This is all very bad news for health care workers. My sister is a nurse and she says some doctors she works with say their plan was to retire if the bill passed which is what happened. When we all have insurance but cannot get health care what is the government going to do?
Didn’t you hear? The Federal Government is now the sole provider of student loans, which means that when doctors start retiring they will offer extremely great deals to students to go to medical school so that there will be doctors.
Oh, wait…that means the students would have to be intelligent enough to make it through medical school *and* the salary they expect to get paid upon graduation would have to make it worth their while.
he’ll say it’s Bush’s fault
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Republicans are remarkable. We have a far more radical ”socialized” healthcare in Sweden than Obamacare implies, and we have very minor complaint. Still republicans can’t accept that it primarily brings positive change. Even people on the right of the political spectrum in Europe show dread at the will and effort of republicans to reject Obamacare.
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Citizen of Sweden. My views vary inbetween socialism and socialliberalism, as I’ve not yet settled a tenacious political opinion.
He probably will not be in office when that happens — but it will happen.
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A few HMOs should go down, their costs have been ridiculous for decades. $200 for one aspirin?
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I agree, he will blame it on Bush and then tax us all more.
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The government will just use that as an excuse to nationalize the rest of the health care industry and the government will probably just train a bunch of younger doctors to replace the old higher paid ones. I have a feeling there won’t be many specialists available in a system like that though.
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I’m sure he personally could care less about what happens to the American people just so long as he turns us into the communist dictatorship of his childhood dreams as a boy in Kenya.
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Then you can’t get care and die soon.
It’s the equivalent of you paying your 30 year mortgage in 22 yrs.
Longevity in life is counter productive to the services you receive from social security and Medicare once you hit retirement age.
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Didn’t you hear? The Federal Government is now the sole provider of student loans, which means that when doctors start retiring they will offer extremely great deals to students to go to medical school so that there will be doctors.
Oh, wait…that means the students would have to be intelligent enough to make it through medical school *and* the salary they expect to get paid upon graduation would have to make it worth their while.
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Some doctors will retire. Some will quit. More will be available to take their place.
What will you say when you, or a loved one, get diagnosed with cancer and no longer have to worry about hitting your lifetime maximum benefit within the first six months of treatment?
A doctor who specifically retires to avoid treating people because of their insurance carrier is no doctor I would want to see anyway.
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Go bankrupt? By not having to pay for people who come into the emergency room and don’t pay, or by not getting to charge $100 for an aspirin? Your sister better start looking for a new job; pretty soon they will be importing Chinese nurses who are better trained and will work for 1/10 as much.
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Some of the premier medical institutions in the world have already been struggling for years here in the U.S, cutting back on services provided by the doctors and substituting less qualified staff, etc. Smaller health care facilities such as nursing homes have been cutting costs and laying off workers for over a decade. All the while their invoices have been increasing along with insurance costs, even as the average American has seen benefits from their employers cut or their contributions going up…add to that the staggering incompetence of some HMOs, rising drug costs…the list of problems goes on and on.
Seems to me the health care system was already bankrupt in this country. Will health care reform solve all the problems? No-will it make some worse? I don’t know, maybe and I am concerned about that. I’m also concerned that the feds will start printing more and more money to cover the costs and inflation will take off again-of course, that should help all the people who are underwater on their mortgages and maybe retired folks who have been trying to live off the interest on their savings, which has been non-existent for nine years now.
I think we need to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to the state of the economy and not worry as much about what Obama will say if things go haywire-which is little more than a snide way to blame problems that his administration is trying to solve on him. And some doctors may retire-but a lot of experienced doctors and hospitals were consulted on reform and helped shape it-the Republicans had their chance to debate the issue and many who did saw their ideas contribute positively to reform. I’m more upset with the balance of the GOP who just said NO instead of engaging in the debate with contributions and ideas than I am with reform itself or the Democrats, and I’m no huge fan of the Dems.
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