How Trump can Save Rural Health Care

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, America is coming to terms with a grim reality: thanks in large part to the federal government’s destructive, centrally planned healthcare initiatives, the healthcare industry is deteriorating rapidly. The system doesn’t have the resources to address the United States’ growing medical needs -- and nowhere is this more acutely felt than in rural America.

A December Fox News report highlighted how fixing the rural healthcare crisis has become a top campaign issue for many states. Since 2005, over 160 rural hospitals have closed their doors, and no less than 430 more are at risk of shutting down. Coupled with the looming doctor shortage, the shuttering of rural-based hospitals presents a difficult problem for the 46 million Americans living in low-population-density areas.

President Trump has been ahead of the curve on this issue. His office isn’t merely parading slogans and empty promises; for the last three years and counting, it has been working to combat this issue. Whether the administration is updating Medicare payment policies to advance rural medical innovation or easing regulations for rural providers, it has done a great deal to expand healthcare access throughout the American heartland. The residents of critical electoral states like Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Texas have taken note.

The Democrat nominees have taken note as well. In an attempt to cut into the president’s rural voting base, candidates such as Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have drummed up some noise by trotting out their own “solutions” to this crisis.

Their pie-in-the-sky plans won’t mean much to these voters -- not when they already have a proven ally in the White House. However, if the Trump White House makes any mistakes on this issue, it will allow them to pounce and steal away some support.

The healthcare industry has a lot of problems, yes. But the problem in the political circles is not the industry, which the left wants to tear down, but rather a sliver of our population that has no coverage. The left loves to say “healthcare”, but its not about that, everyone gets it, its about insurance.

The right has to come up with a solution for the sliver of the population that either owns or works for companies too small to provide a plan, cost effectively. If we don’t, idiots like the Bern look attractive to many, and their sympathizers.

Let people buy in to Medicaid for 5-10% of their earnings, only if no plan is offered by employers (who should have to with employee base of 100 or more)?

It goes beyond this, most rural hospitals can’t and don’t offer cutting edge medical care, much of the staff are badly trained.

We have 1 Pediatrician, 1 Family doc. 1 day a week the Cardio comes in for half a day. 1 Pediatric dentist open 3 days a week. A Kroger’s minor med, a newly opened higher end Emergency Med, 2 Pharmacies. The 2 closet hospitals one you’d not take your dog to, the other is in high crime area. Where they and hospital staff smoke MMJ out front. VA SUCKS government Union controlled. Knoxville is home of Illegals and Refugees because of the libtards who run it.

For anything else it’s a 2 hr commute + wait time.

Up in and around Dollywood the hospitals are 2 star rated. plain Jain treatment by doctors who’d never make it in large cities. Closest C grade is Knoxville. If you can get in between the Illegals and Refugees. 2.5 star hospital. Niece was seeing her Lung doctor on the upper floor, her BP went out of control, he had her wheeled to the ER and they did Nothing to bring Stage 4 (heart Attack zone) down, No Cardio called in. 2 days in hospital where she was Forced Tapered off 2 necessary medications. Valium stops the Jacksonian seizures, Flexeril the muscle jerking that will tear the Meniscus knee tear which has already been repaired 3 times, no more tries.

Knoxville is closet place for Specialist, it’s taken my niece 1 yr to get an appointment with a Duchene MD specialist for her 14 yr old who is Gene Positive and shows signs of worsening.

VA in Rep Phil Roe’s district is where you go to die in torture and bad care.

Then you add the DOPE issue, depressed economy except tourism. Few well paying jobs. Intractable Pain Patients are up the creek with no paddle, these are Rare Diseases and car wrecks and falls badly repaired. That end up at the 2 star hospitals because of lack of transportation.

What rural health care?

We had two legitimate doctors in an area of 10,000 or so. One just retired. The hospital has not seen an upgrade in more than 50 years.

Meanwhile, there are at least 6 licensed doctors doing nothing but “pain management” which is nothing but drug peddling. While they are doing that they are filling medical marijuana prescriptions and handing them out like lollipops. One moved here to do nothing but marijuana prescriptions.

Rural America is a drug culture fueled by obammycare and welfare.

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