The Obama administration Medicare actuary Richard Foster recently released a report that estimates healthcare costs will grow past the $4.7 trillion for ObamaCare by 2019. That caused Mr. Foster to state that he expects 15% of our hospitals to be driven into a budget deficit as a result, thus jeopardizing access to care for Medicare beneficiaries. Couple this with the recent statement by Dr. Donald Berwick, the White House’s nominee for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that the British National Health Services has developed a very good and very disciplined scientifically grounded policy for evaluation and treatment which we ought to learn from.

Dr. Berwick went on to say and I quote, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration Healthcare. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. Right now we do it blindly.” So now after the passage of Obama Care the administration’s point men are coming out of the woodwork saying publicly what we all knew before this monster was passed. There will be a shortage of doctors and hospitals as providers leave their practices rather than deal with ObamaCare and rising healthcare costs in a government run healthcare program. This will then bring about the rationing of healthcare in this country. Isn’t ObamaCare grand?