Death by Obamacare
Media has been focusing on
the fundamentally flawed economic aspects of Obamacare. Few pundits have
weighed in on the medical care and access that comes with this monstrous
legislation. Moving beyond the Exchanges
the reality of Obamacare confronts you when trying to enter this new mode of
health care delivery. Traditionally physicians worked alongside nursing
personnel to investigate a patient’s symptoms and provide a viable treatment
plan to effectuate a solution to the presenting problem. Obamacare seeks to
undo this model by introducing secondary health providers, such as nurse
practitioners and physician assistants, for first contact. Complicated
presenting complaints would be evaluated by people who have less than one third
the training of an M.D. or D.O. American medicine has already taken a hit when
investigations revealed many foreign MDs have markedly less education and
practical patient experience than their American counterparts prior to
licensing. Doctor Ezekial Emanual, one of the architects of Obamacare recently
stated in an interview with Andy Dean: for Obamacare to be a viable entity,
secondary personnel on the frontlines, is necessary if this model of health
delivery is to work. In his opinion physicians are no longer needed to be
present on first contact. This Harvard theorist is essentially requiring
Americans to be lab animals in the Obamacare maze. Dr. Emanual’s attempt to
re-fabricate American medicine has no support in studies or actual experience,
only an untried theorem. Medical care will see a decline in the quality and
quantity of services as the new system is implemented. Physicians will be
forced to follow treatment plans that are cooked up by government bureaucrats,
many of whom are not health providers. These treatment plans will become the
new standards of care. A physician who deviates from them could lose his/her
license, be hanged in effigy and even find themselves in a cold jail cell, for
which there is significant precedent.
Under this massive new
health care scheme systems will be streamlined to maximize services. Accessibility
to ambulance and emergency services will be reduced for two reasons: increased
demand and fewer units available for treatment. In the new book, Obamacare: Dead
on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster, it documents how people die when
immediate services are not available. An
infant drowns because the emergency management personnel had too many calls to
answer on their shift. Chest pain leading to an acute heart attack was not
treated on time because an emergency room was overwhelmed with patients seeking
care. Surgeries on Demand will be a fine memory as the system introduces a new
element into acute care, it is call waiting time. The gamut of surgical
services may be available after weeks and or months of bureaucratic entanglement.
Cutting edge drugs give way to a pharmacopeia of generics, many of which have
been surpassed by newer medications. These drugs will not be available to you.
Need an immediate CAT scan or MRI, with fewer units in existence, months may go
by before your number is called. Obamacare guarantees three elements that will
confound your utilization of its programs: higher costs, less access and poor
service. Death panels are not written into the matrix of care. Instead,
available medical services are slowed to a crawl, allowing those with curable
and or manageable diseases to succumb at much higher rates than in the past.
Welcome to Obamacare, worse than the present system it is replacing and deadly
to your health. Mark Davis, MD author of the aforementioned book, Obamacare:
Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster and the book lawyers hate most
Demons of Democracy. President of Davis Book Reviews and Healthnets Review
Services.
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