My wife has been waiting at the doctor’s office this morning for a little over 5 hours to see someone about a prescription for pink eye. I’m wondering how bad it is going to be when we’re having to wait for Dr. Obama to treat her. Since she already has a pre-existing condition, I’m concerned that she’ll even be able to see someone at all.
Greg. Your catchy title drew me in. I recently had knee surgery and had a follow up appointment for 1pm. Thankfully the hospital called me and said the doctor is behind and asked if I could come in for 330 instead. I only waited 5 minutes so I thanked the girls at the front desk for kindly not making me sit for 2.5 hours. The previous appt. I kindly sat for 1hr 20mins.
Greg, c’mon let’s find the capitalist opportunity here! http://www.BlackMarketDocs.com is available, the tag line could be “Care for cash, no waiting.”
I don’t get it, medicine is already highly bureaucratic and every problem that people perceive Obama will supposedly cause is already there. What exactly will a government health insurance plan, or a simple requirement to have insurance, do that’s so bad that’s not already a problem today?
> What exactly will a government health insurance plan, or a simple requirement to have insurance, do that’s so bad that’s not already a problem today?
First, my objective, always, is to get government out of everything, especially commerce.
Second, the easiest “where’s the harm?” argument is this one: Socialized health care turns entire nations of once-free people into whining welfare slaves. Even ignoring the fact that socialism necessarily always ends at mass murder and mass starvation, the progressive infantilization of humanity is contrary to the interests of human beings.
Getting the government out of everything is impossible, since to take your logic further, we don’t need antitrust regulation, laws against insider trading, etc. That’s the point of the government, create regulations that for the greater good.
I agree that too much control is bad, but something things need to be regulated, and medical care, which is a vital human need, is one of them.
Second, you and many other people hear “government regulated” and you automatically equate it to socialism and communism. This is a knee-jerk reaction. Our government has no plans to actually administer medicine, or control it. It’s trying to create an insurance plan, which is different.
Besides, if you want to talk about socialized medicine, we already have health insurance companies pay doctors on a scale that’s pretty much determined by medicare. We have bums off the street come in for free ER treatment and the taxpayers are forced to pay for it. Insurance companies strictly regulate who gets what procedure. And so on. As you can see the bureaucracy is already there, except decisions are made by a party with an ulterior motive of profit.
Hey, Jim. Sounds like you need your own weblog. In any case, it is sufficient for me to say that I disagree with everything you’re saying. That we are being devoured by cockroaches does not imply that we are doomed to be devoured by cockroaches.
> That’s the point of the government, create regulations that for the greater good.
Believe it or not, I was not thinking of you when I posted Propositions Three and Seven just now. Serendipity is where you find it…
It’s really easy to look at all of the government entities that we already have in our lives. The DMV, USPS, Social Security, Medicare. These entities are managed so amazingly why not give them total control of health care makes perfect sense.
Hmm…. Canada is trying to un-do their socialized medicine program because they realize it doesn’t work.
It’s one thing to not learn from our history and not repeat the same mistakes from the past. But now we’re taking it to a whole new level. Not learning from the mistakes of other nations that are in front of our face now.
This is about “Power, Money, and Total Control” if it was about insuring the uninsured it would be 50 pages not 1100. Simple solutions to common sense problems.
The majority of today’s politicians are not about common sense solutions or solving problems they are about getting re-elected.
Mark Madsen says:
My wife has been waiting at the doctor’s office this morning for a little over 5 hours to see someone about a prescription for pink eye. I’m wondering how bad it is going to be when we’re having to wait for Dr. Obama to treat her. Since she already has a pre-existing condition, I’m concerned that she’ll even be able to see someone at all.
October 14, 2009 — 12:52 pm
Robert Worthington says:
Greg. Your catchy title drew me in. I recently had knee surgery and had a follow up appointment for 1pm. Thankfully the hospital called me and said the doctor is behind and asked if I could come in for 330 instead. I only waited 5 minutes so I thanked the girls at the front desk for kindly not making me sit for 2.5 hours. The previous appt. I kindly sat for 1hr 20mins.
October 14, 2009 — 4:04 pm
Al Lorenz says:
Greg, c’mon let’s find the capitalist opportunity here! http://www.BlackMarketDocs.com is available, the tag line could be “Care for cash, no waiting.”
October 15, 2009 — 12:00 pm
Barry Cunningham says:
The people wanted change and now they have it. I just wonder if this is how they thought it would be defined?
October 16, 2009 — 10:00 pm
jim says:
I don’t get it, medicine is already highly bureaucratic and every problem that people perceive Obama will supposedly cause is already there. What exactly will a government health insurance plan, or a simple requirement to have insurance, do that’s so bad that’s not already a problem today?
October 18, 2009 — 8:31 am
Greg Swann says:
> What exactly will a government health insurance plan, or a simple requirement to have insurance, do that’s so bad that’s not already a problem today?
First, my objective, always, is to get government out of everything, especially commerce.
Second, the easiest “where’s the harm?” argument is this one: Socialized health care turns entire nations of once-free people into whining welfare slaves. Even ignoring the fact that socialism necessarily always ends at mass murder and mass starvation, the progressive infantilization of humanity is contrary to the interests of human beings.
October 18, 2009 — 9:35 am
jim says:
Getting the government out of everything is impossible, since to take your logic further, we don’t need antitrust regulation, laws against insider trading, etc. That’s the point of the government, create regulations that for the greater good.
I agree that too much control is bad, but something things need to be regulated, and medical care, which is a vital human need, is one of them.
Second, you and many other people hear “government regulated” and you automatically equate it to socialism and communism. This is a knee-jerk reaction. Our government has no plans to actually administer medicine, or control it. It’s trying to create an insurance plan, which is different.
Besides, if you want to talk about socialized medicine, we already have health insurance companies pay doctors on a scale that’s pretty much determined by medicare. We have bums off the street come in for free ER treatment and the taxpayers are forced to pay for it. Insurance companies strictly regulate who gets what procedure. And so on. As you can see the bureaucracy is already there, except decisions are made by a party with an ulterior motive of profit.
October 18, 2009 — 9:55 am
Greg Swann says:
Hey, Jim. Sounds like you need your own weblog. In any case, it is sufficient for me to say that I disagree with everything you’re saying. That we are being devoured by cockroaches does not imply that we are doomed to be devoured by cockroaches.
> That’s the point of the government, create regulations that for the greater good.
Believe it or not, I was not thinking of you when I posted Propositions Three and Seven just now. Serendipity is where you find it…
October 18, 2009 — 10:45 am
Greg Dallaire says:
It’s really easy to look at all of the government entities that we already have in our lives. The DMV, USPS, Social Security, Medicare. These entities are managed so amazingly why not give them total control of health care makes perfect sense.
Hmm…. Canada is trying to un-do their socialized medicine program because they realize it doesn’t work.
It’s one thing to not learn from our history and not repeat the same mistakes from the past. But now we’re taking it to a whole new level. Not learning from the mistakes of other nations that are in front of our face now.
This is about “Power, Money, and Total Control” if it was about insuring the uninsured it would be 50 pages not 1100. Simple solutions to common sense problems.
The majority of today’s politicians are not about common sense solutions or solving problems they are about getting re-elected.
October 18, 2009 — 8:14 pm