Isn’t this discussion about the healthcare bill funding abortion misguided? And for that matter, isn’t the whole abortion rights / anti-abortion argument misguided? Are there really that many people who think they should tell gynecologists how best to treat their patients’ complicated illnesses? Are there really that many people willing to allow our society to use abortion as a form of birth control? And aren’t abortion clinics exploiting women – physically and psychologically? And who the hell becomes and abortionist?
We will get healthcare reform. If Congress can’t destroy it first, the market will destroy healthcare for us. Something will happen.
Recently, while attending in the lab, I received a call from my close friend Noisy Dove who was on vacation in the wild west of Utah. He posed an interesting question to me, looking for the expertise of a Doctor to satisfy his inquiry. His question was this…
In a single payer option there would be no competition. That’s why it’s called single payer. That’s what Canada and Australia have. It only concerns the payment side, like Medicare. Obama did believe in this until just recently. I mean, that was one of the reasons many people voted for him. But now he no longer supports it.
Palin is talking about two things I think. One might be the clause that provides DNR consultations. But the valid thing she’s talking about is the eventual (or immediate) need in any universal provider of anything for free (or paid for through taxes not in proportion to that service) is the need to — ration. And you don’t ration life-saving care away from
productive tax revenue sources. It would only be a matter of time, a new downturn or war, before priorities would have to shift to the healthy intelligent young people and the old and deficient would all be screwed – because there aren’t any other options for someone who wants to care for a retarded child or old senile parent.
Noisy Dove recently sat down with our medical consultant, Dr. Dove. Noisy Dove discussed the health care reform at length with Dr. Dove. Here are the highlights of Dr. Dove’s perspective as one actually in the trenches.
Noisy Dove:
So Dr. Dove, what do you think of the 1000 plus page health care reform bill?
LOL England’s health system, with 1.33 million employees, is the fourth largest employer in the world behind the Chinese Red Army (2.25 million) Wall-Mart (1.8 million) and the Indian Rail (1.4 million). There are more managers than doctors.
Obama, since he started his candidacy, has used somewhat rosy numbers to calculate the costs and benefits of the policies he advocates. His first big one was the promise of “tax cuts” for the poor and middle class, do you remember, even for people who don’t pay income taxes in order to “spread the wealth around”? And added to that he was also going to reduce the national debt. Yeah, campaigns are historically full of wishful promises.
Talk to some people, maybe some Canadian patients, doctors, or medical residents. They would describe the type of health care system that drives doctors, nurses, and patients alike to move the hell off the maple orchard.
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