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That’s very interesting, thank you! I know my wife has patients constantly asking her what Obamacare will do to medicine. She has a lot of little old people she has been caring for, in some cases, over two decades. They are begging her not to retire, what will they do? You see, she still takes Medicare patients, but many younger practices don’t. And, if we don’t rid ourselves of Obama and repeal Obamacare, seniors will be out of luck. There will be months-long waits, Medicare payment to doctors and hospitals will be ratcheted down, and docs will not be able to take on new patients on Medicare and maintain their practices. This is a critical situation, the survival of American medicine - the best bar none in the world - depends on freeing the USA from Obama and the left.

Everything you wrote my Wife is experiencing. Many of her patients complain about the waits now without putting two and two together. Many have figured out that reimbursement cuts over the last couple of decades have brought us to where we are today and realize the horror of obamacare. If the waits are six months now, they may very well be over a year soon. This is the insidiousness of the system. Everyone will have "health coverage" of some sort, but will not have health care.

In my Wife's specialty a wait of a year or more will result in delayed treatment and diagnosis. When diagnosis and treatment are delayed, the brain continues to degenerate resulting in much poorer short and longterm outcomes. Further, after the initial diagnosis there is a period of at least a year of intensive followup visits before moving into the disease maintenance stage. I cannot overemphasize how evil these "health care" changes are. It is a perversion of health care into death care.