Posted on 12/15/2012 4:14:00 PM PST by neverdem
A few years ago, my small local hospital asked a Senate staffer if she could assist them in obtaining federal money for a new building. So she did, expediting the process by which that particular corner of northern New Hampshire was deemed to be “under-served” and thus eligible for the fed gravy. At the ribbon-cutting, she was an honored guest, and they were abundant in their praise. Alas, in the fullness of time, the political pendulum swung, her senator departed the scene, and she was obliged to take a job out of state.
Last summer, she returned to the old neighborhood and thought she’d look for a doctor. The sweet old guy with the tweed jacket in the neatly painted cape on Main Street had taken down his shingle and retired. Most towns in the North Country now have fewer doctors than they did in the 19th century, and the smaller towns have none. The Yellow Pages lists more health insurers than physicians, which would not seem to be an obvious business model. So she wound up going to the health center she’d endowed so lavishly with your tax dollars just a few years earlier...
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I suspect the best and brightest will set up ops in the Caribbean, out of US govt control but easily accessed.
Thank God I’ve got enough money to get there and pay myself.
I was amazed at the utter blindness of those who actually thought that “The Affordable Health Care Act” actually had some reason to be named that. Many seemed to believe that it would mean free health care for all and were astounded when I told them that it would require anyone who did not have employer furnished coverage to buy health insurance and there would be penalties for those who did not. I also told them that if this monstrosity passed and survived to be put into effect that it would in fact mean no real health care for anyone except a few at the very top with everyone else having to pay in one way or another for something they would most certainly not receive. They thought I was as crazy as an outhouse mouse! I wonder if they will ever remember what I told them when they are waiting a year to see some nurse practitioner with an unpronounceable name who speaks with an incomprehensible accent and prescribes some drug they cannot get and which probably would do them no good if they did.
I think I will see if I can find an old mountain woman who still knows the old home remedies. I certainly won’t get any help from the so called “MAINSTREAM MEDICINE” practitioners.
“Single payer or not, it is so not going to work.”
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Oh, it’ll work alright! It will accomplish at least one of the goals on the Georgia Guidestones, you know the one about reducing the population?
Well said. Bravo.
” We will soon be like Britain: you get the NHS, or if you have enough money, your own private doctor. “
Not *JUST* if you have enough money. You ALSO need to get *permission* from the NHS to do that - I heard recently.
(probably greasing palms will work - ok for those with $)
That's nonsense! Eyewash! Balderdash! Sparky Barky himself told us we could keep our own healthcare insurance if we wanted to! So there!
"Health care is the keystone of the arch of Soviet power." -- V.I. Lenin
Similar, yes, but they are serious as a heart attack about it. You need it for everything.
Our family doc quit to take a job with a veterans group-—but I’m sure he just wanted out of the regulation that’s coming.
“but I’m sure he just wanted out of the regulation that’s coming.”
Yes, I think doctos are leaving private practice and going with groups so whoever runs the group can do all the paperwork. We have entered a new world of crap in many parts of our lives.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops STILL supports Obamacare. The Pope has been sceptical of national bishops’ conferences for decades. He needs to be besieged with letters begging him to abolish them—or at least OURS. This evil, anti-Catholic, pro-totalitarian organization needs to be SHUT DOWN.
For ninety bucks at Walgreens, she can get a health screening with an NP at her convenience.
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Well it sort of depends on your goals, if your goal is to reduce the population it will work just fine.
Every time I read or listen to Steyn I feel smarter
So you dumped your doctor and the new doctor dumped you and you're complaining about loyalty?
Not really trying to put you down; this is a cultural thing...to believe we are entitled to something from someone else that we don't ourselves provide for another person...
Particularly with doctors, it's like they're our parents and when economic reality hits them they're supposed to behave sacrificially.
Love the name Marcella. It's Raggedy Ann's little girl...
Somehow, you misunderstood what happened. I had my doctor for 16 years. He just went with a concierge group and sent us a letter we were not his patients anymore unless we joined the new group at a cost of $1,650.
See, he dumped me and the rest of his patients. I had to find a new doctor, which I now have.
Ah, I thought two docs involved. Never mind. The concierge thing will probably not work out for your previous doc.
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