Vladeck: SCOTUS is About to Kill People
If the whole law goes down, the death rate in the United States will go up beginning in 2014. Because we know that the number of uninsured people will not go down, it will go up, and that growth in the number of uninsured people increases the number of people who die, so it’s pretty straightforward as far as I can tell. We’ll also have enormous chaos in the delivery system, but how that will play out exactly is hard to know.
Bruce Vladeck interview with Marilyn Serafini. You just can’t make this stuff up.
“I think that we have a very profound challenge as a democratic society in the growing disjunction between what’s actually occurring in the world and what the public seems to believe.”
That’s only because people like Mr. Vladeck live in a fantasy world where reason and logic don’t exist, while the public at large, I believe, is starting to use them a bit more in makin political decisions.
What’s really disgusting is that government is filled with people like Mr. Vladeck who believe that they have the power to make ‘ex cathedra’ statements, and that public opinion shouldn’t have any affect on the glorious work that they and their comrades are doing.
He also said this:
“I don’t know how it would do that. We’d save a fortune by gutting Medicaid, so in terms of the overall federal budget it frees up more money.”
I’m not a doctor, but isn’t the death rate 100%?
With or without Obamacare, everyone dies. As heart disease deaths go down, cancer deaths necessarily increase because it is a zero-sum game at that point, no?
Whether people die sooner is the question, I guess.
What a joke.
I get tired of hearing this type of overly-dramatic exaggeration. People have free will. Many of those that (theoretically) would die would have (theoretically) died anyway. Some People exhibit health-seeking behavior, while others avoid the doctor. Many exhibit poor lifestyle choices. Some of those who lead risky lifestyles – not unexpectedly – don’t care much about health coverage designed to pay for medical care. In many cases, the uninsured forgoing health coverage is an example of poor lifestyle habits. At the same time, some uninsured individuals lead healthy lifestyles and will not die. Health coverage is correlated, but not the cause of behaviors that result in poor health. Thus it is correlated, but not the cause of premature, preventable death.
Obamacare was signed in March 2010. Mr. Vladek asserts that, if it’s defeated, the mortality rate will go up dramatically in 2014.
This suggests that the mortality rate has improved significantly since March 2010. Or, if not already, it will by December 2013. I haven’t seen any sign of it.
And if Obamacare is defeated by the Supreme Court in June 2012, or the next President and Congress in January 2013, why would the mortality rate take until January 2014 to decline?
It is embarassing for Kaiser Health News to have published this interview. It belongs on Huffington Post.
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