"Have you noticed that as the American physicians
reduce in numbers, the foreign physicians
increase in numbers in our nation? Have you even
thought about why that would be happening?"
There's no end to what our government is willing to do to terminate private medical practice.
The recent blurb in the recent Wall Street Journal again points out how the new health care law intends to force the coordination of what hospitals and physicians do. The new organization is named ACO (Accountable-Care Organizations)... like we need another bureaucracy to control how physicians in private medical practice medicine handle their medical practice management.
This new system and business is there to prevent the duplication of medical tests among doctors and hospitals to reduce the costs of Medicare. They seem to have forgotten that EMR (Electronic Medical Records) has already been mandated by law for implementation in medical care offices, which will and can eliminate the need for any ACOs, in my view. By simply clicking on the EMR link, one can see the tests already done and not reorder them.
The most frustrating part of what the political non-medical predictors have not considered as worthy of attention, are the massive problems other countries in Europe and in Canada, among others, have had with their socialized medical programs, especially the fact that the availability of medical care to patients has been significantly reduced through restrictive rules that intentionally limit medical care (rationing) to certain segments of the population. True especially, where it costs the system too much money to care of unproductive people and those with terminal diseases--just left to rot.
When countries are going bankrupt, it adds an even bigger problem--no medical care available at all, or at least some times.
During my meditation times, I can think of many ways in which the presence of private practice medical physicians are in a position to provide health care to patients even if the whole government collapses. Does it make you wonder if the national health services in those countries permit their contracted physicians to provide care to anyone that needs medical care, or just to those who are members of the organization? It follows, when 95% of physicians are locked to the national health systems and it fails, where do all the patients go for care?
Patients who are left with choices of who they prefer to have manage their medical care are at a great advantage far and above those cornered in any form of national health systems.
The circle of dictation of medical care to patients started by physicians telling patients in the old category exactly what care and treatment would be done, then the medical system switched to dumping decisions for medical care choices on patient's shoulders while physicians waited for the patient to decide, and now the dictation of care is back in the government's hands, doing the dictating of care to patients as well as dictating what physicians must of can't do in their
medical practices.
No one denies that the best medical care happens in a private medical practice office, except for the few wayward physicians who always have a ulterior selfish motive in mind.
One last comment about what seems blatantly obvious to me. For my about 50 years in medical circles and exposed to about every kind of medical practice and delivery of health care one can think of during that time, I keep hoping that organized medicine at its highest levels would be able to save the profession from the clutches of government. Now, I am sure it can't.
All of the lobbying by the proponents of maintaining private medical practice are not able to change the minds of politicians. Its for the same reasons we see now that ruling by consensus opinion has eliminated reasoning and the power to change anything. It's no different than what you experience in hospital staff committees.
It might be a very good idea to cinch up your suspenders, hope someone will have a positive effect on everything, and stand up for what you believe. And, if that is not enough, I have some other ideas for you to think about--but not today.
Read article # 102, title, "How Our Government Planned the Destruction of the Medical Profession--and It's Working Perfectly"
----Professional Probe----
"If the disintegration of private medical practice
continues unabated much longer, medical doctors
may need to shift their cruise vacations to the more
affordable "Red-Neck" Cruise lines pictured above."
"Or You Can Loudly Communicate Your Rage About the
Abuse You Are Sick and Tired of Tolerating from Our Government/Politicians and Insist That Those on the Left
Who Push Their Egregious Medical Practice Control Agenda
Be Removed from Our National Congress--
in a nice way, of course."
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