Accountable Care Organizations

Dangers of Accountable Care Organizations 0
- September 6, 2011
So-called “Accountable Care Organization” pits doctors’ financial incentives against what is best for patients.
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Will ObamaCare produce cascade of insolvent Colorado insurers?0
- July 18, 2011
ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. …[In] Colorado, where one large health plan has already announced plans to leave the state, Graham’s analysis demonstrates a “cascade” of insolvency, whereby only five of the ten largest plans in 2009 will be operating in 2017.
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“Accountable Care Organizations”: The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care 0
- July 12, 2011
In the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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What’s wrong with “evidence based medicine”?0
- June 28, 2011
John Goodman lists the problems with “evidence based medicine.” Think of it this way: What if there were a rule that says you can’t do anything during the week unless it is on the calendar by Sunday. Call this “calendar-based scheduling.” Instead of being an aide, the calendar would quickly become an oppressive barrier to your freedom of action.
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Accountable Care Organizations: Soviet-style command & control medicine that strangles innovation & quality 0
- June 22, 2011
Accountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.”
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Health care “reform” and “accountable care” vs. doctors’ autonomy 0
- June 16, 2011
Under ObamaCare, doctors “lose their ability to practice medicine as they envisioned. The government will be making so many decisions about how doctors will be paid, what they will be paid, and what type of practice they can establish and operate.”
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