Posted on 11/21/2013 4:00:52 AM PST by markomalley
The good news is that I am getting out of medicine in 405 days.
Medicaid is actually the Obama Healthcare plan. Medicaid is, or soon will be, pure single payer socialized medicine.
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They will go underground and take cash.
Black market medicine: a new growth industry.
Hey, but if we have a right to health care, that means doctors have to be our slaves.
assuming that there is a continuum
I believe Hillarycare also had provisions for fining (or worse) patients as well as Doctors for going outside of their zones.
Those places have for several years been busily changing their tax and visa rules in order to attract American doctors to set up off shore clinics and practices.
The stupid is strong with this one.
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Until, of course, the productive class is all gone. Then the Ruling Class squeezes the Serf Class and shrinks as production supports fewer and fewer Rulers and apparatchiks. The internecine back knifing among the rulers ramps up as the general famine is approached.
And if they quit entirely, draft them and force them to work for minimum wage.
Amazing that nothing said about the patient. Squeeze Doctors and you squeeze their patients. To suggest you turn a Doctor’s diagnosis over to nurses is just stupid. To turn medical care diagnosis over to a government bureaucracy like the IRS is the work of imbeciles!
If you really care about overpaid professionals why not start on lawyers? Frankly I think that lawyers are obscenely overpaid! And news reporters? How much do they get paid to lie?
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/29/dan-rather-loses-70-million-case-against-cbs/
“Hay, can we do this to actors, singers, and athletes?”
I’d like to see a law enacting requiring that any restriction placed on the potential income of doctors be equally applied to all lawyers. Require lawyers to accept government-mandated payments that won’t cover their operating expenses.
That would put a stop to all this in a hurry.
Doctor pay is already squeezed. They write off thousands of dollars every month.
Marxists sure do like to punish people for dissent.
How about squeezing payments to college and university professors? How about reducing their paid sabbaticals which are once every 5 years?
How about proposing a “socialized medicine tax” on liberals only? That is, if you want socialized medicine, you have to pay full price to get it. No insurance, no government support. Some of the big advantages:
1) The wealthy advocates of socialized medicine, like Bill Gates and George Soros, are more than able to pay $300 for an aspirin, $1,000 for a band-aid, and $300,000 to have a wart frozen off with liquid nitrogen. So that’s what they should pay, even if they get medical care in another country. Likewise, they should be prohibited from having any health insurance.
2) Every registered Democrat has to be on Obamacare, which is paid for exclusively by a tax on them. No private insurance or government funding for them. Their medical care is not subsidized by anyone else, but it mandatory for them. If they don’t pay, their wages are garnished, their savings and investments are looted, and their property sold off. They wanted it, they get it.
Here's a joke from the Brezhnev years - and we are still in Lenin circa 1916 time!:
"Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev are all travelling together in a railway carriage. Unexpectedly the train stops. Lenin suggests: "Perhaps, we should call a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants fix the problem." Stalin puts his head out of the window and shouts, "If the train does not start moving, the driver will be executed!" But the train doesn't start moving. Khrushchev then shouts, "Let's take the rails behind the train and use them to construct the tracks in the front". But it still doesn't move. Brezhnev then says, "Comrades, Comrades, let's draw the curtains, turn on the gramophone and pretend we're moving!"
Increasingly, health care can be provided remotely. Video exams, remote testing & evaluation, doctor consultations can all be done from outside the USA. Medical R&D need not occur on US soil.
Decades ago, if you wanted a VW Van, it was cheaper to buy it in Germany & ship it to the USA, while enjoying a nice vacation, than it was to buy that same VW Van in the USA.
Obamacare could be so expensive & so bad that elective or non-urgent surgery becomes cheaper & safer in Martinique, plus you & the family get a nice recuperation/vacation on a tropical island.
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