Neal. I think that one reason they fail to address the facts is that in order to respond to facts, one must be willing to dig deeper than is often comfortable or expedient in order to get and to understand those facts.These days, it’s so easy to receive information as soundbites from those who themselves do not study the history or facts of a situation but accept what… Read More they are told by their peers, and what is – for lack of a better word – the politically correct thing to believe. It’s a shame but it “is what it is.” This is why I say it’s so important to communicate the facts continually, and in a way that people will be open to hearing them instead of dismissing them. Difficult job to be sure and we are certanly fightlng an uphill battle in terms of regaining our liberty and actually helping the people in our society who most need our help.

I am just so curious as to why advocates for nationalized health care fair to address these excellent points.

It amazes me.

Liberty is a genie that never goes back in the bottle.

As convoluted as our system is, if it goes the way of Universal Health Care, I predict another country will become the beacon of Capitalism or a Black Market (or Grey Market) will open up for Health Care.

I must say, I see an INCREDIBLE Exodus of Capital and Innovators from the United States!

Without a sound philosophy backing our infrastructure, there is absolutely no faith in our markets.

-D

Excellent!

I read something the other day that was interesting to me:

In one of the medical magazines I receive monthly, it stated that most doctors spend an average of 4 hours a week trying to “jump through the hoops that the government has in place, now”, AND the avergage amount of money spent by doctors each year, individually, to try to handle all the government generated red-tape is about $70,000.00 a year.

The insurance companies that follow the government’s lead are wreaking havoc on healthcare, too.

I wish we could all think about the following for a moment:

A surgeon friend of mine told me the other day that one of his patients went to the emergency room about six months ago because of severe abdominal pain. My friend has been a surgeon for thirty years, so when he “feels” that an abdominal pain is an emergency, he is right and will take them to surgery regardless of whether he has “approval” or not.

I don’t know how he “knows” these things, quickly, but he does. The patient had a mesenteric thrombosis that was cutting off the blood supply to part of the intestine. He saved the patient’s life and the patient went home in five days.

Six months later, he still has not been paid by medicare for the surgery, and he asked me, “Can you guess the reason why I will not be paid?”

He was told that it was because he did not do a colonoscopy first!

And that’s what happens when an outside agency that can not evaluate the patient’s face, heart rate, breathing, etc. decides what needs to be done.

Some doctors will have a few cases like the above, where they don’t get paid, and begin to second-guess themselves on what is the best thing to do. And do it quickly. To save a life.

My heart’s desire is that we can regain the “heart” of healthcare. From what I’ve witnessed, already, I don’t see the government putting the “heart” back into healthcare.

Anyway, I look forward to “hearing” more about what you have to “say”…Always.

Pamela