Clinic overflow, thousands arrive for primary care appointment……………
Government mandated universal health care is a foregone conclusion. Purveyors of commercial health plans and medical caregivers are living in a bubble, milking the system for all it’s worth for as long as they can.
The masses are tired. More and more Americans, regardless of political persuasion, are looking to government for help because nothing else has worked. But is it really true? Is it “more and more Americans” or “less and less Americans?“
Here are the numbers:
Medicaid/ Chips 83,000,000
Medicare 64,000,000
Marketplace 21,000,000
Government Employees 24,000,000
U.S. Population 336,000,000
% Government Plans 57%
# Americans Paying Taxes 154,000,000
% Americans Paying Texas 24%
Over half of the American population is enrolled on a government health plan paid for by 24% of the population.
What will universal health care look like? Madam Palm down on 14th Street predicts:
- Care rationing, grandparents and the terminally ill will not be happy
- Commerical carriers will act as administrators, not insurers
- Independent Third Party Administrators will go to Costa Rica and live on the beach
- Private practice will be able to operate on a subscription model with govt. oversight
- Payroll tax will hover around 10-12% for all workers and 0% for non-workers
- Over half the population will get free care paid by the other half of the population
- Drug prices will be regulated – Patents denied or limited by statute
- Balance billing will be illegal
- All human beings within the geographic boundaries of the U.S. will be covered
- All non-human beings will not be covered
- Abortions will be covered without limitation, survivors covered at birth
- Health insurance brokers will disappear or morph into voluntary benefits brokers
- Reference Based Pricing will be universal
- Shared savings third party vendor contracts will be illegal
- Health insurance consultants will move to Costa Rica and live on the beach
- PPO networks will be obsolete
- Medicare network will be the exclusive, and only, PPO network
- Hospital administrators will take a pay cut, some will go to Costa Rica and live…..
- Medical school enrollment will decline – Trade school enrollment will increase
- ICHRA’s will be the foundation of the American universal health care model
When will all this happen? It could be in one or two election cycles from now. Madam Palm refuses to say. “It’s not in the cards. Come back tomorrow and bring a sacrificial chicken” she said. “I’ll have the candles lit.”
