bump. Also, it doesn’t seem to square with one of the president’s best known promises about his health care overhaul: ‘If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.’” (Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, “Like Your Health Care Policy? You May Be Losing It,” Associated Press, 5/29/13)

Not surprising: Americans are losing trust: Half Of All Americans Say They Don’t Understand How It Will Affect Them. “A separate tracking survey conducted by Kaiser, which has done far more surveys on health care than any other polling organization, found that roughly half of American adults said they did not have enough information about the law to understand how it will affect them.” (Micah Coehn, “Uncertainty Still Clouds Health Care Law,” The New York Times, 5/1/13)

More View Law Negatively Than Positively (Same As When It Passed): “Among those who do have an opinion, more people still regard the health care law negatively than positively, according to a series of recent polls. In fact, the law’s net approval numbers stand basically where they did when it was passed.” (Micah Coehn, “Uncertainty Still Clouds Health Care Law,” The New York Times, 5/1/13)

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Nice work by Mr. Foley putting it all together for us in a neat package, what the political class claims is going to happen and what the press and experts are reporting will be far more likely to happen. Senator Baucus said it best when he called it a train wreck.

You can access some of our previous work, reaching the same conclusions on Obama Care at the following links:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-2013-obama-care-update-part-1-its.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-2013-obama-care-update-part-2-more.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-devastation-that-is-obama-care.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-devastation-that-is-obama-care_27.html

Choo Choo!!!!!!!

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