Nueterra Healthcare has always been committed to encouraging innovation in health care. For more than a decade we have partnered with physicians, hospitals and health systems to expand choices for patients and opportunities for investors. By relying on market forces, Nueterra has created a model that improves quality and keeps costs in line.
Yet today, Congress is in the process of saddling our country with a government-controlled health care “plan” that will completely distort America’s free-market values. While this is still in a fluid state, we can safely expect that the Democratic-controlled Congress will try to pass some sort of bill that creates an entirely new bureaucracy.
In the legislation being proposed in the House of Representatives there are many rules that dictate the value of a physician’s time and how much physicians will be paid. All doctors would be paid the same, with the government setting value and controlling productivity. How will that not breed mediocrity?
Many clauses of the bill would prohibit hospital ownership and investment by physicians and others, thus restricting economic growth. Why would we restrict growth in any economic endeavor? How can new models come into being?
This country was built on innovation by people who were free to pursue new ideas at their own risk. If the government had restricted the computer industry to mainframes, we would never have the personal computers that have changed all our lives. If the government had restricted the telecommunications industry we would still be using operators and cell phones would be merely a dream. If the government had restricted the publishing industry, we would never have seen the copy machine.
But now the government wants to prohibit the growth of hospitals. What’s more, language throughout the bill allows for more government bureaucracy that will regulate treatments and who gets them, thus inhibiting innovation. The thought of stifling innovation and private investment in health care is difficult to imagine.
We still have the right to contact our Congressmen and Senators. Please do so immediately (link to NHC public affairs page) and express your opinion.
Nueterra Healthcare has always been committed to encouraging innovation in health care. For more than a decade we have partnered with physicians, hospitals and health systems to expand choices for patients and opportunities for investors. By relying on market forces, Nueterra has created a model that improves quality and keeps costs in line.
Yet today, Congress is in the process of saddling our country with a government-controlled health care “plan” that will completely distort America’s free-market values. While this is still in a fluid state, we can safely expect that the Democratic-controlled Congress will try to pass some sort of bill that creates an entirely new bureaucracy.
In the legislation being proposed in the House of Representatives there are many rules that dictate the value of a physician’s time and how much physicians will be paid. All doctors would be paid the same, with the government setting value and controlling productivity. How will that not breed mediocrity?
Many clauses of the bill would prohibit hospital ownership and investment by physicians and others, thus restricting economic growth. Why would we restrict growth in any economic endeavor? How can new models come into being?
This country was built on innovation by people who were free to pursue new ideas at their own risk. If the government had restricted the computer industry to mainframes, we would never have the personal computers that have changed all our lives. If the government had restricted the telecommunications industry we would still be using operators and cell phones would be merely a dream. If the government had restricted the publishing industry, we would never have seen the copy machine.
But now the government wants to prohibit the growth of hospitals. What’s more, language throughout the bill allows for more government bureaucracy that will regulate treatments and who gets them, thus inhibiting innovation. The thought of stifling innovation and private investment in health care is difficult to imagine.
We still have the right to contact our Congressmen and Senators. Please do so immediately and express your opinion. Visit our Public Affairs page for more information.
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