Health care without doctors
Survey:
Half of primary-care doctors would QUIT medicine
With the election of The One, we have the promise of national health care. If the Senate gets a filibuster proof majority, we will have it soonest. Tom Daschle will be Health and Human Services Secretary; he prays at the altar of socialistic programs.
Keeping that in mind, peruse the following excerpts:
[A]…survey, released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry.
Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said…[]… because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies. And if that many physicians stopped practicing, that could be devastating to the health care industry.
With lower reimbursement from insurance companies and the cost of malpractice insurance skyrocketing, these health professionals say it’s not worth running a practice and are changing careers. Others say they’re going into so-called boutique medicine, in which they charge patients a yearly fee up front and don’t take insurance.
And some like Pocinki are limiting the type of insurance they’ll take and the number of patients on Medicare and Medicaid. According to the foundation’s report, over a third of those surveyed have closed their practices to Medicaid patients and 12 percent have closed their practices to Medicare patientsOne of President-elect Barack Obama’s health care promises is to provide a primary care physician for every American. But some health experts, including Pocinki, are skeptical.
“People who have insurance can’t find a doctor, so suddenly we are going to give insurance to a whole bunch of people who haven’t had it, without increasing the number of physicians?” he says. “It’s going to be a problem.”
(All emphasis mine)
Watch this disaster unfold. The alt-A-Sub-prime mortgage mess will be a triffle compared to this debacle.
The only blessing in this play is the fingerprints on this will be all Democrats and RINO’s. One can only hope that not too many die in the interregnum.
Archived in: Democrats, National health care, Obama, RINO'sNovember 19, 2008 at 5:39 pm | Trackback
6 comments
what about the people that “don’t want” a primary care physician, like me. and i certainly don’t want tax payers to pay for stuff like this. and i really certainly with everything that i am don’t want the tax payers to pay for things i don’t even want.
i am my own doctor. a handful of raw spinach gets rid of headaches faster than any pill of tylenol i’ve ever swallowed.
Chris, that fine for you. Surgery might be a bitch.
The problem is no doctors for most people. This condition exists in MA now. Many places are finding that the low end people are being shoehorned into clinics. all the regs on insurance and rates causes them to opt out and set up private practices where they can see patients and take time with them.
Something no one ever asks of professionals, lawyers, doctors etc. is, “Out of X, what was your class position?” As idiotic as it sounds, 50% of these pros graduated in the bottom half of their class. Was your doctor, lawyer or indian chief drinking, chasing crotch, smoking dope or were they studying.
You hear of how many of the wizards cutting off the wrong leg or yanking out the wrong body part.
surgery is something else. primary care physicians is another word for general practitioner. yes, there is a place in society for surgeons. there is no place in society for those who only understand western drugs. these people typically know nothing of the human body. for this, a nutritionist will do you better.
I wasn’t speaking to major cutting; how about dermal and some sub-dermal minor removal of say warts, moles or splinters.
There are many persons that will be severely shortchanged by this one size fits all health care. You know the DC clowns WILL NOT be part of the system.
those are doctors of a specialized trade, the kind you pay $35 copay instead of $20.
the point i’m trying to make is that many people “don’t need” a doctor for many things. i have an aunt that goes to the doctor every time she coughs. then she’s always sick for a week while being on all of their medication. ironically, the best thing for a cold is to leave it alone. starving yourself means your body focuses its energy on it’s T cells and things that support your immune system, instead of wasting energy digesting. my flu’s last for 2 days, max, not including the discomfort caused by the tissue damage that usually lasts a few weeks after. if your immune system was weak before you engaged the cold virus, than it’s because you treat your body very poorly for the weeks before you got it. most food you eat while being sick is just prolonging it since it takes weeks to build up your immune system, not hours. and you can ask anyone who says they never get sick or when they do it only lasts a day or less. these people will always say they stop eating.
people don’t need to see a doctor as much as they think they do. most people are generally healthy and don’t require regular visits to a doctor. in extreme cases like my aunt, she would actually benefit by “not” seeing a doctor. no one questions the long-term affects of drugs, prescription or not. she is destroying her body, and once healthcare becomes “free”, everyone will be destroying their body, which means they will be more and more reliant on doctors for survival and then there’ll “really” be a shortage of doctors, and the whole thing spirals into chaos.
there is no health care crisis in the US and people need to stop believing the media. yes, it’s true that medical costs are on the rise, but it’s because of reasons that no one wants to admit, such as how doctors are allowed to charge their patients more if they have insurance, and less if they don’t.
last summer i sprained on my left ankle multiple times in a single day. the doctor wrapped my foot and gave me a splint. i was in and out in just a matter of maybe half an hour if you include the waiting. there’s no reason he should’ve charged $1,180. if someone wants to attack the health care “crisis” then they should look at why these places are charging outrageous prices for an ace bandage and a piece of plastic with a rotating lever on it. if they would attack the problem from this angle, from the “source” of the problem, than personal health care would not cost $750/mo. the market will naturally allow it to be lowered to a more reasonable level.
i wholly agree with your final statement. the “DC clowns” will of’course have their own personal doctors that will give them priority over anyone else and not have to pay into the health care system. if they never got away with crap like this, then so many other problems about the US would also not be happening.
I agree that many people go to doctors for minor things. That is a product of having insurance, paid for by someone else with low or no co-pays.
I would do away with insurance altogether.
It makes people slaves to what ever job they have to keep their health insurance.
People should buy Major Medical to cover catastrophic illness/accidents.
Regular visits to the doctor, take your 1040 and get charged according to what you can afford to pay. I can remember the doctor getting paid $2.00 for a house call or a ham, bread or his car fixed.
Having to pay for what you use cuts down on many trifling visits.