Posted on 03/03/2009 12:00:38 AM PST by Scanian
The largest generational cohort in American history, the Baby Boomers, will be the first Americans to be denied available effective life-saving treatments for reasons of cost. The seeds for this mass liquidation have already been planted.
Imagine that it is 2016, and you are a 65 year old boomer. You have been admitted to your local community hospital with malaise, fatigue, vomiting and cloudy mental status. You have had blood pressure problems and diabetes for a few years, and have just been diagnosed with renal failure. As you drift in and out of consciousness, you are vaguely aware your old family practice physician, who had taken care of you for 20 years, is not around. A religious man, he quietly retired from medical practice in 2014, after the full force of the Obama administration‘s removal of conscience protection for physicians in February, 2009, came into effect.
You feel vaguely uncomfortable as you are placed in a darkened room in the Comfort Care wing of the hospital. In moments of lucidity, you wonder if you shouldn't have some oxygen, an IV or SOMETHING! But the appropriate therapy, kidney dialysis, is not on the approved list of treatments for patients over 65, having been deemed too expensive.
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There will be a lot of doctors retiring soon. The greatest health care system in the world is on life support. When will Obama pull the plug?
My mantra for the "reform" of my personal finances is: buy lots more expensive stuff, spend much less money.
Both mantras recommend the impossible, but they sound great, don't they?
I went to my family physician today. He is a young man, based on my age, but he is the best doctor I’ve ever had, and I also accompany my elderly Mother when she sees him.
We had a brief discussion about the proposed govt. controlled health care system, and he said a few “select” things about what this will mean for health care.
I trust my doctor — in things related to my health, and also his views about the future of health care.
As I told another freeper in freepmail tonight, I am going to start writing my own prescriptions, starting with an order to spend most of the rest of my life fishing. Life is too short to not do things that bring you pleasure and peace of mind.
BTW, my doc is an angler, and I’ve given him lots of advice on how to help his five year old son catch fish (even slipped him a few good fishing lures).
I wasn’t trying to make any kind of diagnosis, but I sense the medical community is seriously worried about what is happening to the best health care system in the world.
I told him I don’t want some beaurecrat in D.C. dictating to me what treatment/diagnosis I need, and he reminded me insurance companies have taken this over years ago, but it’ll get worse when govt. runs healthcare.
I won’t even be able to get treatment after its nationalized, I have COPD (smoker, I admit it). My disease is self-inflicted, and therefore I probably won’t receive treatment. Not that I’d want a government worker giving me medical advice or treatment.
I just worry about people who have treatable or curable diseases who will be sent home to die, because the government says it wouldn’t be cost effective to treat these people.
My (and my Mother’s) doctor was really concerned today when I brought this up. I could see he wanted to talk more about this (but my elderly Mom was yelling “Let me talk to my doctor.”
The doc and I were able to fire off a few remarks back and forth. He mentioned the ones who will be making medical decisions on this “panel” have no medical practice backgrounds.
I could see the concern in his face.
Excellent piece. It magnifies some of the fine print in the Democrat’s blueprint for “change.” Physicians who serve their patients are scheduled for replacement by physicians who serve the state.
Hey we got 4 million shovel ready workers waiting to bury you!
I imagine that some doctors will just leave the profession.
They’ll probably limit the healthcare of mentally retarded and other handicapped people, you know, the “useless eaters.”
marking
“I won’t even be able to get treatment after its nationalized, I have COPD (smoker, I admit it). My disease is self-inflicted, and therefore I probably won’t receive treatment.”
A lot of, if not the the majority of, diseases could be categorized as “self-inflicted.” Diabetes? Bad eating habits. High blood pressure? Smoking, bad eating habits.
my doctor’s group is now using electronic medical records. i asked whether i could opt out. they said no.
i suspect this is part of the plan to weed us out.
There will be three factors that will basically remove most MDs from private practice:
1. Zer0’s thugs will reduce the payments that private MDs receive for medical services provided.
2. This will force many established private practice MDs out of their practices.
3. Few if any MDs after finishing their residencies want the regulatory/governmental abuses that come with private practice and reduced fees for services rendered will force more into group practices.
Many one doctor offices are down to minimal bare bone staffing these days: Doctor, Office RN or LVN and receptionist. Required/mandated electronic medical records are so damn complicated and skill specific like for the doctor, the office nurse and receptionist there is really no way to cover for each other. So if one person in a three person office gets sick or has a family emergency, many doctors are closing their practices until the absent person returns. Also, the many various systems on the market preclude having a locum Tenens physician or renta RN fill in for vacations,illness and other reasons for not working. So the private doctors just close their offices when everyone can’t work or is on vacation.
Last year when many of the local offices were going to the electronic medical record systems, I kept asking them what would happen if their offices lost electrical power. The answer I got everytime was we have great backup re preserving medical records.
Well, when the systems were installed and the eventual power failures happened, the doctors and office managers found out why I was asking the question. Their computers would not work, they couldn’t access the patients’s medical records, make appointments nor confirm that they had appointments. So they just shut the offices and locked the doors when the power failures happened like most stores with electronic checkout stands do.
If the trend continues, the private MDs will be a rarity.
Forgot to ping you to my reply re the flight of private mds.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2197945/posts?page=14#14
Good discussion of the problem, thanks.
You are welcome.
My wife has been an office RN for over 30 years.
It is very scary to see and hear what is happening locally to doctors, clinics and hospitals.
thanks, bfl
Margaret Sanger and her star pupil Adolf Hitler must be happy. Euthanasia has come to America, of course the elite will not be affected by any of this. Unless of course, the displease the One. Purges will begin, because once they get rid of us they will start eating the ones on their side they can’t trust. Soon Americans will have to hang their heads in shame when they travel abroad. I never thought I would see this day.
I could easily see the USA breaking up over this. A lot of people in the red states are dreading what’s coming and might become very ungovernable if things get worse. I don’t see the “redneck” portion passively turning in their guns.
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