Posted on 07/02/2012 4:55:44 AM PDT by Trafalgar123
The day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ObamaCare, a friend called me. He's an extremely dedicated, much-loved surgeon, and he was frustrated and livid in equal measure.
"I've actually had a lot of experience working in all different types of environments," he began. "I've worked in a government-run socialized medical care system, and I saw the waste and inefficiency.
"The longer people worked in that system, the less work they wanted to do, because the more you wanted to do, the more they dumped on you. So after a while you stop doing it, because they're not paying you to do more. Why should you do a difficult case, a difficult surgery that will take you hours and hours to do?
"You might start out wanting to do it, but after a while, you just run out of energy, because there's no incentive. You'd have to be a superhuman being to continue to work in that system and not be worn down by it.
"Because nobody wanted to work, it would take an hour to turn over the surgical room. In my private practice now, it takes ten minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wish the solution was simply voting. They’ve rigged the game. 80% of the incumbents will win reelection and 10 million bureaucrats will still have their jobs after the election.
Good article.
As intended. The Left is a culture of death and it is their desire (their master’s desire) that life be made cheap and expendable. The goal is for life to have no value and for people to have no incentive to preserve or create it.
Welcome to the USSA, comrades.
In the old USSR, a sign seen everywhere was “closed for repairs.” When something breaks, why fix it? You won’t be paid any more if you work or don’t work.
The USSR is the future of the USA on this course. The USSA.
Unless you are in the higher political class. That seems to be a cushy position in communist systems. Of course you have to be heartless and think of yourself before your country to serve in such a position.
The left nuts imagine themselves obviously being in the upper political class. Why? Because they are so much smarter than the rest of us and if we would only follow their lead, utopia will surely come to pass.
Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed comes to mind.
They too, will see fewer medical innovations. Disease states evolve and progress, but medical treatments, devices, and potent pharmaceuticals will eventually be stunted.
With luck, the elites might discover their fault someday. Some of them might wish to return to a freer market, with less restrictions, more incentives for improving healthcare, and more available and affordable medicines. Sadly by then, it will be too late.
Ol’ Sam had it right. I despise the parasitic class.
We are just about even now aren’t we? What is it, 46% or so live off of the government somehow? Either in wages or direct support as in being on welfare.
For every one of us that is working in the private sector there is someone who is living off of what you make. Don’t you feel good about all the help you are giving other people.
No enterprise, public or private, can continue very long with half the employees not producing something of value.
Of course, some in large companies would argue that 80% of the work gets done by 20% of the people and sometimes they wouldn’t be far from wrong.
A huge flock of docs will retire earlier than expected. They are at the age where they can not afford to subsidize communism and they are Americans who will not be enslaved by bureaucrats.
If, by the grace of God, we are able to overturn Obamacare, the 80 percent of those docs who were betrayed by the AMA academics, need to take out the trash. They need to make a list and render retribution. End their careers.
I'm betting that there will less of an influx of highly intelligent doctors to replace them. My grand nephew, a man of incredible intelligence, saw this coming as an undergraduate and decided to not become a physician. Today, he is on the cusp of receiving a PhD in materials engineering, all expenses paid by a major state university. He's that gifted.
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