Category Archives: Declining Quality of Care

Put Your Faith in Government and You Will Be Disappointed (All the Bad News about Obamacare)

Posted on July 15, 2021 by OCTS1

The Supreme Court may have upheld Obamacare for a third time, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right direction or good for the country.  There is a steady stream of bad news about Obamacare that generally gets ignored, but I’m … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Now Boasting About Targeting Young People with Substandard Policies

Posted on November 9, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment:  Obamacare is now selling “substandard” plans to young people in New York, and it’s one of their most popular plans.  But we were told not terribly long ago that Obamacare was needed precisely to eliminate these “substandard” plans. Join … Continue reading →

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REBELLION–Over Half of Physicians Won’t Take New Obamacare Patients

Posted on November 1, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Patients aren’t the only ones dissatisfied with national socialized medicine–podiatrists are voting with their feet! “The number of physicians who say they’re accepting health insurance plans offered on Obamacare’s federal and state marketplaces has plummeted nearly 20 percentage points, … Continue reading →

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Free Doctor-Owned Hospitals from the Shackles of Obamacare

Posted on June 23, 2016 by OCTS1

Under Obamacare, physician-owned hospitals (POHs) are prohibited from expanding while their competitors remain free to do so.  Physicians and their financiers lost millions of dollars when 30 expansion projects already underway were scuttled by the Affordable Care Act.  Only a … Continue reading →

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Besides Wasting Money, Are Obamacare’s E-records Killing People?

Posted on June 18, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Though advertised to save money (long debunked [1]), the real purposes of Orwellbamacare’s electronic data-gathering seem to be invading your privacy and making health care as unwieldy and expensive as possible.  But besides driving up cost and driving down … Continue reading →

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Schadenfreude Special: Obamacare Grubers Discovering That Unicorns Aren’t Free

Posted on March 21, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: After years of operation Obamacare experts have suddenly discovered that Obamacare does the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.  But don’t worry, they have a solution: more. “For years, leading health experts have said the way … Continue reading →

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2015: The Year These Big Obamcare Lies Came Home to Roost

Posted on January 13, 2016 by OCTS4

Lie #1. KEEP YOUR PLAN: Remember how you’d be able to keep your plans? That was before Obamacare made them untenable… “Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona has changed all of the plans it offers through Healthcare.gov from preferred provider … Continue reading →

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Exposing the Hospitals’ ‘Uncompensated Care’ Lie

Posted on December 23, 2015 by OCTS4

How Hospital Bills Have Gotten So Far Out of Hand, and Who Profits Comment:  Dr. Keith Smith, M.D., co-founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, explains in plain language how hospitals’ bills have gotten so far out of hand, and … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Has Made Health Care Less Efficient

Posted on December 18, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: ‘Less efficient’ means more expensive, less affordable, and generally less responsive to the people using it.  Since those changes are the opposite of progress (and the opposite of what people want and need), this also means Obamacare is less … Continue reading →

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unACA Expansion Flood Drowns Medicaid System

Posted on December 17, 2015 by OCTS4

“We have free health insurance, but that doesn’t mean we have healthcare.” Comment: The unAffordable Act’s expanded Medicaid (coming to a state near you), eagerly herds legions into the government’s Under-the-Poverty-Line Welfare Trap(tm), which is also expanding due to the … Continue reading →

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