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26 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by pnoetx in Obamacare, Shortage, The Road To Serfdom

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Band the cost curve, Classical Values, Death Spiral, federal subsidies, Joel Winberg, King v. Burwell, Medicaid reimbursement, Obamacare, Rand Paul, Risk corridors, SCOTUS, Shortage

Doctor-shortage

In bondage to the State: The Classical Values blog has this interesting quote from Dr. Rand Paul:

“With regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies….I’m a physician, that means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me, it means you believe in slavery. It means you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the assistants, the nurses…There’s an implied threat of force, do you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away, and force me to take care of you? That’s is ultimately what the right to free healthcare would be.”

It would be “free” only in nominal terms to the patient, and greatly degraded. The gap between the need for health care and the available supply cannot be solved via “conscription” of providers. And caring for the sick is one thing, but granting a “right” to well-care or health maintenance makes the gap much larger. Inadequate compensation to providers is an important subtext here, and it goes to the heart of the conflict. Basic economics tells us that the gap in access will expand if buyers are subsidized and providers are penalized by artificially low prices. The expanded eligibility for Medicaid in many states under Obamacare only exacerbates shortages, as physician reimbursements remain generally low.

Obamacare may have improved access to health care for a small minority of individuals, but only at the expense of penalizing many others, including providers. The program has fallen far short of its goal of covering the uninsured and has failed to “bend the cost curve” (despite false claims to the contrary, which attempt to take credit away from the Great Recession for slowing costs). Obamacare still looks to be unsustainable, as many have predicted. Insurers are now seeking large rate increases in many states, and going forward, they will not have the cushion of government-funded “risk corridors” when premiums fail to cover claims.

A Supreme Court ruling in the King v. Burwell case is due next month. The case has been discussed on this blog twice this spring. The plaintiffs have challenged federal subsidies in states relying on federal insurance exchanges in direct contradiction to the “plain language of the law”. The subsidies were intended to be an inducement to states to set up their own exchanges, but a number of states chose not to do so. A ruling for the plaintiffs would severely damage the Obamacare program, since the subsidies are key to making the relatively extravagant mandated coverage affordable to low-income individuals. However, Joel Zinberg insists that ending federal subsidies will not cause a death spiral.

Still, such a ruling would seem to give Congress and the Republicans an opportunity to craft legislation to replace Obamacare with a more viable program. Republicans seem have been unable to craft a strategy for dealing with this contingency, but their best strategy might be to wait, pass an extension of subsidies until 2017, and dare Obama not to sign it into law.

Does THC Hold a Cure For Cancer?

23 Thursday Oct 2014

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Alzheimer's, Cancer, Cannabinoids, Classical Values, Curing Cancer, National Cancer Institute

Cancer

Cancer research is proceeding along a number of promising avenues, but there is an apparent gulf between the promise of one class of potential cures and the emphasis it receives in terms of publicity and funding: cannabinoids. Contrary to what some might suspect, when I say that cannabinoids show promise, it is not grounded in pseudoscientific balderdash, a topic on which I posted last night! Indeed, there is a brief but solid history of research showing the potential of cannabinoids in fighting cancer, as shown at this page on the National Cancer Institute website. The Classical Values blog has a post with quotes from the site; and CV bemoans the lack of attention devoted by the media to this type of research.

Unfortunately, until more effort is devoted to studying the effects of cannabinoids on cancer in humans, including optimization of its delivery, those cancer victims with an awareness of the research will be consigned to using covert and undoubtedly less effective means of ingestion, and many others will go uninformed. A disclaimer: it should go without saying that cancer victims should not undertake experiments with cannabinoids to the exclusion of other treatments recommended by personal physicians or specialists.

Cannabinoids may hold promise in treating other prominent disorders. Again at Classical Values, this post discusses their potential usefulness in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease, quoting a study conducted at the University of South Florida.

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