Posted on 03/15/2010 10:47:34 AM PDT by jazminerose
From Lucianne:
As a practicing physician, I have major concerns with the health care bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill & am shocked by the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate & ration patient care is dangerous & certainly not helpful in designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed. I ask you respectfully & as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country & our fellow citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at joytiz.com ...
Everything about Nobama scares me.
This is the equivalent of giving your rights and liberties a lobotomy.
Where are the doctors standing up publicly opposing this?
Where are the other medical professionals? The hospitals, etc.?
Where are the Harry and Louise commercials?
Where are the Republican ads?
Why is the Tea Party the ONLY visible opposition to this monstrosity? This bill will alter this nation, possibly irrevocably, where are the voices??
“Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our health care system...”
I wish people would qualify gratuitous concessions like this.
We have an excellent health-care system. What is being debated right now is not “health-care reform.” It has nothing to do with health. It has nothing to do with care. And it has nothing to do with reform.
It is the iron fist of socialist medicine being clamped around our necks.
What needs to be changed? We need more competition, more customized insurance packages (the ability to purchase ONLY insurance for catastrophic events), and TORT REFORM.
These are changes or improvements, not “fixes” which implies something is broken. Over 75% of Americans are happy with their health insurance, just as I am. I would sure like saving some money by not having to chip in for the contraception or fertility meds for others in the office. And I’d really like saving money by not paying lying, scumbag, ambulance-chasing lawyers for their ridiculous lawsuits, each win, of course, being paid out BY INSURANCE COMPANIES who recoup their losses by raising everyone’s rates (the ultimate redistribution of money while the scumbags scrape their “obscene profits” off the top).
Well, as a nurse in Arizona I’m not too surprised. We have visitors every year that come down from Canada and every year we get some of these people as patients who are surprised to find out that their Canadian Socialized Medicine program will not pay for their health care procedures.
Example: Other day I had a Canadian patient who thought on his vacation here in Arizona he was having a heart attack. Turns out he likely had a pulmonary embolism (very life threatening).
Canada did not want to pay for the Ct of the chest to find out if he had this, although his D-Dimer was over 4000, (the lab that indicated he likely did), besides his shortness of breath and his chest pain.
Another woman came down last year and was to be here several months, had pain in the breast. We did an exam and discovered she had a breast tumor that was positive for cancer and was evidently in a later stage, been growing rapidly.
Canada denied payment for an operation to remove the tumor. They said she had to return home to be re-evaluated by a Canadian doctor and to have to reconsider if the operation was warranted. Meanwhile, tumor growing like a nice healthy cancer does, fast.
Oh, almost forgot. Example of Mexicans who have socialized medicine, leaving Mexico in droves to come here for our much better system of health care...now on the chopping block of course.
I don’t want to see the gov involved in this, but frankly, for most of the things listed on that website, you can substitute “the government will” for “the insurance will” and unless you work for a company that offers multiple options for health insurance, the end result is the same. The private health industry, which has been surprisingly quiet on this, should have jumped out in front of the gov with reform ideas. The fact that they haven’t says either they agree with the gov approach overall or they have no better ideas to offer. I guess in the end we follow the money on this...
". it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."
Gadzooks!
Sounds rather like Pope Pius X in his encyclical wherein he states that the Tridentine Mass shall remain in perpetuity.
As many of you know this was overruled by Vatican II.
Pius X was correct. Reid sounds like he's inciting a riot!
He is having way too much fun getting ready to SHAFT the young and stupid Americans who voted for him.
Get ready you MORONS, you will be PAYING for many years to come.
Enjoy!!!
And all the lefties from Britain and Canada are on message boards posting sarcastic statements like “Yeah, we have socialized medicine and we are all dying in the streets!!” The question is, what procedure may have been necessary that they couldn’t get? Or have they been lucky enough to not to have needed one yet?
Here in the CA desert, we get a slew of Snowbirds from Canada every winter as well—lots of them use their time here to get medical treatment.
Many are pleasantly surprised to find out how quickly they can get doctor appointments. One guy needed hip replacement & came here & was amazed that he was able to see a doctor within a day or 2 of calling, then to a specialist shortly thereafter with surgery scheduled within the week.
Of course, paying cash enabled him to negotiate the tab down to 1/3 of the regular price.
Nobody ever talks about hospitals being willing to negotiate.
I remember propaganda about Lenin’s intelligence and how his brain was larger than others’. Then when he died they took his brain out to examine it. The hemispheres were almost smooth. It belonged in the jar marked “Abby Normal”.
“One guy needed hip replacement & came here & was amazed that he was able to see a doctor within a day or 2 of calling, then to a specialist shortly thereafter with surgery scheduled within the week.”
That’s amazing. I’ve never seen anyone get specialists appointments that quickly.
“Nobody ever talks about hospitals being willing to negotiate.”
I also have not encountered this, but it may be one has to engage them on it. If someone just walks in without insurance, they will not offer lower just because you only have cash.
Coachella Valley depends on retirees & Snowbirds so we’re set up to provide medical services.
At least for now.
At the risk of being accused of cultural insensitivity, the Canadians who come here like to bargain over everything.
It’s as if our team has locked itself in the clubhouse while the other team steals everything including the Constitutional requirements under which we are governed.
ah...well it is good that we live in a nation than is able to provide such services, no doubt.
Well, we will find out how this thing works AFTER they pass it. Thanks, Nazi Pelousy. I recently had to go in for some tests, high cholesterol, this and that. Nuclear stress test, etc. I was talking to my uber-lib boss about it (she asked) and she said, “Health care isn’t what it used to be, is it?” My expression must have spoken volumes, but I said, “What the hell are you talking about? I got a doctor appointment immediately and got the stress test done just a couple of weeks after.”
They are flippin’ delusional and buying into all of the propaganda.
I’m getting ready to load in Cirque du Soliel this afternoon. They are French Canadian and they all run around with these stupid little hardhats on when they’re setting up and tearing down the show. Some co-workers questioned why and I thought it had something to do with their socialized medicine.
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