The stark contrast between the tough line of government, provider, and insurance company stakeholder arguments against consumers, punishing citizens for becoming old, ill or for being imperfect and unworthy of being able to obtain needed medical care to the point of barbaric changes requiring people suffering from illness to decide whether their lives are worth the cost of care needed to sustain their lives in the face of the probability that such money will be “well spent,” is doubly astonishing when we listen to the impassioned arguments for and against the survival of a piece of legislation about healthcare, Obamacare. There’s something really wrong.
And now we get the tearful pleas from those advocating for the poor medical device makers who don’t want to pay a tax to fund the government’s project…Obamacare and the impassioned scolding of those defending the life of Obamacare as “needing” that money.
It’s a disgrace and more of a disgrace when coincidentally a news report out of India shows what India is considering in the face of the rising costs of medical devices. Consider reading an article in the “Hindustan Times,” July 13, 2015, by Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi where surging costs of medical devices is also being considered by the Indian government.
In the article titled, “Price control planned, critical medical devices to become affordable,” we are informed that, “The government will regulate prices of medical devices and set up an agency to encourage domestic manufacturers in the $3.5 billion industry under the Make in India campaign in a bid to lower healthcare costs even in the private sector, according to sources.”
The article is worth reading because it speaks of two noticeably absent philosophies from US health industry, first, PRICE CONTROLS imposed on health industry titans and secondly, pride in country (MAKE IN INDIA).
With every new issue that arises it should be very obvious that Obamacare is a cold-hearted play to save government money at the expense of anyone and everyone and that’s really all it’s about.
This clarity is more obvious as the sheer audacious lies about benefits to consumers are revealed to be part of this single-minded public employee goal of saving government money. From the disparity in government employee health plans that are far superior to citizen options based on breadth and cost of coverage, to getting people insured (by forcing insurance or penalizing them through a tax), to covering pre-existing conditions (again to keep people buying insurance even in the face of rising personal out-of-pocket expenses for care in the form of copayments, narrower coverage, rising coinsurance and rising deductibles), to its reduction in per capita health insurance spending by government on behalf of citizens but uncounted and never-to-be counted increased administrative costs of new government class workers and budgets, Obamacare has divorced government's purpose and actions from any reasonable notion of a public good.
It doesn’t matter whether the medical device tax is repealed or not for consumer stakeholders because we know that we will pay more one way or another because there are no price controls and we know that the only time we hear our lawmakers make impassioned pleas for survival it’s about the survival of Obamacare’s life, not people’s.
The medical device argument is about whether money citizens pay should stay with the medical device guys or if a small portion of it should be paid to the federal government to pad out its money in from Obamacare. Either way consumers lose because unlike India, you won't hear about putting in PRICE CONTROLS and our prices will keep going up and you won't hear about moving jobs and business to the US like the MAKE IN INDIA goals.
