This is why Obama Sucks!

[sheshe2]

Yes my thread title was sarcasm~



However my OP is not~

NYT: A Health Care Success Story


IT may have been the most influential magazine article of the past decade. In June of 2009, the doctor and writer Atul Gawande published a piece in The New Yorker called “The Cost Conundrum,” which examined why the small border city of McAllen, Tex., was the most expensive place for health care in the United States. The article became mandatory reading in the White House. President Obama convened an Oval Office meeting to discuss its key finding that the high cost of health care in the country was directly tied to a system that rewarded the overuse of care. Five years later, the situation has changed. Where McAllen once illustrated the problem of American health care, the city is now showing us how the problem can be solved, largely because of the Affordable Care Act that Mr. Obama signed into law in 2010.

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The problem was that doctors in McAllen were responding to reimbursement incentives in the American health care system that rewarded activity rather than value. The more procedures and visits a doctor billed, the more he got paid. The Affordable Care Act was designed to change that. One of its provisions created the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which rewards doctors for keeping their patients healthy. Participation in the program requires primary care doctors to create networks, called accountable care organizations, or A.C.O.s, to better coordinate patient care. These networks are reimbursed for delivering high-quality care below a baseline of historical Medicare costs. In 2012, doctors in McAllen formed the Rio Grande Valley Accountable Care Organization Health Providers, and signed up for this experiment. The early results are in, and they are stunning: From April 2012 to the end of 2013, the Rio Grande Valley A.C.O. saved more than $20 million from its Medicare baseline. These changes didn’t just save money; they also improved patients’ health. From 2012 to 2013, the number of patients achieving control of their diabetes rose 11.8 percentage points. The number receiving vaccinations rose 12.2 percentage points.




More here:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/opinion/a-health-care-success-story.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0


http://theobamadiary.com/2014/09/29/mcallen-texas-saved-20m-on-healthcare-thanks-obamacare/

Thank you Mr President!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. First K n R!

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks Blanche!

Oh my, I think a poster or two may be upset that this was not a bash Obama post. Lol~Yup, I am indeed correct~

Love ya Blanche.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. it's important to value the progress....that helps give one's critique balance.

Of COURSE I wish he could have passed that jobs bill, I wish he could have kicked the lobbyists out of D.C., I wish he could kick the repuke asses in every state, every town board. I wish he could end corporate greed.

Unfortunately, in reality world, change comes slooooooowwwwwwww. Corporations provide the needs and luxuries for a mass of humanity that is so huge it could never be fully served by human-sized small businesses.

World trade, established systems, existing structures can NOT be dismantled at once......no one person can change it.

What progress IS possible is being sabotaged at every second by juggernauts beyond PBO's reach.

Add to that, the people on his steering teams are pukes who got in because of a variety of reasons--repuke propaganda which saturates the mass market, factory-farm media, and democrats not turning out.

Ugh...I should add more clarification, but right now, I just got sick of typing!!!! On my mobile!

[FarPoint]

2. Sarcasm or not....

It's not identified in the title....ultimately, poor taste.

[sheshe2]

5. Really?

Or were you just disappointed~

[FarPoint]

16. There ya go again...passive aggressive tone.

At least I am forthcoming. I'm fatigued of anti Obama jabber. I will address my concerns as they arise. I'm disappointed... In you.

[sheshe2]

17. Did you understand my post?

Did you read it?

I'm fatigued of anti Obama jabber. I will address my concerns as they arise. I'm disappointed... In you.

You are sick of the anti Obama jabber. Well ya! that is what my post was about. Sorry you did not get that.

I am a member and a Host of The Barack Obama Group. Read my journal or BOG posts. Some people know me here and know my support of this President. Some love me for it and others rake me over the coals for it. I have been called so many nasty things for supporting this President.

Dear goddess, the link was from the Obama Diary, ya I changed the title. The founder of TOD was run off DU for supporting this President.

I do not understand your problem with me.

[FarPoint]

33. Only by reading the content one can sense cautiously it may be more positive than introduced.

A title sets the tone...it is powerful....

Where I live, I can't even turn on my car radio for traffic reports without hearing Obama or Democratic hate....Heck, I go and pump gas at Speedway and they now have mini TV screens with Fox News updates!. So, forgive me for being most sensitive to OP titles starting off with being sick of Obama. We have more double agent trolls here at DU than registered voters in my county.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Everytime I hear or read a story of the results my heart leaps for joy.

I have been fortunate to have health insurance in my life but to know those around me is afforded insurance make me happy. I have thought over the years what if I did not have the insurance, well, there would have health problems which would not have been treated.

You did scare when I read the title. I thought WTH is wrong with she, you're forgiven, a post worth reading.

[sheshe2]

7. Sorry I scared you, Thinkingabout.

Yup, lol I did the title as a grabber. I wanted to see who would be disappointed...only one so far.

I have employer based insurance, yet never stopped supporting it for those that had none. I have a soon to be 27 year old relative. She is self employed and researched the heck out of her options before she decided. She knew for a fact that life can turn on a dime. Her sib two years ago nearly died in a fall, they had insurance. He got the best of the best treatment and rehab. Otherwise they would have been in extreme debt.

Thinkingabout~

[Stellar]

14. Whoa...scared me too!

I'm like...not by sheshe2 ?!!

Her sib two years ago nearly died in a fall, they had insurance.

But , he's doing fine today, I hope...

[sheshe2]

15. Yes he is doing so very well, so beautiful!

He is IMHO perfect. It took a lot of time, yet he is well. This was a few weeks before the 2012 election. His new wife brought him an absentee ballot. He was still in ICU. Yet he voted. Nothing was keeping him away from that, Stellar!

[Half-Century Man]

4. Correction...Sips.

He sips his tea in a smug satisfied way, at ease in the world which now has healthcare for millions on US citizens.

[Trajan]

8. I dislike the sycophants ...

Who attack dissenters within their own party ..

It isn't about Obama - It's about Liberal values, which Obama's extremist supporters tend to forget as they design their little strawmen ...

[riqster]

10. They have a different definition of "liberal ", methinks.

[sheshe2]

12. Do you ALSO dislike those that attack supporters of this President?

I dislike the sycophants ...Who attack dissenters within their own party ..

Seriously Trajan?

It isn't about Obama - It's about Liberal values, which Obama's extremist supporters tend to forget as they design their little strawmen ...

So please do explain. Please do. You say that dissenters are attacked and that it is not about Obama but it is about LIBERAL VALUES. Then you go on to attack Obama supporters who are also part of the liberal base.

You just wrapped yourself so tightly into a pretzel that you will be forever tangled.

Do you even read what you post?

[Marr]

21. +1, sycophants is right.

[Major Hogwash]

24. But, they may not be in our party.

The DU forum has the same problem as all of the "open-ended" comments sections at the end of every newspaper article on the internet.
You never know if the posters making the comments truly support the President and the ACA, or if they are against it because of the fact it was passed and signed in to law by President Obama.

As for being referred to as an "extremist supporter" for President Obama, that doesn't bother me one tiny little bit.
I would vote for him again if I could.

If had not have been for the 22nd amendment, which was ratified during the early 1950s, while the Republicans briefly had control of both Houses of Congress from 1947-1949, Obama could very well have run for a 3rd term as President.

And that, my friend, is the truth.

[Cha]

26. I "dislike" those who can't their point across without calling supporters of Obama "sychophants" or

"extremists". You really have no clue what you're talking about.. just throwing out venomous cheap pot shots.

[JoePhilly]

34. That's an irony deficiant post.

[riqster]

9. Kick!!!!

[Thespian2]

11. American Health Care

still in the clutches of insurance companies and big pharma. Out of pocket cost of MRI in Lake Worth, FL, $900 + an insurance payment.
Out of pocket cost of MRI in my province, $0. No insurance payment.

[progressoid]

35. $900 out of pocket?

That's a f*cking deal. I'm still paying off an MRI from 2013.

[Thespian2]

36. I understand.

My NC insurance, given to me upon retirement, would have paid 80% of the cost. Obviously, I waited until I returned home to Canada.

[LawDeeDah]

18. This alone will put him as the Best and most beloved President, ever.

Thank you for posting this Good News. This affects peoples lives and mental health, so many people are having it a little better than before and some a lot better than before.

I think of these people when I hear all the insults hurled toward the President, and I feel sorry for those people because nothing will be good enough for them. I know a few people like that in real life, always sad and angry and it's just too bad.

[sheshe2]

20. Welcome to DU LawDeeDah!

Good that you are here. We need your voice.

It is amazing news! From my link~

This is not an isolated case. Today, more than 5.3 million Medicare beneficiaries nationwide are served by more than 360 A.C.O.s, which have helped hold spending hundreds of millions of dollars below Medicare targets for this period. Many primary care physicians — who are responsible for directing the vast majority of health care costs — are forming A.C.O.s, and more private health plans are setting up these reimbursement structures as well.

[LawDeeDah]

23. Thanks. I have to wonder

how everyone that was involved in the billing frauds from the insurance companies to medical staff, got their minds changed about what their job really was besides grubbing more money. I imagine there are some hefty laws behind this.

[grahamhgreen]

19. How's he going to pay for his war?

[Major Hogwash]

22. This is a great article.

This thread probably would have dropped like a rock if you would have titled it "Obama's ACA is a huge health care success".

[sheshe2]

28. Ya~

I am learning~

Figured most that knew me would get it!

Thanks Major.

[Major Hogwash]

32. I love you, sheshe2.

I can't believe I said that out loud where even Skinner might see it, but what the hell.

[freshwest]

25. The 'rewards doctors for keeping their patients healthy' is Sanity.

[sheshe2]

29. It is indeed freshwest!

[Cha]

27. Mahalo for More Good News about Obamacare, she~

[sheshe2]

30. We have only just stared.

It gets better day by day, Cha.

[Cha]

31. Almost the anniversary

of the sign up date.