Posted on 01/18/2011 4:04:33 AM PST by 1010RD
Members of favored classes and groups.
Registered Democrats who voted in last election verified by data link between voting records and health care records.
Registered Democrats who are given a lecture about the need to support Dear Leader.
Patients who accept an opportunity for instant Democrat registration.
Republicans willing to repent.
All others put in cost saving category as scored by HHS Health Czar. Come back next year for reassessment.
FAST EDDIE'S CANCER CLINIC AND MORTUARY
Actually there is a great vaccine, Zostavax, to prevent shingles or at least keep it from being a multi-year nightmare of pain. Ins may or may not pay for it, but it is about the best ins one can buy if you have to pay for it.
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I heard a story recently about some woman in Canada calling in to some talk show (Rosie O’Donuts?).
She need some sort of gastric-bypass surgery.
She was on a waiting-list.
The wait just for the first consultation with a doctor was SEVEN YEARS.
They told her that as things progressed it might stretch out to nine years.
That’s just for the first doctor visit.
“What Obamacare will be like in 25 years or sooner.”
If people want “free healthcare” we should give it to them. In fact, I think the best way to fix the private healthcare system is to divide medicine into two groups - people who pay, and people who do not pay.
Right now, as one system, the people who do not pay are destroying the system for people who pay - through increasing cost. Without Obama care.
Private insurance costs so much, in large part, because non-payers, including those on medicaid/medicare off load their costs onto people who do pay - whether through insurance or cas. So things cannot, and will not stay the same - regardless of whether obama care is repealed.
Free the private healthcare system from carrying the costs for people who do not pay, and you will get a system that is better and more affordable.
Those who can’t or won’t pay will be in the public system - and will get what the “public” decides to fund for them. They’ll wait in line much like the story of the Canadian system.
The rest will get what they pay for.
The takeaway for this story is not about Canadian Public Healthcare, it’s the success of the concept of private clinics - the deficiencies of the public healthcare system encourage those who can to seek private care.
That is how you encourage people to become insured.
The reason that a few people in the U.S. aren’t terribly disturbed by Obamacare is varied. Some of it is they’re original Obamabots and Obamacrats who worship the ground that he walks on; and there are those who think “it can’t possibly get as bad here as is depicted in this article” simply because they’ve been spoiled by having it so good for so long as Americans. Also, people have been accustomed to being able to squawk loud enough about the President and the Government; but we have all seen that Obama and his administration are selectively tone deaf to the cries of the people. As it regresses, it may one day be too late to turn this runaway train around.
Hopefully, they defibrillated him.
I just experienced it here in Texas.
My son (32 years old with myotonic muscular dystrophy)is covered under both medicaid since he can not obtain any type of insurance due to the nature of his disease.
The Sunday before last he had a severe bowel obstruction and we went to the hospital emergency room due to the day and the fact that on Sunday the doctor’s office was closed.
It turned out almost exactly as described in the article and it was over 10 hours before he was actually placed in a bed in the hospital.
Worse yet, he was in the hospital for more than 6 days and no one could tell us exactly what was the cause (and cure) for his affliction, nor would they ever call you back if requested.
We had an extra-ordinary amount of X-rays and catscans with no apparent medicine or other actions beyond a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach for 3 of the 6 days. Other than that, he simply languished in the hospital until I raised enough hell to convince them to release him if he was well enough to go home.
It then dawned on me that all of the time he was in the hospital, along with all of the tests and cost of the room was to pad the easy money they would make from our medicaid system. They were simply “milking” the system by using the “cash cows” that entered through the emergency room...nothing more!
That's all well and good for Zostavax, but you DO have to see a doctor, to be diagnosed and receive a prescription.
And while we're on the subject, Zostavax, and other medicines exist because research and development pharmaceutical companies made the investment to create such a medicine. Zostavax wasn't developed as a "generic" drug, nor was it developed by a government entity. It was developed by a private company, who knew there was a medical need, and also knew that by supplying said product, they might create a profit for their time, effort, and risk.
Does anyone think that under Obamacare, such incentives will exist, and that pharmaceutical companies will take financial risks to develop innovative medicines? Why would they?
Exactly, although there’s nothing new about it. That’s Dem 101.
“Don’t worry if they’re Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they’ll become Democrats.” - Richard J. Daley
He’s the first Mayor Daley.
Love Niven and you’re right.
Thanks very much for the tip. I’ve forwarded it already.
Thanks, I will ask my doctor about it. I am already in enough pain, I don’t want any more.
A friend of mine spent 6 hours in a hallway until her appendix exploded. No pain meds, no nothing.
It wasn’t until she passed out from the pain and her husband started screaming that they did anything for her. And she has BC/BS.
Hospitals suck.
OK, the Moose represents Canadian health care, but what does the frog represent?
That’s the direction we’re heading. We’ve got the best medical system in the world.
I hate when it gets measured by percent of GDP spending, as if that’s a real measure. We spend more on it because we consume more of it.
That’s due to government skewing the market. Let’s return to the market and get government out of health care.
The intervention by government enables free riders to force their bad decisions on us.
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