Here we have these people with his mindset (and don’t let anyone fool you...they all feel this way) where people less than age 15 and more than 40 will have, in the words of this hideous excuse of a human being “chances that are attenuated” .
Let’s roll that one around on the tongue just a bit. “chances that are attenuated”.
I think anyone with a half a brain (who, by the way, will be one of those with “chances that are attenuated”) can understand clearly what that means. It means if there is ONE surgeon available to either do a bypass on a 50 year old guy or to repair vascular damage on a 21 year old who cracked his car up while doing ecstasy, then the jackass on ecstasy gets to live.
We know this, because there will be rules in place. Inflexible rules, backed up by the power of the federal government to levy a first offense fine for non-compliance of $100,000 and a second offense punishable by incarceration. (Note: This description of “The Complete Lives System” by Dr. Mengele’s kindred spirit, Dr. Emanuel, is not in the law. Yet. But his OWN words illustrate his mindset...)
This physician in the video who said he spoke in front of hundreds of members of congress on this already knows what is going to be done. According to him, he will examine the patient, enter diagnosis codes (probably ICD-10 codes) which will then query the government for appropriate treatment, which he will then be REQUIRED BY LAW to follow. Required by penalty of law, backed up by fines and incarceration.
It may not be evident that there will be rationing, but there will be. Rationing will take place in a variety of ways. In much the way I believe the government is limiting the 2nd Amendment rights of gunowners by restricting the availability of both guns and ammunition in a variety of ways, our access to health care will be limited.
Today, if you have certain indications on a mammogram, a biopsy is set up immediately, speed is of the essence. You may even get a cutting edge Breast MRI exam, which is an excellent modality for resolving questions on those indications. It works well, and is getting better. The profit motive is there for hospitals and imaging centers to provide the service at levels people and clinicians want.
The plan of those who want nationalized healthcare is to make it unprofitable, to the point where services will not be immediately available. Now, you might be able to get a breast MRI in a matter of weeks. In the future, they may agree to allow breast MRI, but will simply reimburse so little that hospitals and imaging centers will be unwilling or unable to provide the patient with an MRI in less than six months.
When reimbursements are cut in a variety of ways, this affects the entire healthcare industry (yes...it is an industry, and a profitable one. Which is good for consumers) By cutting how much gets paid, there is less money to hire technologists to run the scanners and radiologists to interpret them. So, the first thing to go will be the hours of operation. Instead of running 24x7, they will be open 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Boom. A large part of bandwidth is going to disappear, and the wait time will go from weeks to months.
Then, the amount of money available for system maintenance and software/hardware upgrades diminishes, there is more unexpected downtime, and great technologies like breast MRI are never developed. (I use breast MRI as an example, but there are hundreds, no, thousands of examples. Breast MRI is just one...) Dissatisfaction on the part of patients increases due to long waits and unnecessary time taken off work (for those who will be lucky enough to actually have a job)
But the biggest effect will be that care will be delayed. Things that were curable and treatable will become incurable and untreatable due to the progression, and these people will fall into the “attenuated chances” pool. You will, in the words of this Piece of Crap in the White House, be given a pill and told there it little that can be done.
Do I sound angry? DAMN RIGHT. I AM angry as hell. We have the best healthcare in the world, bar none. Capitalistic forces drive it, but it is there. These marxists in power despise capitalism, and are going to destroy the quality of the system by removing its evil underpinnings.
Basically, they are going to turn it into Soviet style healthcare.
So, that 50 year old guy who needs a surgeon...well, he is $hit out of luck. Unless his name happens to be Dr. Emanuel or Senator Kennedy. Then, they won’t have to follow the rules, because we “need” those people.
They are more important, the government says so.
I cannot see how the Federal Government could outlaw a private primary care doctor contracting with patients directly.
Much like the VIP concierge plans that exist now.
Of course - the government will become the only licensing agency.