10-07-2010, 12:41 AM
Somebody still has to pay for that 'free' (to the McDs worker) health care.
And eliminating lifetime caps could make it even more expensive:
How will the ACA address those whose disease didn't respond to the fourth round of treatment but still want more even though their doctor(s) wanted to refer them to Hospice months ago?
Does that 'no lifetime cap' force plans to pay for continued treatment when none of the treating physicians think it will have any benefit?
Do we follow evidence-based medicine or give into the hysteria over 'death panels' and end up with a few dozen (breathtakingly expensive) Motl Brody cases a year?
And eliminating lifetime caps could make it even more expensive:
How will the ACA address those whose disease didn't respond to the fourth round of treatment but still want more even though their doctor(s) wanted to refer them to Hospice months ago?
Does that 'no lifetime cap' force plans to pay for continued treatment when none of the treating physicians think it will have any benefit?
Do we follow evidence-based medicine or give into the hysteria over 'death panels' and end up with a few dozen (breathtakingly expensive) Motl Brody cases a year?