Quote Originally Posted by commiecat View Post
Private insurance will still be owned privately and the current doctors and nurses will still be taking care of you.

What's incorrect about that? Where does it say that government will control our health care? That's like saying that government has control of package delivery.

Offering one option in a sea of many is far from taking control as far as I'm concerned.
Unfortunately I don't have access to the Pelosi bill. My understanding is that there is a provision that penalizes doctors who order medical tests above a certain percentile (Physicians Argue Against Provision Penalizing for Excessive Testing in Healthcare Reform Bill | Business and Financial | News and Analysis)

Sounds like government control to me.

If your doctor is considering performing that one-more-diagnostic-test-just-to-be-sure, will the procedure be skipped because the doctor finally decides it's unnecessary? or due to a fear of being penalized? You'll never know.

The bill is over 1900 pages. In 1900 pages there can be many such provisions. A good way to hide problematic provisions is to bury them in a voluminous mountain of legalese. Since when does it require 1900 pages to define how a doctor gets paid?