I may supremely naive but I have confidence in a 5-4 Supreme court decision within the next 10 days putting in an injunction and ordering a 60-day timeout for sides to be briefed either at SCOTUS or a lower court level. And then a 5-4 decision that the govt. can’t compel healthcare. Thus that part of the bill is invalidated and with it the underpinning of the whole thing.
We’ll have the Bush v. Gore election fiasco to get through. Keep the faith.
Im trying to. I just woke up after stumbling home at 6:30 this AM after a 17 hour shift. I’m doing my best for my patients with relatively little reimbursement now (think of what a lawyer or executive would make for 17 hours straight, and what I made last night doesn’t even compare.) I wake up to watch the dems flush my retirement, my country, and my career down the toilet. Not a happy morning.
As soon as we get a single payer system, or the government starts to tell me what I can or can’t do to treat my patients, I will retire and open my quilt shop. They have cut reimbursement on medicare and medicaid pt so far that it costs most of us money to see those patients. Now they will cut another 500 million from the system, increase controls and head us toward a single payer system
Then, as my career goes down the toilet, I will get to pay even higher taxes for them to ruin my life. Sorry, not much optimism here today.