Hospital Costs Explode Under ObamaCare – ACO’s A Cost Driver?

Transcending Obamacare Fig 17

Thanks to federal intervention in the health care system—Medicare, Medicaid, and the employer tax exclusion—hospitals have been able to charge whatever they want for their services, knowing that the average consumer has no idea how much he’s paying, because he’s paying mostly through taxes and other indirect means…………..

Accountable Care Organizations, whose explicit goal is to encourage hospitals to consolidate the provider industry, thereby gives them more leverage to charge higher prices…………

The U.S. hospital industry is crony capitalism at its finest

If Obamacare had never passed, hospitals would have been under much more pressure to keep these costs down, because no one would be bailing them out if hospital care became increasingly unaffordable. The opposite, of course, has happened.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2015/01/12/what-60-minutes-didnt-tell-you-obamacare-will-drive-up-the-cost-of-hospital-care/