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Unaccountable Care Organizations Aug 5, 2013 By Richard Amerling, MD The release of preliminary performance data of 32 Accountable Care Organization Pioneers has largely been spun by the media into a great success story. But […]
In a critique of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) last October I wrote: “Now comes news that three more of the original groups will jump ship, leaving only 19 of the original 32 still on board. A nearly 50 percent attrition rate should be seen as a death knell for the concept, as these were likely the best of the best, and the inducements most generous. Reasonable people would head back to the drawing board. But we are dealing with government bureaucrats, health policy wonks, and administrators. They will damn the torpedoes and push on at flank speed.”
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key piece of the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) “reform” plan, are failing because they must fail. ACOs are based on faulty assumptions, poor economics, and junk science. They would not exist in a truly free market, and are best viewed as a product of government central planners and crony capitalism.
By Richard Amerling, MD, In his latest book Ameritopia, Mark Levin discusses utopian “masterminds” who make promises of “heaven on earth” that are never possible to deliver. Attempting to create utopia leads to disruptions in […]
By Alieta Eck, MD, President, AAPS Proponents of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) claim that doctors in the US spend four times more, interacting with the many health plans, than Canadian physicians spend interacting with […]
By Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, M.D., I remember coming into the Intensive Care Unit for a day (that is, about 30 hours) on call during my residency. The first thing I saw was the red Crash […]
Last year President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as ObamaCare, amongst a flurry of protests and concerns about the burdensome costs and impossibilities of complying with the regulations. […]
By: Alieta Eck, MD, Part of the scheme of ObamaCare is to set up Accountable Care Organizations. In New Jersey, they are being set up for the Medicaid population. As is typical of all “innovative” […]
By: Alieta Eck, MD, Part of the scheme of ObamaCare is to set up Accountable Care Organizations. In New Jersey, they are being set up for the Medicaid population. As is typical of all “innovative” […]
