Retire?
Operate, you bastard. I SAID OPERATE.
Posted on 11/03/2013 5:02:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
You would think that when your party is burying a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster. But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you. A birdie sent me this:
FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations. The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.
Many more people will be uninsured. The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach.
The out of pocket costs required by Obamacare's Silver Plan for a non-smoking mother and father with two children making a gross before income taxes of $50,000 (roughly average salary for VA) would be $13,765 per year including the deductible of $10,400. That's 28% of their gross income -- not very affordable and about the same as guidelines for a mortgage payment. For such a family making $100,000 of gross income, The cost would be $21,431 including the deductible of $12,700, or 21% of gross income.
With such high deductibles doctors are stuck with trying to collect cash from the patients, even at regulated charge structures. Thus is makes sense for primary care doctors not to participate in Obamacare, medicare and medicaid. They should encourage patients to participate in Concierge Care and insurance programs run by the doctors themselves with patients who can do simple math. Patients can take out catastrophic insurance with high deductibles for major surgeries. Tax deductability for individual medical savings accounts would make health care more affordable.
The head of Obamacare programs, Berwick, loves the socialized medical system in the UK, but never mentions that malpractice insurance is minimal. In the UK, panels of doctors review and approve malpractice awards, rather than emotional juries misled by trial lawyers. Malpractice reform like this with caps on malpractice awards would go a long way in making health care affordable.
I hope physicians rise up and speak out for common sense, protecting quality medical care in the US and giving patients freedom to choose
THIS along with the fact that Terry McAuliffe has already said he'd go to the government shutdown mat to get a state exchange in Virginia. Unbelievable. Combine the chaos of thousands of people across Virginia losing their health insurance, we are going to add to that on the state level by forcing doctors to accept patients they can't afford to help? Unbelievable. Dark days are ahead, but there is still time. Three days to make sure this does not happen.
Democrats in Virginia will drive up health care costs, drive doctors out of the state, and then drive health care costs up even more because there will not be enough doctors practicing in the state.
“Muslim doctors and health care workers who aim to kill not heal - aiding and abetting global jihad by working in the US and abroad”
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3029
That strikes me as a good response to a demand that physicians act as slaves of our ruling class, at least until the next decree from the dictators.
Didn't take long for the Demonic Party scum to finally suggest their end game... government enslavement. Nobody saw this coming, did they? /sarc
This is what some folks might call one of them there litmus tests, wet finger in the air, ear to the ground, so on, and so forth. If Virginia can do it, then heck, mebbe’ good ol’ big-mamma gub-mint (the sow with a gazillion nipples) can start forcin’ doctors nationwide to accept them there gub-mint eentitlemint recipients. Don’t you just love it when the government forces people to do stuff? It’s all fun & games until somebody gets shipped off to the gulag, or until thirty percent of your doctors retire.
Ja, Kaitleen Murphy, you look MOZT FETCHING in zat snappy Nazi uniform! Vy, I zink we put YOU in charge of zee Doctor Compliance Ztrike Team!
The Roman emperor Diocletian came up with laws like that. Eventually, the Roman system of government faded away, but Europe was left with serfdom, which lasted in some locations into the 19th century.
It's always the same with these pukes. You must do this for common good, comrade. There is great leader, smile comrade. Great leader is ill, cry comrade. Cry more, comrade or else. Welcome to North Korea Virginia.
Retire?
Operate, you bastard. I SAID OPERATE.
Up against the wall, mo'fo!
This Virginia voter may have to break out the “Ain’ts”- style paper sack, based on recent and possibly near-future developments in my state.
My apologies, America... Virginia isn’t well right now.
AMA helped pass Obamacare. And now that it has been exposed as the destructive monstrocity it always was,
THE AMA STILL SUPPORTS IT!!!!!!!!
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/topics/affordable-care-act.page
Disgusting.
If You Have a Right,
To the Labor I Provide,
I Must Be Your Slave.
I know a doctor in Virginia who will just stop practicing if this comes to pass. She and her family will have to live a more modest lifestyle, but she will not take on the work, liability and stress of dealing with these patients for the paltry amount she would get from the government.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2207778-animal-farm-a-fairy-story?page=1
“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.” ---George Orwell, Animal Farm
OK ... so then all docs should refuse to service all politicians.
That's a great idea. And I'll tell you why. It will open the door for other, similar, laws.
For example, I've always wanted a fully equipped Ford F-150 truck. If there were a law forcing a dealer to accept any offer I made, presto, I'd have a brand new truck.
What could possibly go wrong with that scenario?
Charley Reese’s final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day.
It’s a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!
545 vs. 300,000,000 People -By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish;
to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators,
to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like
“the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from
doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
“...telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree,”
The problem with criticizing this Democrat idiot, is that you quickly expose the greater idiocy of all of Medicare/Medicaid as it is practiced today.
There are plenty of vociferous supporters of Medicare amongst so-called conservatives on this board.
There is nothing so stupid about this idiot Democrats proposal that is not equally stupid in the program itself.
Republicans, Democrats alike want Medicare - in fact DEMAND Medicare.
This candidate actually moves the debate a disturbingly miniscule amount - and we supposed conservatives pretend that this is a big deal - it’s not - not if we supposed conservatives on this board were not in vigorous opposition to the program before this suggestion.
We’re all socialists, some of us simply have not come to accept the obvious truth.
Well, sure, and who’s surprised by this?. It’s the standard mindset of liberals that if you don’t do what they want you to do, then by hell, they’ll FORCE you.
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