Scott Gottlieb points out in the Wall Street Journal that Medicaid is an unmittigated disaster for patients:
Accumulating medical data shows that Medicaid recipients’ poor health outcomes aren’t just a function of their underlying medical problems, but a more direct consequence of the program’s shortcomings.
And how do our “leaders” in D.C. respond to efforts to fix the program? Why, they block them, of course:
The federal government has often prevented the states from taking steps to fix their own Medicaid programs, such as by devising outcome-based standards for evaluating performance.
But surely this kind of nonsense will change now that we have a new sheriff in town, right? Wrong.
Now Medicaid is to receive a bolus of federal money, probably as part of the fiscal stimulus plan — the figure whispered in Washington is $100 billion — with no obligation that the program does anything to reverse its decline.
This is government-run health care, folks. Dishonest people doing stupid things. It has always been thus.
[HT John Goodman]
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