Major Chunk of Obamacare Spit Out by Health Care Providers

So much for the Presidential promise that his shiny new Obamacare milkshake would bring all the health care providers to the yard.

President Barack Obama’s main idea for getting quality health care at less cost was in jeopardy Wednesday after key medical providers called his administration’s initial blueprint so complex it’s unworkable.

Just over a month ago, top officials released long-awaited draft regulations for “accountable care organizations,” networks of doctors and hospitals that would collaborate to keep Medicare patients healthier and share in the savings with taxpayers. Obama’s health care overhaul law envisioned quickly setting up hundreds of such networks around the county to lead a bottom-up reform of America’s bloated health care system.

But in an unusual rebuke, an umbrella group representing premier organizations such as the Mayo Clinic wrote the administration Wednesday saying that more than 90 percent of its members would not participate, because the rules as written are so onerous it would be nearly impossible for them to succeed.

Note the silly notion from the AP that the networks, designed and regulated by Washington, comprise a “bottom-up” reform. What the government is trying to do with these “accountable care organizations” is substitute a Rube Goldberg bureaucratic contraption for free market forces.

It won’t work because government can’t help but be overly complex, top-heavy, and a huge wet blanket on innovation and enterprise. And that’s what the Obama administration heard from the providers they hoped would buy into their scheme. According to the survey, the health care providers almost unanimously said the President’s miracle cure is too complicated, too costly, and too hostile to business success. In other words, the criticisms many of us had of Obamacare way back before the Democrats jammed this horrid pile of totalitarian dung down our throats were entirely correct.

These regulations are going to happen, by the way, whether we like them or not. They’re part of Obamacare and, until we get its repeal, we’re going to live under the dictates of a bunch of left-wing control freaks. Might as well re-light the repeal fires under your members of Congress (and your Presidential candidates, too).

 

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