Court Says Bureaucrats, Not Doctors, Decide What Is ‘Medically Necessary’
For those who argue that insurance and HMOs are making the choices, you are very much right. However, people can turn to the media and the govt (courts, Congress) when there is fault, to which you hear how these third parties are NOT the advocates of health care, that the doctors are.
HOWEVER, let DC run the insurance and the HMOs and they WILL NO longer advocate patient and doctor over insurers as THEY are the insurer. And if you hate the IRS and Most Things Beltway, what makes you think you will love US GOVT Health care? We will not get what Pelosi and Kennedy get: we will be rationed. This is definitely one place where America will be just like everyone else in the world.
And Oscar, don’t even begin to speak for us readers. You are reading the op ed of a black female lib who was without insurance from 1996-2001 and 2003-2006. But I’m not naive or in denial of what could happen. I want national health care to work and pray that I am wrong. But there are too many scenarios, including in the Sainted Health Care system of Sweden, that shows otherwise.
