Posted on 10/14/2009 7:48:11 AM PDT by bamahead
The headline in Investor’s Business Daily, Sept. 16, 2009: “45% of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul.”
The headline in the Boston Globe, Sept. 28, 2009: “States risk it, raise tax on rich.”
The problem with four of nine U.S. doctors saying they “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” is that “the number of doctors is already lagging population growth,” reports IBD.
Add millions of new patients to a shrinking supply of doctors and the obvious result is an English-style queue, longer waits in pain, and a centrally directed rationing of service.
That Boston Globe article on soaking the rich explains that New York’s increased confiscation of income from the “deep-pocketed rich” through higher taxes is producing a “millionaires’ exit.”
Said New York’s lieutenant governor, Richard Ravitch, regarding the flight of the state’s millionaires and the decline in government revenues that has already occurred as a result of the higher tax rates: “People aren’t wedded to a geographic place as they once were.”
In Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand, the most productive and creative citizens in the United States -- the innovators, risk-takers, artists, entrepreneurs, capitalists, intellectuals, industrialists -- overturn the conventional concept of victimhood and go on strike, refusing any longer to be exploited by society, refusing to be demonized as too successful, too rich, too individualistic, too free.
Led by John Galt, the novel’s hero, the industrious organize a strike against the ever-expanding yoke of government coercion. They strike to halt the murder of man’s spirit, to halt the confiscation of man’s work, to defend individualism, reason, liberty, human achievement and the market economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
no.. that’s not what they meant.
they intended to find those doctors that quit... the 45%... and draft them BACK into working.
NO ONE during this whole process has mentioned creating new medical personnel to cut costs
My doctor and my dentist are now only seeing patients with certain insurance. It no longer pays to see government sponsored program patients or people with certain insurance plans that pay next to nothing, are a hassle to get paid by, or refuse to pay for important procedures or medications.
“Thousands of freight cars will run 24/7 carrying the bodies of dead Democrats to mass unmarked government graves....”
Here’s a corrected version:
“Thousands of freight cars will run 24/7 carrying the bodies of dead Democrats to the nearest local processing facility of the Soylent Corporation.
Alpo may also bid for the dead Democraps.
Drafting doctors into public option health care
Many docs feel like slaves to the gov't and insurance companies already. Large numbers of them will choose to start collecting Social Security, leave the country or organize for collective bargaining like other unions.
Here, however, is a report in the news bulletin of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:
On Sept. 10, 1009, "Dr. Smith" went to Washington.
Nearly 1,000 physicians left their practices to travel, at their own expense, to the Capitol. After meeting with their congressmen, they came to a rally in the Upper Senate Park, organized by AAPS and Tea Party Patriots, to tell Congress to "stop meddling in medicine."
Speakers included physician/congressmen Phil Gingrey (R-GA), Tom Price (R-GA), and Paul Broun (R-GA), and practicing physicians representing AAPS, Docs4Patient Care, Physicians for Reform, and the D. C. Medical Society.
The event was prompted by the AMA's support of bills that would turn more control over to government.
"The AMA's endorsement of H.R. 3200 was bought and sold, at the expense of patients," said Seattle neurosurgeon Michael Schlitt, M.D., who spoke at the rally. "I couldn't stand by without telling Congress and the public that the AMA doesn't represent me, or most doctors I know. And it's time Congress listens to real doctors from the front lines."
Before the rally, two shifts of six physicians held signs in front of the AMA's D. C. headquarters: "Honk if you support your doctor," or "the AMA has sold out patients and physicians." Numerous people stopped to talk," reports AAPS president Mark Kellen, M.D. "They were genuinely interested in our point of view, and 9 out of 10 agreed with us that socialism is bad for America," he said.
So they draft doctors. Let’s follow that scenario...
One reason doctors make big bucks is the insane hours and patient load they accept every day. 12-hour shifts, multi-booking patients, at-home and in-transit fielding of phone calls & paperwork, etc. ... and despite all that voluntary extra effort (compensated by high pay) the demand for doctors strains supply. Force them to work, and force them to accept reduced pay, and Congress will find the demand still cannot be met - because they will work only the hours they are compelled to, will shrug when overloaded instead of work harder, and will spend more time on paperwork than patients; why should they do otherwise when neither at liberty to act on their own choices nor compensated enough for what they are compelled to?
We barely have enough doctors as it is now; a doctor draft could never supply the demand.
You cannot make someone go back to work if they don’t want too. You can always give up your license for personal or health reasons and get it back later if you need it. I have seen it happen. This time instead of Blue Flu, you get White Coat Flu.
“Do you have any medical experience.”
“Well I did dissect a frog once in third grade.”
“Congratulations, you’re now a doctor!”
>>During the TV interview when the Visitor woman says to the interviewer that they shouldn’t say anything that would “put us in a bad light”. Near fell off my couch the first time I heard that one.
It’s almost like “V” is some TV exec’s attempt at doing the POW trick of blinking or tapping SOS as they are forced to read statements denouncing America. Maybe some of them realize that they’ve been turned into the propaganda machine for an evil regime and know how history will treat them.
Or maybe I’m just being hopeful that even liberals are starting to shake off the effects of Hope-n-Change Narcosis.
>>You cannot make someone go back to work if they don’t want too.
In a FREE country, you can’t. Welcome to Soviet America, comrade!
maybe in old America... but in communist China, and the upcoming brave new Amerika, if you don’t perform up to previous standards they will hurt you or your family.
yes, this is a real topic discussed seriously... right now... in America
yea ... change \o/ /sarc
BINGO!!! GREAT POST! BTTT!!!
Just a way to get more revune for the states and control, and keep track of more tax money.
YES!!
they could, in theory, force each potential doctor to work at some “necessary” district for a period of time before a license would be granted. unlikely, but possible.
They already incentivize that with some of the loan terms.
You can have these favorable student loan terms if you agree to work in this “underserved” area,
or you can have these less favorable terms and not have any requirements.
A “draft” is what happened in England.
I’m paraphrasing, but the end result was this: Doctors, squeezed by high taxes and falling wages under socialized medicine, were pressed into service in quasi-military hospitals (read as: hospitals that used to treat only soldiers but now treat the gargantuan overflow of sheeple created by Commucare) when they attempted to leave the profession.
Absolutely!!! A couple Jewish MDs I know have applied and been accepted to go to Israel and do research if this Obama deal passes.
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