Doctors and hospitals will be rewarded through payments if they follow the centralized bureaucracy's dictates; they will be penalized with reduced payments if they don't. You will never know what happened to you. The doctor is not going to tell you, "I could have saved your daughter's life with this new treatment, but that is not yet a best practice according to the government."
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Don't they currently have to follow the dictates of the health insurance companies bureaucracies?
Well let's think about this. There is a choice of health insurers.
If it's tied to your job, if enough people are unhappy with their insurer, the company can switch insurers.
If ObamaCare passes, the private insurance market will essentially disappear. And where will be your recourse if you are not treated well?
I'm not sure that without the public option that private insurance will disappear. But, if a company switches health insurers, for someone who's already sick and was denied by the previous insurer, they're still out of luck, as virtually every insurer has rules against covering "pre-extisting" conditions. The way around that would seem simple and rather cheap: to mandate by statute that health care decisions are only made by doctors and their patients (barring bureaucrats from stepping in),forbidding insurers from rewarding doctors who deny patients treatment, and forbidding insurers from barring treatment based upon pre-existing conditions. I think that would cost a negligible amount of money to enforce, as most companies would comply and probably nearly zero dollars to enact. Then, the only two major problems that remain would be costs for people who are getting their insurance premiums jacked up dramatically and extending coverage to those who don't have it.
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