How can this be, you say? Isn't Obamacare supposed to be affordable for everyone? Of course it is...if you choose to become one of the multitudes who will be among the thousands in line for your 'affordable' healthcare. Where the doctor is only allotted a limited amount of time for each patient. Which means 'cattle calls' for healthcare.
Our physician has told us he has pondered long and hard about his future practice. He is a very thorough doctor, and both my husband and I are very happy with him because of his attentiveness to all our concerns. But the good doctor faced the problem of having his practice turned into a 'drive-by' medical service, with huge numbers of patients being rushed in and out of the office (as deemed by Obamacare).
So the doctor has turned to an alternative that is allowed under Obamacare. His practice will be associated with a company that offers 'personalized healthcare'. For adults, there is a yearly cost of $1,500.00 and a full and complete physical (it's quite exhaustive). We get same or next-day appointments when we call, and get 24-hour physician availability by phone. Appointments are scheduled so that you have plenty of time to ask the questions you want. The number of his patients will go from 3,000 to 600. After he reaches 600, that's it...he takes no more 'adult' patients after that. He will see our children without the yearly fee...and hopefully our insurance will still be affiliated with him.
So...the choice is...do we stick with a doctor we trust but have to pay an extra several thousand dollars per year? Or do we leave it to chance and the cattle-round-up...and the costs go up next year, with health benefits becoming taxed and the Bush tax-cuts ending?
Because of Obama(un)care, how many people will take home even less...and start going without? How many families will go without adequate and affordable healthcare, without money to pay for housing and food and transportation... You think the economy has taken a downturn recently? Wait till next year...Obama's audacity of ego can quite possibly lead this country down an ever-spiraling path of economic destruction, making us vulnerable in ways recent generations could never have imagined.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Our basic rights are being eroded away, one intolerable 'feel-good' policy at a time. I hope (not Obama's self-aggrandizing kind of 'hope'), that this November's election will be a sign-post of change (not Obama's country-destroying 'change'). Our country doesn't deserve its president and Congress attempting to destroy it from within. We, the people, don't deserve to be raped and pillaged of our basic rights.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Thomas Paine
We, the people, need to now act to form a more perfect Union. Vote for real hope, vote for real change. Doc Utopia and his ilk are NOT the physicians we need.
Hooray! Just the passion the Kingdom Triangle needed! We are thrilled Mrs. Who has agreed to join us as a contributor to this blog. It is a great day at the Kingdom Triangle!
ReplyDeleteAmen, Mrs. Who! I have seen Bill O'Reilly discussing the same thing, that the insurance and drug companies are counting down the days to austerity and trying to make a killing on their way down to the valley of Omamacare despair. You have made it very clear how difficult this will be for people in the real world. Not the change we hoped for, was it? I will pray for you to have wisdom in your decisions. We all need it.
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