DRScoundrels

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