Democrats Add $200 Billion In Deficits To The Health Care Bill

They passed the “doc fix” bill takes cuts in payments to doctors out of the House health care bill. Previously the Democrats were using these cuts to hide the deficit spending in the bill.

WASHINGTON – The House has voted to add more than $200 billion to the deficit in order to spare doctors from a big reduction in Medicare payments.
The measure passed Thursday on a near party-line vote of 243 to 183. Republicans called it a political payoff to the American Medical Association for endorsing House Democrats’ larger health overhaul bill, something Democrats denied.

So no government controls on what doctors get paid. For now. But once the government is fully in control of health care with all Americans either being on a government-backed “public option” or “health care co-op” or a government-approved plan bought through a government health care exchange? Well, what stops the government from coming back in a year or two and forcing all of the plans available to reimburse doctors at lower rates?
Not a damn thing. Because there will be no free market for health care in America. Only a government-run market. And the politicians will do what politicians do in other countries with government health care. They’ll try to keep prices low by forcing doctors to accept less and capping prices for things like prescription drugs.
What happens when you squeeze doctors and force them to take less for their services? Instead of the best and the brightest coming to America to practice medicine they’ll go elsewhere. And what happens when we squeeze drug companies? Well, suddenly investing 15 years and $1 billion in R&D to bring a new wonder drug to market doesn’t look like such a deal any more.