"If we jump on the socialized medicine train,
we lose the most cherished healthcare and
medical treatment system ever created
for mankind. In a more serious way, all
physicians and other healthcare professionals
will have to share the responsibility for
willfully enabling the take over of socialized
medicine in our nation."
Judging by how the wind blows, our national healthcare and the medical profession is about to sink into the quicksand of socialized medicine while our government controls all of it. You know... healthcare managed by bureaucrats and politicians who are ignorant of what makes private medical care so desirable to Americans. Physicians across our nation are well aware of the flood of socialized medicine physicians who have moved to our country to practice far better quality of medicine over the last century.
This is especially notable because our medical practice system attracts only the the best of those foreign physicians who are driven to increase and expand their medical skills and knowledge to their highest level, something that they are unable to do under the political control of socialized medicine. The limitations on and decreased value of socialized medicine physicians is recognized and tolerated by those other nations.
From another point of view, if you are religiously oriented, God has decided to make us suffer at a much greater depth for the obvious purposeful direction of this country away from God, and certainly getting much worse daily. We deserve what we get, although there are a large number of Americans who understand the cure for a dictatorship and don't deserve what's coming down the line for them.
As a profession, we have never reached the level of power, prestige, and influence that medicine should have had all along. The reasons for that in my view began with the inadequate knowledge and education about politics that organized medicine has sent against the enemy--governmental intervention. Very similar to David meeting Goliath. Our warriors were doctors instead of politicians. Flailing a stethoscope at the enemy did nothing more than show how weak we have always been as a political opponent. I hear the usual complaints about why and you have too.
It's why the AMA has never succeeded in much of anything they have tried to do that truly made a difference. Physicians are never able to win over attorneys who basically dominate all politics and control of congress. Take a look at the several medical doctors in congress today. What have they accomplished walking around in the den of lions on capitol hill. It's like pissing in the ocean and expecting it to rise. Even hiring mercenaries to plead our case has resulted in nothing more than anticipation.
Ask yourself why the AMA has never been able to attract a significant physician membership all these years past. Even the threats of certain groups of doctors to stop practicing, or go on strike, was a pipedream after all.
It seems that it takes riots, major military threats to the USA, or upcoming chaos and collapse of our economy to make the changes that have to be made--even in medicine. A lot of people have to be hurt, killed, or imprisoned to instigate action.
The greatest mistakes that I see now that affect medical practice today are:
1. Believing that congress will ever cure the national debt problems. It means there will be ever increasing enforcement of healthcare regulations and discounting of doctor's incomes.
2. Believing that there will ever come a time when our political parties will ever agree on much of anything--therefore, complete inaction on anything--a stalemate that won't be resolved without civil violence of foreign invasion. That leaves the medical profession vulnerable to any act of the government.
3. Belief that anyone can do anything without money. Money creates power and influence. And along with that, comes greed. Which is why congress, and every governmental segment, even in each state, will never be free of corruption.
4. Belief by most physicians that they can reach their maximum potential and income without any business education or knowledge---which will never be taught to them during their education. Is there one medical school or even premed program that insists on a business education or provides it? Hell no!
5. Since Obama Care law continues to influence the "left ideology," I predict that private medical practice will become practically non-existent, that our medical schools will have far fewer American applicants, that many more American physicians will give up medical practice earlier, and worst of all, that medicine will be practiced only by government stipulated protocols made up for every aspect and element of health care and medical practice.
I suppose that a lot of you feel the same way about what's about to hit us in the face. It is a comfort not to practice anymore. And I feel for those physicians in the future who will have to contend with rigid practice guidelines. I hope I'm wrong about these things but my intuition tells me I'm right.
Historically, socialized medicine was a monster created by puppet governments to maintain control of society. If one controls healthcare, they control the people. Dictatorship enables ease of government control, which can result in either good or bad results. Unfortunately, the power to control, corrupts the system. We see that no dictatorship in human history has ever survived. Every country that has ever evolved into government control of everything, never survives.
----Professional Probe----
"Having a Wolverine aggressiveness in our leaders,
who have a Wolverine temperament and a Wolverine
inbred skill of medical practice management, knowledge of the
continuous use of marketing, and how to ensure survival
of the medical profession and private medical practice,
would be a miracle for sure.
It's the only way that a physician has the freedom to
advance their medical practice management skills and
knowledge of their ultimate potential in their private medical
practice careers. And in doing so, every physician is able to
provide medical care for their medical patients at a persistently
higher level every day they practice medicine.
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