Obamacare ? Obama No Care.

When someone asks you what is wrong with Obama’s plan- point out to them that IF the inept government provides “cheap” (except to the taxpayer) health insurance, no employers in their right MINDS would offer a private insurance option. That means that PRIVATE insurers would go out of business then ALL of us are stuck on the government plan. Yesterday, I saw a radiation oncologist (the guy who does the radiation for cancer)who said that in those 1000 pages of health care “reform” is a provision to stop services like his in cases where the cancer has a poor prognosis. That means, no radiation therapy or chemo will be paid for if the cancer will be terminal anyway. Right now, chemo and radiation do provide pain management and shrinking of tumors giving people a longer life- most with more quality of life. Medicine has worked for decades to try to cure cancer. Part of CURING it is extending the lives of patients who have incurable cancer so that they can take new medications and be part of new protocols. Many patients volunteer for this, knowing it might save their children’s lives one day. It is my opinion that the Obama health care option, by denying terminal care, will essentially STOP the cures for many terminal diseases from being developed. And if that is not reason enough, then you need to think of the quality of mercy. Until you face the last year of your life, it is easy to say that a terminal diagnosis should be simply accepted without a fight. Most people choose the fight.

Find me one person who has read all 1000 pages of this bill. That should be the first question you should ask an Obamacare supporter- have they READ what this is? But I do know that the radiation oncologist HAD read the entire bill. And he thought it was frightening for patient choice and physician choice.

Then the commentator asked the best question- is medicine a BUSINESS or a SOCIAL PROGRAM? Last time I looked, there was no government sponsored coverage for legal service, technical services, repair services, etc., and I have to pay everyone who does anything for me. If the government (i.e. the taxpayer) wishes to reimburse hospitals and doctors for the amount of cash the insurance companies make them eat right now, then the citizens of the US cannot trust their congress people to do it for them. It needs to be on the 2010 ballot. Then go ask your doctor what would be best for YOU and your family.

This issue is too huge to push through in a couple of months. It is being forced on the taxpayers by their "representatives". Don't stop the fight. Until your "representative" can explain it all to you and make it easily available to you, don't let them make you a worse victim of an all ready bad, but NOT broken, system.