ObamaCare: A Government Created Infection Killing Off DoctorCare
The news is very bad for primary care physicians – and for every one of us – if American medicine is compelled to practice under the punitive ObamaCare law – the deceptively named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Study upon study shows this legislation provides anything BUT patient protection and affordable healthcare – and medical doctors know it!If ObamaCare is NOT repealed, and the politicized Supreme Court, as is likely, fails to strike this law down, between 33% and 40% percent of all doctors plan to "retire, seek a non-clinical job in health care, or seek a job or business unrelated to health care."
Consistently, doctors point to the destructive provisions under ObamaCare for leaving the medical profession. These same studies show that a large majority of doctors agree that this sweeping overhaul does little to accomplish anything other than to further enrich the insurance companies – and entrench the government squarely between our doctors and us in matters of our health care.The American Association of Medical Colleges recently stated that there will be a shortage of 62,900 doctors within the next 5 years and further shortages of 150,000 – that's one hundred and fifty thousand doctors – over the next 15 years.
Common sense tells us that we can't treat more patients in the health care system with fewer doctors per patient. ObamaCare deliberately ignores this important fact while adding upwards of 32 million patients to already overburdened government healthcare programs that face collapse under their own weight. The problem here isn't merely the coercive enactment of intrusive, unsustainable and undesirable "restrictions" – it's that ObamaCare by design will drive thousands of needed doctors from the profession.
Members of the U.S. Senate "Need to Heed" America's Voice – the united voice of patients AND doctors, and REPEAL ObamaCare NOW!
According to a study by the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the barriers to healthcare have doubled during the past decade – including limited physician office hours, wait times for appointments, difficulty in making an appointment. Now, thanks to ObamaCare, those long lines and extended waiting times are going to get much, much worse.And statistically, patients who face only one such barrier tend to run to the already overwhelmed hospital emergency rooms!
Picture yourself waiting and waiting and waiting for an appointment or treatment (if it's even approved) because that's what ObamaCare is about to create.
While the insurance companies and the unions played a significant part in crafting ObamaCare, the medical community was largely ignored. Legislators simply snubbed the policy recommendations of practicing physicians.
The result is that the Obama Administration's heavy-handed new rules put a significant part of "financing" ObamaCare squarely on the backs of doctors. ObamaCare severely cuts fees for services and gives the government new powers to limit what procedures can be administered, all while burdening doctors with greater mountains of paperwork and regulations.
Doctors can be fined or even jailed if they refuse to follow arbitrary bureaucratic rules designed to limit and ration needed treatments. ObamaCare's "Independent Payment Advisory Board" is the real "death panel" and has been made immune to lawsuits or even Congressional oversight!
And, despite the stated purpose of ObamaCare to reduce costs, we've seen our healthcare premiums, co-pays and deductibles already exploding! It's going to get worse. Much worse. Costs will continue to skyrocket because of the law of supply and demand: fewer doctors (supply) but millions more patients (demand)!
In effect, we will be paying higher taxes and higher health insurance premiums in exchange for fewer doctors and far more restricted and regulated services – a far cry from the healthcare "bargain" ObamaCare promised.
The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has been using your tax dollars on a nationwide campaign with billboards that state, "This year thousands of men will die of stubbornness." It's intended to make men aware of silent killers like prostate cancer.
Candidly, and not to diminish the importance of the current message, if the government wants to spend taxpayers' dollars to sponsor billboards, a sister ad might as well read, "In the next few years, thousands of Americans will die because there are no doctors. Thank Obama and your Democratic Senators."
The GOOD NEWS IS – there is a way to STOP OBAMACARE. YOUR Repeal It Now campaign has delivered 1.6 million signatures to Congress demanding that ObamaCare be repealed. Within days of our January delivery, the House did in fact vote to repeal the onerous Health Care Act. Now (as elections near) we are beginning to see real signs toward success in the Senate. In fact, WE ARE ONLY 4 SENATE VOTES AWAY from a majority favoring repeal of ObamaCare.
FOUR VOTES – That's all we need, just 4 more Senators to cross the line and vote to repeal ObamaCare. WE NEED YOUR HELP to compel the Senate to follow the will of the American people.
Join Mike Huckabee and me as we blast the Senate with even more petitions, and faxed DEMANDS for a new vote and full OBAMACARE REPEAL!
We KNOW from political experience EVERY DAY harmful legislation remains in place, it becomes harder and harder to REPEAL, RESCIND, AND REMOVE. We CANNOT rely on the Supreme Court to overturn ObamaCare! Help us reach those Senators who still "Need to Heed" America's Voice!
Start the 2012 New Year right, defend our doctor-patient rights and save our American healthcare system! DEMAND A NEW VOTE and Support OBAMACARE REPEAL!
Sincerely,
Ken Hoaglandwww.RepealItNow.org
PS: If you thought you'd be protected from long lines in your own doctor's office – think again! Recent studies show that as many as half of all employees will lose employer based coverage because of ObamaCare and be forced into government run health exchanges. You won't keep your own doctor and the law of supply and demand says that adding more than 30 million new patients to a dwindling supply of doctors means two certain things: rationing and high costs. Please help us grow our increasingly formidable work, as we Restore America's Voice and REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW, before it is too late.
If you prefer to send a check, please mail to:
Restore America's Voice Foundation
P.O. Box 131808
Houston, TX 77219-1808
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