Just you wait and wait and…

We all tried to warn the American people – we have marched and gone to town halls.

All of us have.

And I can’t tell you how proud I am to have marched right there with you. But there are people who don’t get it. Or do get it, more likely, but just want something for nothing. They want to be coddled and handed things because they are not proud enough to work for it.

Others want us to embrace the people coming from other countries illegally. Give them what they want and need without paying the price of learning the language or working to understand America through citizenship classes. Most people have probably not even thought about what that is all about – but why would someone coming here who is given everything for nothing come to appreciate what America is really all about?

Market forces will dictate what is going to happen here. And with the news that 30-45% of the doctors are looking to leave their profession if they have to deal with the bureaucracy and pay fixing – it is going to get worse than ever before.

Imagine this:

Bob goes to college for 8-9  years, paying 60-80 k per year to become a doctor. Assuming the best case, that would be 480,000.00 to learn how to save a life.

In that cost, he is paying for many tenured professors at his college to earn over 500,000.00 a year – just so you understand where this cost is coming from.

Then he goes to work, paying off his debt. But now, because the lawyers chase every rotten carcass of a lawsuit no matter how bad it stinks to high heaven, he has to pay six figures a year for malpractice insurance, and part of the “profits” of the clinic he works for has to go to the same.

Now, in the course of his work, he tells someone something that makes them mad, say a diagnosis they don’t want to hear. Instead of just going to another doctor, they sue him – frivolously, but hell, it doesn’t cost THEM anything. Bob spends 98,000.00 on legal fees to defend himself from a spurious charge for something that never happened.

Then the government steps in, and with implacable JUSTICE in their eyes tell him he earns too much money and that he will have to cut his rates or not get medicare patients, which with slow, creeping certainty is becoming a larger percentage of his clientele – due simply to more and more people becoming eligible and taking advantage of medicare – because more people are getting older. He thinks of the baby boom and grits his teeth.

Now the government comes back, telling Bob that we are going to put into place Medicare x 1000 and he is going to not be allowed to take as much money and that people are going to be switched to government care whether they like it or not.

Bob has made his money back enough to pay his debt and put a decent amount aside after lawsuits to retire – and he makes up his mind that after all he has done, the lives he has saved, the people he’s helped – he’s done enough. He knows the heartache of Medicare and sees the nightmare called Obamacare coming and knows the bureaucracy is going to be that much worse. He knows the professors and lawyers are going to be allowed to make their millions while the people who save the lives get punished.

He wonders what the world is coming to and starts really socking it away for when he retires. When Obamacare passes.

So let me ask some questions I asked in an email last night in reply to a liberal attack on a friend of mine writing a heartfelt newsletter he puts out:

If we cut medicare waste, fraud, theft, and graft wouldn’t we be able to offer more to the people who really need it?

If Government healthcare is so great, why don’t we just fix Medicare and offer it to everyone?

How are we protecting ourselves from hikes when WE pay the taxes and even Dick Durbin says we aren’t lowering costs – we are just slowing the rate of growth?

Another great question – law of supply and demand – if supply goes down and demand goes up, cost goes up and service often goes down. So in the real world model of what we are proposing, we are going to pay professors 6 – 7 figure salaries to teach doctors who find themselves often 600,000. in debt to make lower wages to serve 30,000,000 more people. We aren’t addressing a major cost factor in lawyers and bringing about tort reform and loser pays which would cost the COUNTRY nothing and save people a ton on insurance – states that have had that in effect have lowered insurance premiums.

Once the doctors who don’t want to work with the overwhelming bureaucracy leave the workforce and the people who want to become doctors don’t choose to do so because it will cost them more than they can make back only to have anything they make taken away by malpractice insurance the number of doctors per capita will decrease and with the number of patients on the rise by 30,000,000 it follows logically that the costs will go up and the service will go down. Just like in the states and countries that already have this model in place. It doesn’t work.

The problem is, once we pass it, we will end up destroying private health insurance companies, putting millions out of work and we’ll end up with a screwed up system and no safety net.

Brilliant idea.

And then Congress has your health in their hands.

An even better idea, no?

Here’s the article about the doctors retiring – just in case you think I am blowing the  numbers out of proportion:

Thanks to CNS News! Doctors leaving industry

PLEASE Help Us In Supporting Matthew Mccabe

I would like to take a moment out of my political life to thank Author Elizabeth Kilbride for going above and beyond the call of duty.

Please take a moment to read this press release from Father’s Press:

LEE SUMMIT, MO – Kilbride’s donation is aimed at helping to offset the overwhelming legal fees associated with defending three U.S. Navy SEALs – SO2 Matthew McCabe, SO2 Jonathan Keefe and SO1 Julio Huertas – who have been charged with abuse of a terrorist insurgent.

“Matt McCabe and his fellow SEALs have the best possible legal representation. The best comes with a price tag,” Kilbride said firmly. Mike Smitley, owner of Father’s Press Publishing, said, “Having been to Iraq with our warriors, then writing about them, Kilbride knows their sacrifices first-hand, which is why she wanted to do more than just verbally give her support. We intend to help these SEALs by providing them with two strategic weapons to help them fight their battle — a book to help educate their fellow Americans and some funds to help in their defense.”

“Ahmed Hashim Abed was the terrorist mastermind behind the attack against four American civilians outside of Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. As a member of the Al-Qaeda network, it’s obvious he has used lesson 18 from the AQ handbook, where it says ‘once captured, make false claims of abuse’. It appears he did just that by complaining to a Master-at-Arms. As a result, charges of abuse were levied against these three SEALs,” Kilbride said in their defense. “This situation is a National Security crisis and if we allow our warriors to be falsely accused by terrorist operatives, who brutally attacked our fellow Americans in Fallujah – dismembered, burned, and hung their bodies from a bridge – they will have won the war on terrorism. I won’t allow them to use our rules of engagement against our brave warriors so they can win,” she stated. The SEALs opted for a Court-Martial instead of accepting a ‘Captain’s Mast,’ which carries a lesser penalty, but can also, come with an implied acceptance of guilt. Kilbride stated, “They chose a Court-Martial in order to prove their innocence. Their honor and credibility is at stake, and no SEAL will accept their honor to be disgraced without a fight.”

“It’s going to cost our SEALs a large sum of money to prove their innocence,” said the CEO of Maritime Tactical Security, the managers of the Defense Fund. “While others sell t-shirts, pins and bumper stickers to raise money, Ms. Kilbride’s book is going to help educate while at the same time raising funds to help these brave warriors – it’s a Win-Win situation.”

David Lussier, creator of the Facebook support page, “Support the Navy SEALs who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed” said, “We are excited that Ms. Kilbride is offering to help this way. She has worked tirelessly on their behalf for several months with maintaining the support page, while raising awareness in the media. With more than 100,000 members on our support page, I know we can help raise a lot of money for the defense fund. Think about it, if all our members bought a book, the fund could have $400,000 in no time.”

When asked how every American can help these SEALs, Kilbride responded with a simple solution. “Type the word ‘SEAL’ into the special instructions box on the order form, when ordering your copy of ‘Soul of American Warrior’ through www.fatherspress.com website. It’s as simple as that. With each order, $4 will be donated to the “Navy SEAL Defense Fund” to help raise funds to offset their legal expenses. I am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these brave Navy SEALs because they captured the man who killed four American Contractors. I know first-hand the struggles our warriors endure while in a combat zone. Their mission was both admirable and honorable; they did nothing to dishonor their brotherhood. I’m pleased to be able to offer them a tool to educate their supporters on what it’s like to enter a war zone and survive and at the same time help to raise funds for their defense,” Kilbride responded.

Find out more about this situation by visiting the “Support the Navy SEALs who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed” on Facebook and order your copy of “Soul of American Warrior” today at www.fatherspress.com, if you would like to donate to the Navy Seals Defense Fund, please visit http://www.maritimetacticalsecurity.com.

I just want to say, please, please help these three SEALs – as a veteran myself, I can guarantee SO 2 pay doesn’t pay for a top notch law firm. And for the skeptics out there – we don’t get a penny. I wouldn’t if they offered. There are some things greater than money.

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