Saw this link on Drudge from the Mason Conservative: “Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients”
Reading it, a host of thoughts flooded my mind of Dem’s absolute inability to grasp how the real world works and their continual shortsightedness about anything having to do with commerce or even the most basic aspects of economics.
Consequently, I was preparing to write my response, pointing out how, after the devastation to come in the nation’s health care system due to the new tax law, forcing doctors into further financial losses would decrease the number of practitioners significantly greater. And then I read the article itself, finding it made my point perfectly, so here’s the crux of it as written:
“You would think that when your party is [digging] a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster. But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should [be] law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you.
A birdie sent me this: FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting Medicaid and Medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.
She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years. Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations.
The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.Many more people will be uninsured.
The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach.”
And then, I came across another item on Drudge by Maya Shwayder, a Jerusalem Post correspondent who writes, ”While the US has “implemented unprecedented sanctions and pressure on Iran, we may very well have to use military force to back up our policy,” Leon Panetta said on Thursday night.
The former US defense secretary and CIA director made the remarks while addressing around 600 people at the Anti-Defamation League’s 100th annual meeting.
Panetta, who was receiving the ADL’s William and Naomi Gorowitz Institute Service Award, said the US needs to “maintain a healthy skepticism” when negotiating to suss out Iran’s true level of commitment to negotiations over its nuclear program.
“It is the Supreme Leader [Ali Khamenei] who is key, and he is not likely to give up [uranium] enrichment,” Panetta warned. “We have to remain strong. We have to remain consistent.”
So, when all is said and done, what’s happening here was easily foreseeable by anyone with the slightest knowledge of the fragile structure of the Middle East and why it was so critical for us to have a strong position the region.
But, once again naïve leadership, unwilling to accept the responsibility of the truth’s, pandered instead to ignorant constituents insisting on burying their heads in the sand and denying reality.
And now, two years later we’re right back where we were in the first place, facing military intervention anyway, except this time in a significantly weaker position.
Which I guess, is what the left is all about. Because they obviously believe that losing is much more gracious and humane than winning, the strong should always defer to the weak, and that the helpless and hopeless are not only to be admired, it’s worth bringing down the most successful nation on earth on their account, rather than striving to help them achieve their own success.
That’s it for today folks.
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