The introduction of the new health care policies
should have offered the targeted people choices by means of computer-aided
market platforms. The federal government’s programming of these market
platforms was disastrous. Valuable time for new applications was taken up with
corrections and patchwork repairs presumably strengthening the predominant
rejection of mandatory health care throughout the country. Federal government regulations are met with
suspicion and treated with utmost skepticism. The introduction of Obamacare is
no exception.
It is interesting that the new mandatory insurance is aimed at about 15%
of the population, i.e., more than 80% of residents have health care and know
about its benefits. Yet, a majority rejects Obamacare.
Whoever is covered by a health care plan pays a predetermined price for
visits to the doctor or hospital negotiated with the insurance company. A
special report by Steven Brill shows that especially middle class patients
without insurance coverage pay for the horrendous cost of their treatment,
thereby depleting their savings often earmarked for retirement.[1] As
all residents must have health care insurance by 2014, negotiated prices will
have to be paid in full or partially by the health insurers.
[1] Steven Brill, Bitter Pill, Why Medical Bills Are
Killing Us, Special Report in Time Magazine, March 4, 2013
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