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| How's That Health Protection Going? |
The Department of Health & Welfare in Chicago, an agency created by the Health Recovery Act, sets the sums that doctors and hospitals are reimbursed for consultations, treatment, and operations by the country’s recent social system of medicine.
The American Medicine Association says that hundreds of hospitals and general practice clinics are facing financial ruin because they too are being forced to rely on government pricing for their income.
Moreover, the same association that backed the initial proposal for the socialized health care says that "they, as the professions bargaining representatives, are being overruled by the Department of HHS and the advisory body that regularly reviews the standard type of care offered to anyone in the country."
Long work hours and uncompetitive pay are deterring people from entering the medical profession. Even the most liberal U.S. immigration laws in the world fail to attract competent medical doctors and only entice doctors from Asia and the Middle East looking to escape their countries for political asylum.
The shortage of doctors is taking its toll on the people who can least afford it. In fact, thousands of sick people nationwide being transported to hospitals by ambulance have been turned away for treatment.
According to a survey by the U.S. Department of National Disaster Recovery, there were 14,387 cases in which seriously ill patients in ambulances were rejected by institutions more than three times before finally being accepted. In one case, it took ambulance personnel more than 40 tries to find a place willing to take a patient.
In 65 cases, patients had to wait more than 2 1/2 hours at the call scene before leaving for a hospital. The survey found that the medical institutions complained of not having adequate facilities, equipment or medical staff to treat emergency patients.
The HHS promised to resolve a doctor shortage and other related issues after a story appeared causing public outrage about a pregnant woman who miscarried in an ambulance during a frantic three-hour search for a hospital to treat her. Eight hospitals turned down the 34-year-old woman, who was six months pregnant.
"The ambulance transporting her crashed into a minivan on its way to the ninth hospital," said a fire department official in Orlando. "Her water broke several minutes before the traffic accident and the baby was born dead. The nearest hospital was just three minutes away," the official said. "Instead, the ambulance had to drive 45 miles.
Another example of the effects of Health Recovery Act is that a man died earlier this week 90 minutes following a bicycle collision with a motorcycle after 14 hospitals refused to treat him.
"They refused because they didn’t have an open bed, staff or equipment to help him," the St. Louis I-Net Dispatch reported. Most of those 90 minutes were spent in the ambulance, even though paramedics were at his side within minutes. He had head and back injuries, and “died of shock from loss of blood,” the online report said.
In New York, if you call an ambulance, they are compelled to call around to neighboring hospitals to see if the doctors in the emergency room have time to see another patient. As it goes, emergency rooms are often busy and a lot of them say no.
In San Francisco, Marcia Conwell M.D. said “if somebody comes in with a cut less than 6 square inches, the government pays me $14.30 to sew it up. "That’s extremely cheap," she said and is forced to look for other ways to make a dollar.
Doctor Conwell has four vending machines in her waiting room and has put up private parking signs on the street in front of her office and charges $4 an hour to park near her clinic and in her private parking lot.
Even more significantly, the Department of HHS has played a large role in undermining the health of its Americans. According to several research studies completed since the inception of the Recovery Act, a total of 225,000 Americans per year have died as a result of denied medical treatments.Okay – So you think this article is quite bizarre? Maybe but true.
The excerpts come from Japan On-Line News and its international media describing the condition of the health care system in Japan, said to be one of the best nationalized health care systems in the world; one that continues to experience the following: deceasing services, increasing waiting lists, selective surgeries, pre-approval treatment requirements, rationing provisions, decreased R & D, decreased new pharma drugs introduced from the U.S., continuing increasing costs, individual intrusion by government and under employment with more lost jobs.
So what should you expect from a U.S. government mandated health plan? You will get no compassion and a political solution rather than a personal, rational and economic one and that's what you now have.
Remember: This is what you voted for - twice.