Medicare Rationing Leads to Private Insurance Rationing | Vision ...

Written on May 12, 2011 at 8:00 am by V2A Filed under Government, Health Care {9 comments}

Conservatives looking to balance the federal budget know the importance of reining in the cost of Medicare. But how you reduce the cost of the program is almost as important as whether you reduce the cost. The implications are enormous and here is why.

Burke Balch, the Director of the Powell Center for Medical Ethics, has done extensive research into the intricate connection of policy provisions contained in the ObamaCare legislation that all lead America down the road to rationing. Balch sees three avenues to rationing, with the primary danger coming from the creation of the new Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).

In the State of the Union speech, President Obama said of what people are allowed to spend on health care, ?The health insurance law we passed last year will slow these rising costs.? And he called for ?further reducing health care costs.?

As Balch notes, What Obama didn?t mention was how the Obama health care law will ?slow . . . rising costs.? It will do so in large part by forcing doctors and other health care providers to limit care, through ?quality and efficiency? standards imposed on them that will establish one uniform national standard of care for what treatment may ? and may not ? be offered patients. Beginning in 2015, these ?quality and efficiency? standards will be drawn from recommendations of an 18-member Independent Payment Advisory Board that is directed to come up with ways to limit what private citizens choose to pay, using their own funds and private insurance, so that they cannot keep up with the rate of medical inflation.

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Source: http://visiontoamerica.org/609/medicare-rationing-leads-to-private-insurance-rationing/

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