Posted on 12/25/2009 1:23:37 PM PST by FromLori
Bingo! Now apply that reasoning to a myriad other situations, and see how the government tries (and often succeeds) in pitting citizens against one another, so as to distract them from the fact that the enemy is *the government*.
Pakistani ones. This is why a very significant percentage of doctors in Britain and Canada are from the Middle East and Asia. Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? Allahu Akbar!
Let me. Why are these people still alive let alone in power?? Must be the sheep in us.......
We need to hang politicians from lamp posts. It’s past time.
Ain’t no thang. They even let you watch it on TV.
Insanity.
Rationing is what the dems are using despite all their denials.
If I take my husband out of the country for treatment and pay for it myself, will that be forbidden?
European socialism.
These “medical home” provisions referenced in the US House plan disincentivizes primary care doctors form referring out patients to specialists. The obvious catch 22 for primary care provider is that they will still be held to the same high medical standards of care. This leaves them wide open to failure to diagnose lawsuits when they fail to order a laboratory test or MRI scan. Specialists provide a greater percentage of care than when this failed model was tried in the 1980s with HMOs. Patients will be denied a higher quality of care according to the specialist standard of care. Now what standard of care will trial lawyer demand for their “injured” clients?
The dilemma for primary care physicians will be your money or your licence.
How wreckcreational!
There’ll prolly be a steep tax on it.
Highly unlikely. There will be plenty of high quality offshore clinics with US doctors if 0bamacare goes through and becomes unchallenged law. You could probably even purchase an insurance policy let’s say in the Caymans or Costa Rica for offshore medical services. With 0bamacare, offshore services will continue to improve (and US health care deteriorates) as US doctors emigrate offshore and reputable hospitals and clinics emerge. If you wanted rapid access in the US for medical treatment out of pocket you probably could find a doctor to treat you (for basic services) as long as you used an alias (you could state that you are not a US citizen for example) and paid cash.
The free market will eventually prevail.
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Hey, you might not even get a sigmoidoscope and have to make due with a rectal blood test under 0bamacare depending on your age or usefulness to the collective.
My brother was treated in Belize and was pleased with the medical care.
He lives there on and off during the year.
Ping
Belize could indeed benefit as it is the only Central American English speaking country. 0bamacare will accelerate the outflow of US retirees offshore. We will have to look at the ratings for House Hunters International to spot this trend.
I see some of our best physicians, including specialists, departing the U.S. for practices in these locations.
It's funny. Communists never foresee the dictates of government causing the victims to pack up and leave on the next thing smokin'.
The Soviets had such a great thing going they had to build walls and stretch razor wire to try and keep people from getting the hell out of Dodge City.
I know that feeling all too well!
Waiting for the feds...
Wow.
Would you have your primary care doctor take out your appendix, even though they are not qualified to do the procedure? I hate this bill. It will lead to nothing but death and injury to patients.
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