A few days ago, I wrote about some Democrat senator or other lamenting about her visits to France and Spain where they have guaranteed health care for all, yet still not completely here in the U.S.
At the time, I noted that although it’s true regarding the right to free services, I suspected that the supply and quality might be lacking because the system’s premise makes no economic sense. To me, it’s like the store that advertises free birdseed, but when a customer asks for some, they’re always out of stock.
Furthermore, in any case regarding supply and demand, quality of service or product, or any other aspect of commerce, the last person on earth to ask for help or advice would be a politician. These people’s major, and most often, only concern is the appeal of their words while promise fulfillment is a completely alien concept.
In that regard, an article today on foxnews.com/politics by Jim Angle goes a long way toward proving that premise, whereas he writes that: “Some 10,000 baby boomers will retire every day for the next 19 years, including many doctors. But at the same time, more people will be looking for health providers under ObamaCare -- meaning there could be a potentially wide numbers gap between those seeking treatment and those available to provide it.”
Mr. Angle then quotes Dr. Jeff Cain, President of the American Academy of Family Physicians, who explains: "We have an increasing population, we have more Americans that are getting older that need more health care. And with the 30 million Americans that are newly insured with the affordable health care act, more people are looking for primary care."
At the same time, while medical colleges predict a huge shortage of physicians, more than 90,000 by 2020 and 130,000 or more by 2025, Cain notes that “Almost a third of family doctors in rural America are thinking about retiring in the next five years."
However, as dire as the statistics appear, there’s no doubt that the new health care tax is making the situation worse as noted by Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, who added that on top of retiring baby boomer physicians, "there are a lot of doctors who are just so frustrated; today with all the bureaucracy involved in taking care of patients that they're retiring early."
But it’s Dr. Ramin Oskoui, president of the medical staff at Sibley Hospital in Washington, who put it best by saying: "one of the great misconceptions about ObamaCare is that just because you have health insurance, you'll therefore get adequate health care and you'll have access to it. I think nothing could be further from the truth."
As for myself, while Dr. Oskoui confirmed my point perfectly, I think his comments address only part of the subject. Because although health care’s his issue, the problem goes far deeper than that.
If you take a step back and look at the overall situation, health care’s only one facet of a far greater problem. Because this is a case where a politician stepped into an issue he knows zero about, learned nothing more, bulled his way into the middle and for political purposes only, killed the finest medical system that’s ever existed.
Consequently, in order to score points with a destitute segment of his constituency, he simply created another vehicle for redistribution. And as is the case of all aspects of socialism, the concept can’t sustain in the future, never has and never will. But, as with all else done by this administration, if it gets more votes, it never matters who or what gets killed in the process.
That’s it for today folks.
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