VT-Chicklit
Lovin' The Homestead
We currently have a ratio of over 400 people per doctor here in the US. Other first world nations have a much lower ratio of patients to doctors. Most are around 300 patients per doctor or less. The reality is that there will not be enough doctors to cover the flood of new people accessing the system and I dont mean those who are legitamately sick with illnesses that require a doctors care.
When something is free or nearly so, we tend to use it more. An example of this is people who have insurance which will cover most things like check ups or minor illnesses such as colds and sniffles especially in childrern, bumps, bruises and so on. They tend to go to the doctor for these things. People who do not have insurance think twice about it and do just fine without this type visit. What will happen when everyone wants to go for such trivial things because they are now covered and there for "FREE"? People with legitamate illnesses that really require a doctors care will be placed on long waiting lists along with those whose illnesses do not really require a doctors care. This is unintended rationing. It doesnt have to be written into the bill inorder to be fact! If you are lucky enough to reach the top of the list before you get better, get worse or die, you will get treated.
This also goes for hospitals stays, elective and non-elective surgeries, both preventative screenings as well as tests needed to detirmine your illness when you are already ill. The system will be swamped. People who really need care will be unable to get care quickly. Many will die because of this. Today, if you are really sick you can get care. You may come out of it oweing a huge bill, you might loose your house, go bankrupt or . . . part of your bill might be written off and paid for (through higher premiums) by someone else who has insurance. At least you will have gotten the care you needed and you will be alive. Under Obama Care, it is a crap shoot! Maybe you get the care you need before your illness takes your life, maybe you will get the expensive tests you need in a timely manner, maybe you will be allowed the expensive drugs you need to keep you alive . . . or maybe not! I think I would rather take a chance on loosing everything because of catastrophic health care costs (which by the way are easily paid for with an inexpensive catastrophic health insurance policy not allowed under the Obama Plan), than take a chance on all the stars aligning, so that I get the critical care that I need in a timely manner if I get cancer or some other horrible disease under Obama Care.
Obama Care is great if you are healthy and dont need much medical care. It will be a death sentence to many who get cancer, have liver failure, heart disease, or other catastrophic illnesses. These people will die waiting on a list! To see this, check out the stats for these diseases in countries with "Socialized Medicine". You will see, on a whole we do better on the "big stuff" than they do.
Our life expectancy is shorter because of our life style not because of our medical system. We smoke too much, drink too much, eat unhealthily, we have too much gun violence. It is hard to save someone with a gun shot wound to the head or heart, or someone who drove while drunk and totaled his vehicle as well as the one he hit, and so on. Dont blame our system for things that are our fault. Obama Care does not truely address the real issues and will only make medical care worse. The issue is cost and I would rather have a cost issue that an access issue! You may think health care is expensive now, the true cost will be much higher under Obama Care. It could be your life>
When something is free or nearly so, we tend to use it more. An example of this is people who have insurance which will cover most things like check ups or minor illnesses such as colds and sniffles especially in childrern, bumps, bruises and so on. They tend to go to the doctor for these things. People who do not have insurance think twice about it and do just fine without this type visit. What will happen when everyone wants to go for such trivial things because they are now covered and there for "FREE"? People with legitamate illnesses that really require a doctors care will be placed on long waiting lists along with those whose illnesses do not really require a doctors care. This is unintended rationing. It doesnt have to be written into the bill inorder to be fact! If you are lucky enough to reach the top of the list before you get better, get worse or die, you will get treated.
This also goes for hospitals stays, elective and non-elective surgeries, both preventative screenings as well as tests needed to detirmine your illness when you are already ill. The system will be swamped. People who really need care will be unable to get care quickly. Many will die because of this. Today, if you are really sick you can get care. You may come out of it oweing a huge bill, you might loose your house, go bankrupt or . . . part of your bill might be written off and paid for (through higher premiums) by someone else who has insurance. At least you will have gotten the care you needed and you will be alive. Under Obama Care, it is a crap shoot! Maybe you get the care you need before your illness takes your life, maybe you will get the expensive tests you need in a timely manner, maybe you will be allowed the expensive drugs you need to keep you alive . . . or maybe not! I think I would rather take a chance on loosing everything because of catastrophic health care costs (which by the way are easily paid for with an inexpensive catastrophic health insurance policy not allowed under the Obama Plan), than take a chance on all the stars aligning, so that I get the critical care that I need in a timely manner if I get cancer or some other horrible disease under Obama Care.
Obama Care is great if you are healthy and dont need much medical care. It will be a death sentence to many who get cancer, have liver failure, heart disease, or other catastrophic illnesses. These people will die waiting on a list! To see this, check out the stats for these diseases in countries with "Socialized Medicine". You will see, on a whole we do better on the "big stuff" than they do.
Our life expectancy is shorter because of our life style not because of our medical system. We smoke too much, drink too much, eat unhealthily, we have too much gun violence. It is hard to save someone with a gun shot wound to the head or heart, or someone who drove while drunk and totaled his vehicle as well as the one he hit, and so on. Dont blame our system for things that are our fault. Obama Care does not truely address the real issues and will only make medical care worse. The issue is cost and I would rather have a cost issue that an access issue! You may think health care is expensive now, the true cost will be much higher under Obama Care. It could be your life>
Great Post, VT-Chicklit! 
