Thursday, October 18, 2012

Do people really care?



Obama care is a big step in the wrong direction.  People are not looking at this bill the right way. The reason for that is because it will soon raise taxes and impact the hospitals even more than what they are.  Is it ok to put more stress on doctors that can only see so many patients in one day?  Is it ok to make people wait even longer than what they have to just to see a doctor?  In this article, “Top Five Reasons Obama Care is Bad,” it talks about how in 2014 Obama Care will dump 19.5 million patients to Medicaid.   This will place an even greater strain on physicians to treat patients and doctors will be faced with decisions to not see patients that have this Medicaid or except even more patients and lower the cost.  If you have ever been hurt in any way where you had to go see a doctor it is not like you just walk right in and see them, there is a waiting time.  If it is to the extent where you have to go to the emergency room how much longer will you now have to wait till you can see the doctor.  Because the emergency rooms are already ridiculously impacted.  A good example that I have in my life is last year, my buddy Shane on my baseball team got cleated during a baseball game and it totally gashed open his arm.  When he went to the emergency room to get stitches he waited two hours.  After he got called in to get stitched up they didn’t even have a room to take him in to because it was so impacted, they sat him in the hall way and stitched him up right there.  So having the knowledge that he didn’t even have a room to go in, how is it possible that we are going to be able to add 19.5 million people.  If everyone is going to be entitled to Medicaid, shouldn’t everyone also be entitled to free food and shelter?  If you look at Los Angeles alone there are 73,000 homeless people.  Now if all of them have free Medicaid who is going to be pay for their bill and when they get treated they go right back into the environment where they got the illness.  Whether it was from lack of nutrition or being out in the cold they are going to end right back in the hospital a month later.  So now add 19.5 million people and tell me how this is going to work without having to raise taxes and barrow more money, putting us more in debt than what we already are.  Another thing is this bill does is destroy the doctor-patient relationship.  Doctors will now have to focus more on how government wants them to rule and regulate then to rather than the specific needs of the patient.  Doctors will soon be like UPS workers having to rush patients in and of their offices in order to treat more people.

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