Obama-Care

I often hear people tell me that they need a medical procedure that they cannot afford, and they don’t have insurance. They skip going back to the doctor. Instead of taking care of themselves out of their pocket, they neglect their bodies. If insurance pays, it is a different story. Why is this? My deceased wife Barb was in this group. If she had to pay for a treatment she skipped it. She worked as a nurse,  and felt the system owed her the care.

So many times I have heard my own doctor tell me that I need something but my insurance doesn’t cover it, therefore he won’t even think of prescribing it. Why? When I ask if I can pay out of my pocket, he gives me a dumb look like he doesn’t know how to handle a cash customer. Why?

 Our obsession with universal health-care is nuts. We should know by now that if POTUS is pushing  it, that it will be a disaster for all of us. Of course it will be another emergency like the banks, and the car companies, so there will be a hurry for legislation to be passed without any transparency and without anyone reading it ahead of time. Every democratic rubber stamp will be wet with ink on the day of the vote. No amount of  citizen calls, e-mails, and letters to our congressional reps will make a difference. Our congress is a bunch of Obam-ass kissing socialist power grabbers who have forgotten what there jobs are. They represent the people not the president.

Before and After Obamacare

Dr. Obama

No doubt the country wants some form of universal health care. Why? I cannot understand. Health care is a recent invention. I recall, when growing up, that mother took me to the doctor on a streetcar. She paid him in installments. If I was really sick, he came to the house. People lived, and they died.  Today, we seem to have this idea that we need to be taken care of, and we want the government to do it.

I blame the insurance companies for creating this monster. Forty years ago,  if a person went to a doctor with a problem, the doctor asked if he had hospitalization insurance. If the person did, he was hospitalized for tests. That way the patient wouldn’t have to pay. The doctor and the insurance company were in cahoots with each other. The government got into the act with Medicare in 1965.  It was created to provide for the “general welfare.”

It has inculcated a mindset that we are entitled to healthcare. Maybe we are, but there are limits. Be careful what you wish for.

Dr. Obama Gives Mr. Taxpayer His Diagnosis