Healthcare - A Doctor's View

Written by John

President Obama said the A.M.A (American Medical Association)"...supports his healthcare program".

What President Obama isn't saying is that only 17% of the American physicians workforce belongs to the AMA.

Is it unfair and dishonest not to tell us the full truth in an issue this important?

Also not said by President Obama about Healthcare Bill: Across America, in or out of the AMA, doctors oppose the healthcare plan 2 to 1.

Is Obama's version of the truth mightily stretched - or cut down to a snippet so we get a TV snapshot of the real truth?

What Obama also hides is that: 45% of our precious, life-saving doctors are considering retiring if the healthcare bill is passed.

Does that sound like Physicians, with their advanced educations and exhaustive American University academics and OJT think Obama's a great thinker?

That's three things that change your view on things. It's like having a child around that thinks, no, believes not telling the full truth to the American public is not lying. Joe Wilson finally had enough during Obama's speech about how illegal immigrants will game the system under the healthcare bill. Joe Wilson called Obama a liar. Was Obama a liar? Was Obama lying to a nation just to win, regardless of the outcome?

And One More Thing: What does it say when Obama tells us that 47 million newly-insured will not stress out our healthcare system or create rationing? Well, you decide: add 47 million new patients to an existing system. You know what - lets put this in context:

What is a number like 47 million? Well, for one, Alaska has less than a half a million people and very roughly one physician per 600 people (year 2000 data from http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/statesummaries/alaska.htm)

So lets clear all the people and their own doctors from Alaska - the half million (actually its closer to somewhere between 300-400 thousand total state population) - and put them down on a tropical island - and stick the 47 MILLION in Alaska instead. BOOM. Look around. There are no doctors. There are no doctors. There is one hell of line of people waiting for just one doctor. That line of 47 million people stretches around the world, shoulder-to-shoulder (25,000 miles around the equator x 5280 feet per mile divided by 47 million people = 2.8 feet per person (shoulder to shoulder)). Now that's a line waiting for one physician to show up. A line of people, shoulder-to-shourlder, completely around the world - waiting for one doctor to treat them.

So lets take away doctors from Alaskans and send those doctors back to Alaska - to the 47 million people. The ratio of one doctor for six hundred Alaskans has changed now, that's certain. The new ratio is 47 million people divided about 700 doctors (to be on the conservative side). That's about 7 doctors for ever HALF A MILLION PEOPLE. 7 doctors per 500,000 people.

And it leaves the doctor's previous patients - yes, on their balmy tropical island - but with no medical care and dying like flies from common, treatable issues.

Is this fair? To tell us there will be no rationing, etc.?

I think the answer's pretty clear.

One More Thing: If, after Healthcare is passed, half the doctors QUIT out of disgust for his programs like they said they would, what will that do?

Just how gullible does Obama think we are now? He actually thinks the American public is stupid. Stupid. That's an insult to us all. Who will invest 16 years in medical school? Will we be forced to import doctors from sub-schooled countries such as Mexico to treat you? And will Obama create a monitary incentive plan for MD's and, of course, then control them. "Hey, I got yer paycheck here, kiddo. You work for the bureacracy now. And in order for us to fulfill our commitment to your fat paycheck we need to cut some corners. You know, the stuff we don't talk about because Palin gets all over it? Aw, com'mon. Give me a high-fiver. Is that a pout I see?. Give us a smile."

Give me, GIVE US oh liberals, another alternative. I'm listening. We are all listening.

And we can hear a pin drop. It's the lies, isn't it? He lied to you, too. It's a mess, I know.