Last visit to Vancouver Canada I met a lady who was severly gimped up with a bad knee. She had been waiting 6 month for simple orthoscopic surgery (an outpatient procedure) and had just recieved a notice that it would be at least 4 more months before she could be operated on.
As a 72 year old with some health problems, I will fight Socialized Medicine like the plague!! You should too!
I have had a wonderful family doctor for 35 years. Once I said to him that he had a pretty hard job, and he said that the only thing he doesn’t like is the two hours or so of paperwork he has to do every evening after seeing patients all day long. He is over 60, and I am certain, given what he said about the paperwork, that if Obama makes healthcare any more onerous for physicans than it already is, he will retire. That’s what’s going to happen to a WHOLE LOT of physicians in this country. Wait and see.
Without question, health care in America will look violently different in 24 to 36 months. Elections have consequences, and this will be a very painful consequence.
What will be more interesting is the fate of private insurance. Many on the left will be pushing to make private insurance illegal. My guess is the American people won’t bite. But eventually, you’ll end up with a much more “classist” health care system. One in which a sizable percentage of Americans will be stuck with single-payor, government managed and rationed health care. For the wealthier Americans, or people that work in jobs that are highly skilled (and thus highly compensated) probably won’t find much difference in their coverage of tomorrow vs their coverage of today.
If we can’t afford Medicare, how will we pay for an expanded government system?
It’s time to find out for sure if the AARP is a DNC front organization (as I strongly suspect) or will they show a willingness to really pressure these people to provide real solutions, including privatization.
Simple rule: I want whatever Federal Health Insurance Plan Daschle has for himself and his family. Or any other democrat in power.
You can safely bet that the democrats’ personal health insurance bears absolutely no relationship to the third world coverage Daschle has planned for us peons.
Another safe bet: The media will put massive lipstick on Daschle’s pet pig, when the time comes to fake the news.
| Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) | Catholic politician who votes for abortion in contradiction to Church teachings. One of American Life League's "Deadly Dozen." |
Another socialist domino in the march to 0bama’a Utopia.
Put it up there with the domestic security service, trillion dollar deficits, sham foreign policy of appeasement and accommodation, marginalization of the Bill of Rights, and sworn allegiance to the supremacy of the UN.
It ain’t your Mother’s country anymore, Duckie...
Time to refresh the tree of Liberty, IMO.
I’m curious, where in the Constitution does it say the Fed govt has the power to do this?
Physicians will simply hang up there stethoscopes and take retirement, living off their investments and refusing to answer questions concerning health in any way. Medical students will drop out of the additianal training need to be qualified by medical boards, going to work as funds management specialists to pay off their accrued tuition bills they have incurred up to that point. The net effect is to drive the vast majority of medical practitioners out of the profession in far less than a generation.
It has already become almost criminal to practice medicine here in this country, and without adequate rewards, depending on someone to answer “the call” to become a doctor is a rather slender hope to maintain the ranks of doctors and other medical practitioners.
If you have not become sufficiently conversant with matters of your own health maintenence by the age of forty, you are either dead, or soon will be.
Their progams will cripple everything.
I’ve already experienced what we can expect from Obama/Daschle care. My insurance company has refused to pay for a legend high blood medication I had used for years with excellent control of my blood pressure. I was told that I should try a a generic medication of the same drug class, but not the same medication. My doctor and I have been jockeying dosages and added diuretics for nearly two years without getting the same blood pressure control I had before. I am also experiencing some nasty side effects, yet my insurance company insists that this generic drug is an effective treatment. Welcome to Obama/Daschle care.
This is going to be a common refrain, so buckle up people.