[New Yawk Minute]

You have a couple of things wrong. It isnt just the elderly, or the disabled, or even the seriously ill, who will suffer by obamacare..it is every single one of us.

You have doctors ready to retire or give up their practices, or go practice in the middle east, who are offering them a tax free salary, over a months vacation, 48 hour work week and a free yearly trip to the USA.

If this bill goes thru and takes over the lives of doctors and their practices, we will have no doctors. In some places, today..people cant find a specialist for miles. And if they find one, they cant get an appointment for months. What do you think will happen if they shove more people into the system and doctors leave?

We will all be dead. It doesnt matter what your age is, or the condition of your health. When you need a doctor, there wont be any for you.

Go read here, Click all of the pages up top.
http://www.millionmedmarch.com/

[stayathomemom]

I just quoted one thing form the article and commented on one thing. How could I have a couple of things wrong? I have a very good idea of what this could do. I’m married to a Michigan physician who is seriously looking at leaving the state if Granholm decides she wants to tax doctors an extra 3% on their gross salary. I know that it could severely curtail research and lifesaving advancements in medicine. I am aware of how malpractice insurance and awards can drive doctors from states or locals. I have an 91 year old mother whom I pray will not be denied care the next time she has to go in for a procedure so that she can swallow normally. There are countless bad ramifications if this goes through. Being deemed a useless drain on the system at the age of 80 is only one of them.

[arthurus]

What no one seems to consider is the effect nationalized medicine in America will have for the world. The American market is the sole target for the R&D of drug companies, wherever they are in the world. Only the still free American new-drug market can and will pay for research and new drugs that come from that research. No government will. One may say well we are so much better off than our forebears that we can afford to freeze progress and live at the current level. Considerantibiotics. They decline in effectiveness as the pathogens mutate and develop immunities to them. They have to be replaced by new antibiotics periodically. That takes expensive R&D. After the advent of any form of universal government medicine the American market will be gone. So will R&D. So will new antibiotics. In a generation or two there will be, effectively, no antibiotics. Medicine will retrogress to ca 1900. Mortality of surgical procedures will rise exponentially and- if you get sick you die.