re: #204 HoosierHoops

So let me get this straight.. My premiums go down..The quality care of my doctor will go down…( not sure why..But maybe he secretly hates me)
My waiting time will go up…Cause he will have so many patients he won’t be able to afford nursing help..Am i following you?
I pay 38 dollars less federal taxes a month under Obama than I did under Bush…I’m willing to give up 37 bucks a month so Walter can get his free pills or whatever…Not a penny more…

Your doctor will not be followed into medical school by a comparably talented successor. They’re cutting medicare payments to below the break-even point. Who wants to go into that kind of a line of work?

Also, they propose to require that all nursing and medical schools hire and graduate people on a strict proportional basis to their numbers in the population. That’s bound to cut into the ranks of Jewish doctors, say, and the ones who will be admitted in their place will have had MCAT scores that place them well below the ten-percentile mark among those now rejected for admission. [I know this from direct report of relatives who worked for a medical school, and there is ample published proof of this assertion. The Backe case brought a lot of the evidence to light, for instance.]

How is this even open to argument? Of course quality goes down when the federal government takes over. Anyone with experience at DMV, post office, or trying to straighten something out with the IRS intuitively understands this point. Government, and entities that may as well be part of the government, such as today’s GM, aren’t in business to tend to the needs and desires of their customers.

Oh, and you’re paying far more taxes than you realize. The government is running an enormous deficit. Your share is probably about $5000 a year. The deficit spending comes out of somebody’s pocket, somewhere. Just who ends up paying is a bit like musical chairs, and you never know who won’t be able to find a seat when the music stops, but somebody’s gonna pay. You cannot expect to be the one who escapes paying.