Donald Berwick Doesn’t Have A Secret Plan To Ration Health Care

2:17 am EST July 9th, 2010 | Conservative | 8 Comments

No matter how many times Glenn Beck yells it, it isn’t true.

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8 Responses to “Donald Berwick Doesn’t Have A Secret Plan To Ration Health Care”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    July 9, 2010 at 7:40 am

    Oliver, when you’re right, you’re right: there’s NOTHING “secret” about about Berwick’s rationing plans.

  2. locus says:
    July 9, 2010 at 9:08 am

    Farris,

    Can I ask you a serious question?

    Do you believe that we’re already “rationing” healthcare?

    I can think of a couple of examples where people aren’t allowed to secure all the healthcare they want. Doctors offer the first example. First of all, they don’t accept all insurance. Patients with perfectly good insurance are denied services because some physicians do not liek the reimbursements they will receive under that patient’s insurance. Second, physicians authorize what care you receive, and not what you’d like to have. Of course, they will usually succumb to the wishes of their patients.

    Pharmaceutical formularies are another form of rationing already occuring within both private and public health insurance plans. Tiered formularies (higher prices for name brands vs. generics) are a form of economic rationing where only the wealthy or those that can purchase the more expensive and generous plans can choose the name brands. Everyone else gets generics or older versions of meds.

    What about the rationing that occurs due to geography/access to providers? Western Americans who live in very rural areas don’t have the same access as East-coast city dwellers.

    I’m sure others on this thread can think of a number of other options.

    Everyone who has taken a serious view of the heathcare industry and healthcare economics already agree that “rationing” in one form or another is already in practice and has become the norm to achieve moderate cost savings.

    This is simply another political ploy and doesn’t reflect the real world.

  3. jr says:
    July 9, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    “DONALD BERWICK IS A MEMBER OF THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS”-Matt Drudge

  4. NCSenior says:
    July 9, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    Anyone who has had to get medical care via a HMO knows all about health care rationing.

  5. merl says:
    July 9, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Keep government hands off my medicare!!!!
    what the hell is rationing supposed to be, anyway?

  6. Dr. Psycho says:
    July 10, 2010 at 7:43 am

    It’s always always always about projection.
    Opponents of public health care are supporting the CURRENT rationing system.
    That is all.

  7. gocart says:
    July 10, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    When a corporation rations he does it for our own good.

  8. LongHairedWeirdo says:
    July 11, 2010 at 10:47 am

    I’m just curious why SaveFarris is demanding that every insurance company should pay for any and all medical procedures requested, however useless or elective they might be.

    Of course, if SF isn’t insisting on that, then SF is in favor of rationing, and is a hypocritical idiot.

    Hell of a choice.