Obamacare FalloutStephen Lendman It rations healthcare. Its unaffordable. It leaves millions uninsured. It leaves millions more underinsured. It compromises privacy. A little noticed disclaimer states: Medical privacy rights are violated. NSA and other US spy agencies will have full access to Americans medical history. They have lots more than that. More information below. On October 24, Infowars headlined CIA-Funded Software Company Manages Private Data for Healthcare.gov, saying: In-Q-Tel is a CIA venture capital firm. Its heavily invested into Socrata. (Its a) software company (providing) data collection and management for Healthcare.gov and Medicare.gov. It announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT). Both entities will work together to further develop Socratas data consumerization platform for internal business analysts in data-rich organizations. Socrata will work with NSA, CIA and other US spy agencies. Theyll do so to transform raw data into whats more easily used. US spy agencies get it all. They can use it any way they wish. Obamacare is more than ripoff healthcare. It violates core constitutional rights. It exploits unprincipally. It does so secretly. It does more harm than good. On October 24, Acting Man.com headlined Obamacare Side Effect Doctors Abandon the Health Care Insurance System Altogether, saying: Many apparently had enough. Theyre opting out. Theyre fed up with bureaucratic red tape. Obamacare makes it worse than ever. Theyre going cash only. Theyre able to spend more time with patients. They dont need extra staff help dealing with increasing amounts of paperwork. Doing so requires treating more patients to cover costs. It results in less time spent on proper care. Doug Nunamaker is a family physician. The paperwork, the hassles, it just got (too) overwhelming, he said. We knew we had to find a better way to practice, he added. He charges flat monthly fees. Its the equivalent of cheap insurance. For children, its $10. For adults up to age 44, its $50. Seniors pay $100. He advises patients to carry high-deductible insurance coverage. Its needed in case emergencies, serious illness or expensive treatments. His patient list numbers 400 600. Before it was 2,500 4,000. He needed volume to cover expenses. Hes comfortable with more time for treatment. My professional life is better than expected, he said. My family life and personal time are better. This is everything I wanted out of family medicine. Small numbers of doctors operate this way. Others join them annually. American Academy of Family Physicians data show 4% did so in 2012. In 2010, it was 3%. A 2013 Medscape survey found 6% of physicians practicing this way. Burdensome Obamacare mandates suggest increasing numbers opting out ahead. They want less bureaucracy. They want more time for patients. They dont want Washington or predatory insurers telling them how to practice. They want doctors and patients alone deciding. At the same time, healthcare advocates raise concerns. Cash only medicine perhaps will end up excluding many less well off patients. Everyone should have equal access. Universal single-payer alone provides it. Bureaucratic red tape is eliminated. Insurers dont provide healthcare. Doctors do. Medicares original design worked as intended. Enrolling was simple. It still is. Enormous savings are achieved. Universal coverage assures comprehensive affordable care. Predatory middlemen are excluded. Doing so saves $400 billion or more annually. Using it for care instead of profits covers everyone. Marketplace medicine prioritizes profits. It does so at the expense of equitable treatment. It lets private insurers game the system. It lets them rip off enrollees freely. Commodified healthcare falls short. It has no place in free societies. Obamacare makes it less equitable than ever. Powerful interests blocked earlier US healthcare reform efforts. In 1917, 15 states introduced health insurance coverage for all legislation. Eight others established commissions to study doing so. Proposals were weak and confusing. They were dead on arrival. In the 1930 and 1940s, government-sponsored health insurance resurfaced. The issue remained contentious. Industry giants again blocked change. Post-war, employer-provided coverage increased. Retirees, the disabled, unemployed, and others were uninsured. Years of debate followed. Medicare and Medicaid resulted. In 1965, amendments to Titles XVIII and XIX respectively of the 1935 Social Security Act established them. Efforts to cover everyone failed. Prospects today are far dimmer than then. Obamacare eliminates the possibility. Healthcare giants writing the law designed it that way. On June 28, 2012, a Physicians for National Health Program press release said: Convoluted arguments upheld ACAs controversial individual mandate provision. Americans have no say. Theyre required to buy coverage from private insurers. They have to whether or not they want it. Theyre cheated. They get much less than they pay for. Independent experts believe Americas least advantaged at left in no-mans land. Federal subsidies are woefully inadequate. Theyll get inadequate coverage at best. Theyll be denied expensive treatments if needed. Imagine the worlds richest country mandating it. Everyone can get whatever they want based on the ability to pay. Inability means too bad, out of luck. Ninety-year old Dr. Quentin Young is a longtime Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP) leading member. His newly released autobiography is titled Everybody In, Nobody Out: Memoirs of a Rebel Without a Pause. Had I been in Congress, I would have unequivocally voted against Obamacare, he said. Its a bad bill. Worse or better is immaterial, he stressed. The health system isnt working in this country fiscally, medically, socially, morally. PNHP examined Obamacare mandate by mandate. Its nightmarish in complexity. Its fundamentally inequitable. To this day, said Young, much to the chagrin of many of our friends who wanted reform, I remain adamant in my rejection of Obamacare. Young and other single-payer advocates deplore private insurers. They game the system for profits. They deny or delay expensive treatments. They overcharge, underinsure, and exploit people unfairly. Obama could have done things different, said Young. He could have stuck to all the virtues of single payer. He acted polar opposite. He sold out the way he did to Wall Street. US consumers are stuck with what demands rejection. Millions will learn how much to their chagrin. Young expects a dirty fight ahead to change things. Im sure the battle over health care reform isnt going away, he said. Odds against winning today perhaps are greater than ever. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War.Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/ 