Actually, AnnRandy is right....that was exactly what the post was about.

In addition, I wanted to highlight the hypocrisy of know nothings like Michael Moore who claim we should like being forced to pay into a system that is set up to lower our standard of care. It is priceless when Bill Maher confirms that those without means would probably be dead because they couldn't have afforded to opt out like Mr Cain.

"how do you propose paying for the big ticket items such as a heart transplant or cancer treatment? "

It is called catastrophic coverage. The way insurance started out. It was the insertion of the insurance company into routine care such as office visits and routine lab tests that started the problem. The insertion of the middle man inflated costs for the patient (in premiums, co-insurance and deductibles) while blocking access to care with pre-certifications and denials). It arbitrarily set reimbursement rates to physicians. Now doctors have either opted out by retiring early, limited their scope of practice or restricted their ER coverage. Doctors in private practice are being driven out of business and hospital based practices and large group practices are becoming the norm. In short, patient access to physicians has been decreased.

You should educate yourself about the FDA. It has become a revolving door for those who have worked for the pharmaceutical industry insuring that it has a competitive edge. From working to remove competition from the supplement industry to allowing known toxins such as BPA in plastics and round up ready seeds in genetically modified foods to allowing fast tracked vaccines such as Gardesil to stay on the market

http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-inc-discovers-potenti...

... problems with the FDA are myriad. The buyer already needs to be aware.

The trend has been for private practitioners to either retire, join larger groups, become hospital employees or work part time. The solo private practice is disappearing.
http://www.physiciansmoneydigest.com/your-practic...

Dear HLB,

I stand by the findings in the study. As a physician I live this everyday.

I know several doctors who have left the practice of medicine because they are fed up and see Obamacare as the last straw. I have seen solo practitioners move to mega group practice or become hospital employees because they can't afford to keep their doors open. I have no interest in practicing government run medicine.

Once the punitive measures are put in place, you can bet that there will be a stampede of physicians leaving healthcare. The 43% may turn out to be a low estimate.

If you want to quibble on the citation of the source - go right ahead, but it is a moot point; and when you start name calling it is just a glaring example that you have already lost your argument.

In my opinion, the point is to end up with a government controlled single payer system.

You can add hospitals to the list of winner in Obamacare

Amen!

The decision to not operate on a patient that may not be medically capable of surviving the procedure is NOT rationing, it is the application of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

Well done !

There is no question that ionizing radiation can cause cancer. Non-ionizing radiation can also presumably cause cancer by disrupting the DNA. The point is no one has done any long term studies to find out if the terahertz radiation is safe. Just because it is a different mechanism of damage doesn't mean it should be discounted. See the link above and also feel free to read a post I wrote several months ago on the scanners (http://drelainageorge.com/?p=385)

Whether it is the backscatter technology or the millimeter wave technology I don't think it is safe, and I have no intention of submitting voluntarily. If you add that to cumulative exposure from flying plus possible medical exposures such as CT or x-ray, it may be the proverbial straw that tips someone into a mutation that can later become cancer.