Healthcare thoughts…

I have heard from many of you who read my last post and are upset that I don’t believe that there are 47 million people who do not have health care insurance. 

So… lets play a game.  Stay with me as we move through this…

• There are roughly 304,000,000 people in America.
• Let’s assume – for the sake of argument - that family practice physicians only treat the insured – as the media and those on the left are leading us to believe.
• Let’s assume – for the sake of argument - that the health care system is burdened and out of control – as the media and those on the left are leading us to believe.
• These assumptions mean that 257,000,000 are being treated – as needed by their physicians.
• These assumptions also means that 47,000,000 are untreated because they are not covered- as the media and those on the left are leading us to believe.
• The WHO estimates that there are 1.5 million physicians in the US.
• The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that there are roughly 400,000 family practice physicians.

HEAR ME NOW – this is the check point….

• If the AAFP, the media, and the left are correct – this means that 400,000 of the 1.5 million practicing physicians are family practitioners.
• If the media and liberal left are correct in that only the insured are getting treated then the physician to patient ratio for the US is 1 to 642

HEAR ME NOW – this is the problem

If we flip a switch on January 1st, 2010 and grant everyone universal coverage – we will need and additional 73,208 physicians to cover the newly insured and keep the ration at 1 to 642.

This begs a few questions?

1. Where are they – the 73,208 family practice physicians - going to come from?
2. What will will happen when the load is spread from a ratio of 1 to 642 to the NEW ratio of 1 to 760?
3. How will the patient load be rationed to practicing physicians?
4. What happens to the load if physicians opt out of the public plan?

Other thoughts…

Let’s remember this started on assumptions.  I offer to you the problems is not as large as you are being lead to believe.  There are not 47 million people who are not receiving medical care.  Do not fall for that!!

In my estimation what needs to happen is:

1. We need to clearly identify segments of the healthcare system that needs to be reformed or repaired.
2. We need to do this slowly and we need to do it with healthcare providers and insurance companies.
3. We need desperately to correct the largest burden on the current system by stopping illegal immigrants from flooding the hospitals.

The most dangerous statement in the bill is that illegal immigrants will not be covered.  If you get nothing else… get this… the bill reads this way because the left knows that most Americans are sick of paying for illegal aliens.  So – they have included this language to make you feel better.  What they are not telling you is that the next large piece of legislation will be to provide amnesty for illegal aliens.  They – the left – are already writing it.

Remember the Obama agenda:

1. Fix the economy
2. Cap and Trade
3. Healthcare
4. Amnesty

He told you what he was going to do… now he is doing it!

 

Until we meet again – may God bless you and may God bless the United States of America!!!