New Obamacare provision in effect today

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

the doctor-patient relationship is secondary to the government's word.

What's next?

I guess you are unawares that right now, the doctor-patient relationship is secondary to the private insurance companies word on how many days they will pay for hospitalization, and what treatments they will cover?

You are unawares that 100% of your allowable (meaning paid for) medical treatment for a conditions is dictated by private insurance company actuaries, not by what your doctor might choose to do?

Yes, the treatments for common conditions are dictated by insurance companies, not your doctor.

That patients are often sent home a day early by private insurance companies trying to save money, causing "bounce back" of some of those patients because she wasn't ready to go home yet, and the insurance company was mandating an early discharge for profit?

Yes, the government preventing that "bounce back" for the patients it pays for - Medicare patients - is a good thing.

Medicare provides better care for patients, at a vastly decreased cost, than private insurance companies do.

Those with private insurance will have to take their chances.

Why this country doesn't have single-payer, like other first world countries, is due simply to the fact that too much of our congress is owned by private insurance companies.