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 patients

One 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.

I’m trying to track down the story about a woman in Oregon who has cancer. The single payer healthcare system will not pay for her chemo, but will pay for her assisted suicide. At this time drug manufacturers are chipping in to cover the $4000/month chemo cost for up to one year. You want this from the Feds?

Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits

[snip]
Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies.

The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker: “the father of Quebec medicare.” Even this title seems modest; Castonguay’s work triggered a domino effect across the country, until eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast.

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in “crisis.” [snip]

In Vermont, the legislature is determined to socialize this state to the nth degree with all power residing in Montpelier. What businesses loiter and how many taxpayers remain is unknown; I surmise the number will be small. Who then tithes the elite?

This tidbit is like worry beads while you read the above article in it’s entirety.

[snip]
The Knox County Industrial Development Board’s application review committee met to consider an application from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, a Waterbury, Vt.-based company that is considering an expansion in Knox County. Green Mountain already has announced plans to buy a building in the Forks of the River Industrial Park, outlining a proposal to invest $55 million in a packaging and distribution operation that could eventually provide 360 new jobs.[snip]

Vermont isn’t even being considered for the expansion. This doesn’t bother the Democrat candidate for governor who is responsible for these circumstances.

Putting the X’es in the proper boxes is all that is left to do, after all this is NHS. Wasn’t there “free” condoms, birth control pills and whatever else? All that free stuff that one is suppose to receive with national health care wasn’t available. Oh yeah, it’s unlawful to pay for it outside the system too.

Here in America, she’d be properly counseled to tell him to shove it. And no, don’t worry about your parents or school if you are under age.

Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins

An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.”

Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.

Her suicide note read: “I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does.” [snip]

“She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins.

“I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done.”

The doctor said: “I discussed Emma’s situation with her, and wrote on the form, ‘Unsupported, lives alone, ex-partner aware’.

Isn’t that a warm desk side manner exhibited!

“It is normal practice to give a woman the number for telephone counselling when a counsellor is not available.

“I am satisfied that everything was done to make sure that Emma consented to the operation.

She added: “We have since appointed more counsellors so there is more holiday cover.” [snip]

Right! We closed the door after the horse went for a stroll.

“She was pleased when she became pregnant, but Ben reacted badly to the news.”

What does he have to say about it. She should have told him to bugger off! After all, it is the woman’s right to choose.

Recording a verdict of suicide, Dr Carlyon said: “It is clear that a termination can have a profound effect on a woman’s life. [snip]

Now that is a bit of awareness on Dr. Carlyon’s part.