May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
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).
READ MOREJohn 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.
READ MOREAccountable 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.”
READ MOREUnder 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.”
READ MOREObama administration’s efforts to promote accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare are failing because they are “premised on the fatal conceit that government experts can direct the market better than millions of consumers making their own decisions.”
READ MOREThe fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they’d rather be ‘accountable’ to their ACO paymasters rather than patients.
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