HealthCare Reform

Article found in local newspaper.
Did you know hospitals are paid "by the stay"(using a gov't-based system based on diagnosis) while doctors are paid "by the day" (every day they see a patient in the hospital they bill for the encounter)? What this means is that the hospitals do better financially if patient stays are shorter, but the doc do better if the pateien stay in the hospital longer. How can we reform a system without aligning incentives?
In the O'HealthCare Law there are over 3,000 times where it is mentioned that the HHS Secretary must be consulted for interpretation. In other words the people who signed off on the Bill had no clue what they were signing. Can't repeal the damn law, but it sure can be underfunded until common sense is made of that joundice Law.
Here is something for seniors...remember PP stated he was going to send seniors a rebate check for $250 to help offset some Medicare costs affected when he stopped COLA for Medicare Yr2010. Well here is what happens. In the fine print, only those impacted by the "drug donnut hole" will be eligible for his rebate. Only a fraction of the senior are impact by the donnut hole or where the patient pays 100% of the drug costs.

Word to the wise...get familar with the new law because it is going to affect you.