10-07-2010, 05:33 PM
Bill in NC wrote:
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?
Under the current ACA law, all coverage would be by private insurers (just that more people could not be denied coverage and more would get subsidies to pay for the coverage). I doubt that the private insurers would institute guidelines or protocols that would do the things you are concerned about. Have you heard something to the contrary?