ObamaCare and me (from the perspective of a pediatric ophthalmologist)

American Thinker ^ | August 06, 2009 | Zane F Pollard, MD

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

THAT (the second image) is EXACTLY the kind of material I believe can have an impact.

[FormerACLUmember]

Thank you Dr. Pollard, for writing this and providing some genuine enlightenment.

You are are an Officer (retired) and a Gentleman. Not to mention, a Saint.

You are a man of ethics, the precise opposite of that shameful moral renegade Administration physician brother of Rahm Emanuel.

[Boucheau]

Well, use it!

I make this stuff for FR.

It’s all yours.

Let me know if you want some customization.

I’m delighted to help.

(What, was the first one too much? Be nice, I’m workin’ alone here.)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Whoops. I accidently emailed that link to a bunch of folk.

Sorry. /sarcasm

[Pajamajan]

EVERYONE-IN-AMERICA-NEEDS-TO-READ-THIS BUMP

[jwparkerjr]

The absolute hallmark of everything The One's team sets out to accomplish is that those selected to do the job have no experience or expertise in the field. They are political hacks and the positions are political payoffs. It's political patronage, a la Chicago, at its best. It's obvious, to me at least, that they have no interest in making the projects they take on work and work well. Rather, they are interested only in getting control of them and making them over in accord with their personal ideas of what they should be.

We are so screwed unless we find a way to activate the very effective term limits, called elections, provided for us by our Founding Fathers. They gave us everything we need to turn this around and put America back on track. But as long as the ruling class in DC can buy the votes of non-producers by taking at gun point the resources of the producers nothing will change.

Somehow we have got to get producers to the polls in 2010 and fire as many members of the House as we can.

[MarMema]

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[Brad’s Gramma]

Sad BTTT........

[dagogo redux]

Thanks for such a fine post. My specialty, psychiatry, is a bit different than most, but I and my patients will likely be among the hardest hit. I don’t see Medicaid, and will be curtailing Medicare soon I think. I specialize in more difficult cases in an area where there are few options for patients. If I retire, there will be a huge gap here. But I will likely retire as soon as possible from a specialty that can normally be practiced far into old age, and one which already attracts far fewer applicants than slots in residency programs.

Many of my elderly patients, without my saying anything, are bringing up their understanding that I may either retire soon (early) or stop seeing Medicare folks altogether. They understand the ship is going down. They understand there will not be a seat in the life boat for them. Many explain their embarrassment at having voted for Obama and the rest of the gang forcing this and other similar changes upon the country. It is poignant. Sad for them. Sad for us all.

Cicero and other Greco-Roman moral philosophers often wrote treatises arguing against fear of death. One of their arguments pointed out that an early but otherwise neutral death is preferable to a longer life that then ends in a death amidst great mental suffering. I think many of my patients, when the time comes, will look back and wish they had died before their lives and their country came to this. Perhaps we all will.

[CaliGirl-R]

“Whoops. I accidently emailed that link to a bunch of folk.”

OMG, me too. Were we not supposed to do that? :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hope no one reads them!

[Brad’s Gramma]

I was talking to my elderly Mom a couple days ago about this mess. No, SHE didn’t vote for the Zero...but she hurts for her kids, knowing what we’re about to go through....

[Boucheau]

You might think this extreme but I know a guy (79) who waited almost 30 minutes in an ER wait room, with severe head pain, while suffering what ended up being a minor stroke. That was just over a year ago--and he had a good private insurance plan.

What kind of care will you get from people who are essentially civil servants?

[neverdem]

What kind of care will you get from people who are essentially civil servants?

The ones who keep working will join a union and then strike for more pay. See what happens in a bureaucratic slowdown.

[Boucheau]

Here's that one with the typo fixed. I tol'ya I'm working alone here :0)

[Las Vegas Dave]

Worth printing out and making several copies for “when you need them”!

[wastoute]

I have been posting here about this for months. If Zero is successful back alleys is where those who can afford it will go. Abortion will be available on demand on Main Street but Lipitor will be pushed through car windows on street corners by "not so friendly" youngsters wearing their hats backwards. Like during prohibition LEOs will do nicely taking the bribes that allow the entire scheme to continue because "back alley" medicine will be illegal. Folks like pediatric ophthalmologists will be outa luck cause you won't be able to do what they do in a back alley. Of course many of them will emmigrate to India where those who can afford to go there will take their kids. If Zero and his minions get their way things will cahnge, fer sure, but there won't be much hope.

I suspect saner heads in the Senate will begin to prevail as Zero's poll numbers drop. It will be much easier for them to stand up to him as this happens. I expect the Senate to block every bit of his agenda because the consequences of his success would be so obviously disatrous. Cap and Tax, healthcare won't pass the Senate. Immigration reform damn well better not, if it does our only recourse is war. The Porkulus can be "undone" as most of it hasn't been spent yet. The libtards are guilty of over-reaching and will pay the price IMHO.

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[Ulysse]

“FREE”(there is always someone who will pay the bill)National Health Care would create a huge drain for illegal immigrants ,create a huge tax burden for the next generations in US,weaken the US economy for a long long time,and “CHANGE” the US society...

It’s the corner stone of the OBAMAO’s untold plan...which is called “CHANGE” to fool people