What Does Health Care Ruling Mean For Providers?
KELLEY MOHR; By KELLEY MOHR |
What the ruling means for
"We're going to provide health care no matter who you are if you come in our doors, whether you can pay or not pay," Snyder said. "Our focus has been on appropriate care in an appropriate setting at the appropriate time for appropriate cost. We'll continue to do that."
"Now that the decision over the constitutionality of this legislation has been rendered, it still begs the bigger question,"
"The reality is we have to drive costs out of the system, and when we look at the overall costs and what the government spends, it is unsustainable. It has to be reformed," DeBord said.
Dr.
"We know something needs to be done, and now it is at our doorstep," Tizzano said.
In order to drive down costs and improve the quality of the care provided, DeBord said he believes it will force providers to look at ways to be more efficient and to collaborate on best practices.
About 50 percent of health care costs are related to chronic diseases, Tizzano said. "This is caused by lifestyle choices. The focus needs to be on us to get healthier."
While traditionally the model has been when people become ill they seek out a physician to help solve the problem, going forward, it should be on preventing people from getting ill, Tizzano said.
"Overall, we have to look at ways that we've been doing things and we have to be ready to change quickly and some of the changes could be substantive," said Snyder, noting that at Pomerene they'll keep doing what they're doing "with renewed energy and focus on these."
Tizzano said for years the
One result of the individual mandate being declared constitutional will be a dramatic increase of the number of insured people in the community.
"Those who don't have (insurance) now will have it by 2015, assuming they don't take the penalty," said Snyder, noting that in
"We don't have a surplus of primary care physicians (in the community) ... This is something we will have to look at -- what's the impact on that primary care: Will they have physicians or will they use the (
Congressmen
Renacci and Gibbs said there are some good provisions in the law, but they would rather start with a clean slate and have a public airing of all of the provisions.
Some of the parts Gibbs likes include allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance policies until age 26, not letting insurance companies drop someone and establishing group risk pools at the state level. He is also a strong supporter of the Health Savings Account. He would like to see more personal responsibility, and tort reform and ability for people to purchase health insurance across state lines to increase competition.
State Sen.
The health care reform law enacts many changes, said Snyder, some of which went into effect immediately and some that won't be implemented until 2014. Despite a definitive ruling of constitutionality, there are still many parts of the law that are yet to be determined, including what lawmakers and Gov.
As Obhof sees it, Ohioans do not like the individual mandate. He sees the health care reform law as part of the reason Republicans made gains at the polls in 2010. In 2011,
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