Obamacare has taken its toll on private insurance
companies and the middle class. North
Carolinians once had a choice between 29 different insurers, now there are only
8. The few who remain are threatened by
unrelenting waves of rising cost. Blue
Cross and Blue Shield are expected to report losses of $400 million for 2014
and 2015. This is unsustainable.
Progressives demand the Old North State expand
Medicaid rolls. They believe a government
takeover is a panacea for all the ills that plague our healthcare system, when in
fact it is the opposite. Carolina
Journal reported the following:
“If anything … the
reduction in the number of uninsured is really largely attributed to the number
of states that have decided to expand Medicaid, but other than that it’s really
not been successful,” said Katherine Restrepo, health and human services policy
analyst at the John Locke Foundation.
But those states that have expanded
Medicaid have found it “only increases costs for private coverage, and that
squeezes out the middle class people from being able to afford their health
insurance plans if they don’t have them through their employer,” Restrepo said.
Medicaid expansion also increases the
scope of the government safety net, “and when you have government rate-setting,
and determining what services a doctor can provide, that just creates all sorts
of problems, and access problems, and then that compromises quality of care,”
Restrepo said.
Quality
of care doesn’t rate highly on a progressives’ playlist, neither does the middle
class despite their protestations. They’re
more concerned about intentions than outcomes.
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