Another invitation apparently lost in the mail was that for
Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA) – not only one of the handful
of doctors in Congress, but also chair of the influential,
right-of-center Republican Study Group.
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There are ~12 doctors in Congress. Congress presumably represents the people as much as appointed members of the administration, as opposed to elected members of the administration.
Any democrat would have to think as much. The question is why The Democrat himself didn’t meet with the elected doctors in Congress. Wouldn’t a true democrat want to know what they think? I voted for the president, and find this exclusion of elected physicians disturbing.
I find it reprehensible that the administration would not ask physicians in congress to participate on any debate on health care. This shows a total disregard to the professionals that provide health care and to those who have committed their lives to taking care of people. I am appalled.
Dear Dr. Butler:
You voted for the president, apparently without realizing he was, is and always will be a bureaucrat who believes in top-down, central planning rather than the value of the interpersonal doctor/ patient relationship. All of his rhetoric has been about saving money by making the system more efficient. He’s never spoken about looking into why our system produces “sick care”, not healthcare. Our system produces bad medical care because it’s dominated by Big Pharma and insurance companies and government bureaucrats and ignores the importance of dedicated doctors’ time with a patient to help improve patient’s lifestyle. More efficient bad medicine, is still bad medicine! Now he’ll bankrupt the country provided this same bad care ro everyone.
Why are you surprised at this? BarackO is doing exactly what he has always said he would do (at least before he toned it down for the purpose of getting elected). He is all about centrally controlled healthcare and he has admitted that what he really like to see is a single payer system with the single payer and regulator being the federal government. And when the time comes to pay for all this his solution is “shared sacrifice”, ie, eat the rich and when they are all consumed, eat the slightly less rich. He is a very smooth operator and pretends to want to listen to opposing viewpoints, but listening is the end of it and he will not be compromising with those opposing viewpoints. His ideal system is socialism if not communism. Remember his hero is Saul Alinsky, an outright communist. If he can do it he will have every aspect of the country, not just healthcare, totally socialized in 4 to 8 years.
May God help us all. Off the subject of health care, rampant inflation is in all our futures. My advice, store up all the old non collectable silver coins you can afford along with a few guns and plenty of ammo, start a garden and learn how to grow your own food and enjoy it.
Doctors are the one group they especially DO NOT want to hear from. They think we can be used as their sock puppets, and actually, they have partially gotten away with just that. Physicians need to get their financial houses in order, and get out of this terrible, top-down system, where the patient is like a cat owned by the government, and when the cat gets sick, and the vet (doctor) says it will cost x many dollars to get the cat well, the owner (government) says “Just put it to sleep.”
Also, the patients must wise up. The elderly people have had a wonderful run of spending tax dollars anytime they have even a small medical problem, but no country can last when some citizens can dispose of the fruits of the labors of other citizens at will.
We need to force the politicians to obey the Constitution, by continually hounding them, and bouncing them out of office. Call 202-224-3121, and ask for your Senators and Rep, or better yet, call the National Legal and Policy Center at 703-237-1970, give them a $50.00 or even $25.00 donation, and get a copy of their book, the United States Congress Directory, so you can place a direct call to every bozo there who is throwing your wealth down the drain, and presuming to practice medicine in your name.
Every law should apply equally to all. No laws just for old people, or just for farmers not raising pigs, etc,etc,etc
I did not vote for Obama and activily campaigned against him because I believed what he said when it was consistent with his past record. What he is doing and how he is doing it is no surprise. He wants to expand government control and power. Already government control and power in health care is greater than any other sector of the economy. If they are able to gain absolute control, they will have a blue print to do the other sectors to move us to a central planning state. Central planning, communism, socialism has never worked and was never invisioned by our founders as they wrote the Declaration of Independence and our present constitution. In fact, they opposed communism or socialism and had no place for it in our government. If we do not act to restrict our political ruling class with the chains of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our children and grandchildren will be subjected to poverty of spirit and of the pocket book. We have a lot of work to do to repair the damage done to our Constitution over the past 100 yrs.
Sage advice, gardens, guns and ammo.
Our healthcare is the best in the world, despite the efforts of insurance companies to destroy it. I have been in private practice treating patients full time for over thirty years and I have watched the erosion of our healthcare in so many ways. Doctors have suffered greatly and I hear nothing from you about this incredible devastation. Empathy is the quality that makes our system work and the impersonal, critical, robotic atmosphere in which doctors work makes the expression of this caring quality so difficult to maintain.
Insurance companies are in the busiess to make money and the quality of care is important only in that aspect of patient care. Render only the minimum of care necessary to make the maximum of money.
You have told us over and over again how much your mother worried about paying her medical bills. Her doctors too were very likely also worried and upset.
One of the major costs of medical care is the cost of the insurance, both health insurance and malpractice insurance.
May I suggest that you look at the transference feelings associated with your mother’s care and your anger at its cost.
Tax “witholding” was and is an illegitimate concept which enabled government to take vast sums of money without the citizen realizing it, and NOW we’ve let insurance companies do the same thing. They couldn’t sell their inferior and overpriced products on the free market, so they got government to allow employers to provide insurance in lieu of wages. Only the return to a REAL free market can restore quality health care at truly affordable prices. Our present (and proposed future) system destroys initiative, innovation, and individualized care, in favor of a ‘veterinary’ style of ‘herd medicine’ – which continues to increase in cost despite the alleged intentions of the government to hold costs down. As usual, anything you want destroyed, hand over to politicians to ‘improve’ – it is just sad to see that being done to our health care system, and education system, etc…