I think '' breaking up the "Provider Networks" who engage in price fixing and price manipulation will be a plus for America, and then Breaking Up the Hospital Networks that are entrenched into "cost manipulations".
We can break up the system of Surgeon's charging $10's of thousands of dollars for procedures. And doing so moves Robotic Surgery to the forefront for procedures that can be performed by this unit. This sad issue of paying surgeons, $10's of thousands for a few hours of work regardless of the procedure type, is an absurdity, an absurdity that Insurance Companies never took even the slightest stance to fight against, because insurance companies were groomed to 'deny services", "delay services" and leave the individual with massive financial encumbrances.
Health Care NEVER should have been a "get rich quick game"... No doctor would be imporvished, based on lower cost. We have Doctors today, who make so much by exaggerated cost until many have become "Real Estate Holding Barrons". Hospital Networks scam cities of tax revenues with their Non-Profit Listing, and then they buy up any empty building, and rent out the space to their doctors in their network, again, skirting real estate revenue that should be collected by cities.
Then there's the "Pill Mill" type of programs, where they no longer seek to cure issue, only to medicate it with life long medications, rather than good medical monitoring and programming that can arrest various conditions.
I think when they get control of this madness, they will then come up with solid ways to deal with cancer, because it will not longer be a guaranteed 2 yrs Money Train, to ensure guaranteed profits increase during the 2 yr cycle.
Parents won't have to suffer nor their children waiting on some network to approve the care they need. We may even see a great increase in training people specifically for "Elderly Care", and building more facilities across the country where senior's can get managed care and lower the cost of Rehab and Assisted Living.
We may even see, facilities set up with dozens of MRI Machines, and take that away from the monologue that hospitals have engaged to dominate this, and then stretch people out months, claiming backlog. CT Scans can be routine, rather than office visit guess work, Ultra sound won't be costing $1000 plus for a 3.5 minute scan.
ACA set up a pathway to make all this possible. The game those played who fought ACA and supported the Medical Industry Lobby game, and allowing them to raise the prices will be vanquished.
There can be monthly payments for each citizen... that would not exceed $XXX per person for the coverage. Prescription medicine which often use much of "government grant funding in their research" will not be able to get "exclusive patents", if they use government funds, those patents will belong to the government, not the company that used the government funds.
