He would have much rather kept his private insurance, which costs much more; but he couldn’t. That is exactly what will happen with this universal healthcare plan Obama is lying about. Medicare is the example we should all look to when we want to see how this will all end…it’s right in front of us this minute.

Medicare is going bankrupt, people have no choice and the ‘solution’ to this appears to be ‘cut costs by denying care’ and advising early deaths.

Sounds like a solution doesn’t it….the final solution.

Medicaid pays so poorly, finding a doctor is a real challenge for her. When she moved to Dallas, she tried to utilize the public hospital (the famous Parkland, where JFK was pronounced dead) but they wouldn’t help her because she didn’t live in Dallas County. It’s been 5 years now and she still doesn’t have a rhumatologist or a neurologist. When she calls Medicaid to help her find doctors, they give her a couple of numbers only to find out later they aren’t accepting new (Medicaid) patients. Isn’t that odd? When I need a specialist, I just look them up on my insurance company’s website and – joila! I have a specialist.

It gets even better. She moved to Ft. Worth a year ago. She’d like to find a primary care physician that’s closer to her but so far she has found no one. Medicaid actually pays a taxi to pick her up and take her to her doctor in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb about 50 miles away, and back. That’s 100 miles round trip. The taxi driver ends up making about as much (if not more) than the doctor. You would think that Medicaid would help her find a closer doctor for this reason alone but no… that would be too efficient for government.

Last week, I took her to a dentist. $235 out of my pocket because Medicaid doesn’t cover dental for those under 21. He referred her to an oral surgeon because the problem is beyond his scope. Of course the surgeon doesn’t take Medicaid so I took her to a nearby ER. There wasn’t much the doctor could do except order a CT scan to make sure it wasn’t cancer. He mentioned taking her to JPS (Ft. Worth’s public hospital) but when he found out she lived outside the county, he said, “that’s too bad.” He wouldn’t elaborate and changed the subject quickly before I could ask him why that made a difference. *sigh*

Thanks be to God, she did manage to find an oral surgeon that will see her next week. Finding a doctor that quickly was a miracle. I suspect it may have been someone the ER doc know as he did giver her a couple of phone numbers. That was a miracle.

So there you have it, public heath care in all it’s glory. I could go on (limits on prescriptions, no reimbursment for ambulance tranportation, etc.). And guess what? President HopeChange and the Democrats in Congress, the ones who claim to care so much for the poor, want to cut Medicaid as well.

As I’ve said before, indigent health care is broken but it can be fixed. There’s no need to throw the baby out with the bath water!

P.S. Ask Parkland what happened when they sent a bill to Mexico for all the illegal aliens they treat. Better yet, ask them what DIDN’T happen.

Speaking of the Healthcare debate, I had to copy a part of a post from a Liberal that supports Obamacare from another site-

The beginning of section 8 of our US Constitution

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

As you see, the Constitution does grant Congress the power to provide for the general welfare of the United States–i.e. healthcare

That is just how desperate the Libs are. And, this was posted on a Tea Party site.

Totally on the mark. The fiscal health of medicare should give people pause when looking at the proposed reform of the whole system.

Mr. H
http://www.allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/

There’s next to no way a universal Medicare system would be feasible, without massive tax increases or other such measures in order to pay for it.

I mean, if you see corporations and/or The Rich as a green, shining dipping pool to siphon money out of, I suppose universal medicare still seems like a bright idea. But beyond that, I have no idea how the nation could support an expanded public healthcare system.