"The parallels are obvious. Any discussion of the comparison is thus far conspicuously absent. If you like the way the government administers health care to our veterans, you'll love Obamacare!"Maybe the exclamation point is meant to head off any further consideration of his opinion, but I don't find his parallels "obvious" at all.
The VA is a cabinet level veterans benefit system, Obamacare is a series of laws passed by congress that mandate private insurance coverage for use among private health care providers and which helps pay for that private insurance with sliding scale subsidies.
Obvious? I think what's obvious is that Dr. Wolicki, who himself received over $30,000 in public payments last year through government administered Medicare, has something against Obamacare he is unable to articulate cogently.
I thought the same thing.
ReplyDeleteyeah, if you are a doctor and half your clientele is over 65, and you accept medicare money because that's all the only way you are going to get paid anything for your services, you have no right to have an opinion on Obamacare, or at least an unfavorable one. You should also refuse all mail from the US postal service if you don't believe in further government expansion.
ReplyDeleteYou put words in my mouth to argue against a point I did not make. My point was that it is rather hypocritical of Wolicki to paint Obamacare as government health care (when it is primarily private health insurance) while he, at the same time, is benefiting financially from what is, in actuality, government payments for health care.
ReplyDeleteWolicki is entitled to his opinion. We are entitled to notice that it's shallow, confused and hypocritical.
I'll take it further. His statement is also wrong. Of course Dr. Wolicki is free to hate Obamacare. But if you and I can see the difference between government provision of health care and government regulation of private health insurance, shouldn't a physician be capable of that as well? He seems not to understand the basic facts of the ACA.
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