These people are dangerous.
Fascist wet dreams aside, it’s hard to force a bankrupt medical practice to stay in operation.
They should go for broke. Force doctors to see anyone and everyone without pay. Assign soldiers to each doctor and shoot if they slow down. Problem solved.
So if I’m a doctor in Virginia, I’m looking for property in... Tennessee? North Carolina? Kentucky?
“Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients:”
Absolutely! We have had freedom and rights guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights for too damn long! It’s time to throw out those archaic documents and give in to the socialism that the demonrat rat party hungers for. Throw off your freedom and don the yoke of servitude to Father government, rejoice in having to never make a decision for yourself again, leave it all to the village idiots.
All their doctors will be in some other state.
Why don’t these physicians get together, buy a new or used cruise ship and station it XXX miles offshore and see patients there?
Maybe it would be best to keep our powder dry for awhile, let this communist concept gain more RAT acceptance on the national level in 2014, then come in with guns blazing to differentiate the two parties with an issue with real substance!
Would the low information voter understand the concept??
Why don’t they treat lawyers the same way they treat doctors? Oh, they ARE the lawyers.
Yes. They will force md’s to accept these patients, or it is off to the re-education camp with them...
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865.
Even if slavery were legal there is no practical way to do this. There is already a significant shortage of physicians, particularly in the primary care specialties. Wishing it away won't make it go away. There are things the libs can and should do, but they will take 20 years, and they haven't even discovered that this is a huge problem.
What can they do? Place bounties on the heads of retired physicians, and send posses to Florida to bring them back in chains, à la Dred Scott? Drag elderly demented physicians out of their nursing home beds and force them to treat patients?
Totalitarians like the democrats won’t accept anything less than absolute obedience to the state.
That’s one solution to recruiting doctors in neighboring states. We are getting out of state (and Canadian) doctors moving to Texas every day. Go for it you wild and crazy Virginia Progressives.
It could force them to get outta Dodge.
That’s the first step, but multiple steps are needed
1) Require they accept medicare
2) Don’t allow retirement
3) Don’t allow moving out of state
4,5,6,...) I’m sure they’ll need more
“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
—Ayn Rand, *Atlas Shrugged*
Since MD’s are licensed by the state rather than the federal government could put such a restriction on their right to practice. Most licensed professions have the legal right to place all kinds of restrictions on those professions.
However, doing so would motivate many of those MD’s to relocate to a friendlier state creating a shortage of physicians in the over regulating state and a surplus in free states. Since the wealthier can travel anywhere for health care, this policy would hurt the poor more than help them.
“Would the last doctor to exit the state of Virginia, please turn out out the lights?”
At a local ER...patient talking to the ER doctor...
“Where did you get your training, Doc?”
“Well sir, I’m not actually a doctor. But I was a vet’s assistant for 5 years.”
This idea is such a joke. I know that as a physician there are many of ways of not treating a patient. The risks of any treatment can be overemphasized, you can treat the patient conservatively and then give the patient a referral for a second opinion, you can order a test or procedure and have the patient schedule it and get the insurance approval themselves.
Or, you can be really honest with the patient and tell them, look, I’m losing money by seeing you, do you really want me to take care of you under these conditions? How many people actually want to receive care from someone that has no incentive to provide the care?
In WW2, the Nazis used a lot of slave labor for factory work. There were also quite a few unexploded bombs that came out of those slave labor factories.