ObamaCare Won’t Work as Promised: Here’s the Proof
by Doug O'BrienThe controversy surrounding the recent mammography guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a recommendation for swift and decisive defeat of efforts to expand federal oversight of health care. It almost seems as if this was designed as a laboratory experiment to learn exactly what will happen under Obamacare. The results validate some of the most compelling arguments that opponents have made over the past few months.
When opponents claim that Obamacare will lead to rationing of medical services, defenders counter with an irrelevant but true retort that care is already rationed by insurance companies. By this logic, everything is rationed by economics. Housing is rationed by the availability of capital to invest in housing which is a collective market choice. Cars are rationed in that you can’t just walk into a dealer and drive off the lot. So, yes, currently the health care market, mostly in the form of third-party payers (insurers and public programs), rations care in that there are finite resources to pay for treatments and everyone cannot have everything any time they wish.
The reason that argument is irrelevant is that the debate here is about government rationing of care, which represents an entire new level of restrictions on individuals. When the government sets up panels of “experts” to make recommendations of what kind of care is appropriate under what circumstances and those recommendations are implemented in the form of regulations over what care will and will not be paid for by both private and public insurance, it limits the rights of patients to control their care in consultation with their physicians. It also destroys the market for those excluded treatments which then become either prohibitively expensive or entirely unavailable.
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