Doctors: Obamacare Is A Disaster For America

[PhoKingGuy]

I used to think along similar lines, until I had patients literally scream at me for telling them that they would need to pay 5 bucks for their child's asthma inhalers. All while listening to music on their iPhones with Beats earbuds.

Idiots.

 

[Craig234]

SO TRUE! I mean, they're only working 80 hours a week in the very field. I'm sure the politicians in washington have a MUCH better idea of how to keep things efficient and free of red tape. Oh wait...

Actually, for being mostly lawyers who spend their days dialing for dollars, the politicians in Washington do remarkably well at a lot of things.

They win WWII, put people on the moon, keep a functioning monetary system, provide healthcare and social security to millions, and much more by using the experts who serve.

Main problem is when private corruption buys the policies - but that's a different issue.

 

[mattpegher]

I used to think along similar lines, until I had patients literally scream at me for telling them that they would need to pay 5 bucks for their child's asthma inhalers. All while listening to music on their iPhones with Beats earbuds.

Idiots.

QFT

There isnt a single medicaid patient or freebie patient that I have seen in the last 10 years that doesnt have a cellphone and more gold jewelry than I have ever owned.
Of course these assholes are going to get their care for free anyway, because they come to the ER and drive up everyone elses costs.

 

[ShawnD1]

So, if your car has an oil leak, do you change the entire engine or try and get to the source of the leak?

(Edit: Pills don't fix everything. Other solutions to people's ailments could be lifestyle changes such as exercise and diet.)

Fixing the root problem is infeasible in most cases. My problem is a defect in the hypothalamus. This is on the scale of saying the engine block is cracked in several different places and it's leaking oil.

Fixing it with brain surgery would cost many many thousands of dollars, and we probably don't have the technology to do it at this time. Research shows that it will work properly if given drugs. The entire thing is completely treated with as little as $300 worth of drugs per year, and even then doctors give me a hard time about it. I really wish bad doctors would run into a mechanics who give them the runaround like that.
"Well I can't fix your car because I think you're faking it. It's not really leaking oil. You'll need to see the mechanic down the street, wait 3 hours to talk to him, and have a 1% chance that he'll fix it." Then repeat that process several times. One of the doctors along the way will be some retard who wrote books about releasing the car's inner emotions and he'll insist that talking to the car fixes the oil leak.

I know a lot of people who have similar problems. My gf's sister has a broken thyroid gland. It's completely fucked. They tried to kill it or turn it into the hulk using radioactive iodine, and now there's talk about cutting the thing out. Doctors can't give her a new thyroid, but they can give her drugs and other things that mimic what a thyroid usually does. Luckily she hasn't been jerked around too much. Doctors seem to agree that a thyroid is actually a thing that does stuff. The jury is still out about whether or not the brain exists and does it sometimes need medication to work properly.