16 April 2010By Keith Johnson
G-197?
No, this isn’t a game of “Battleship”, it’s your
place in line to get that broken finger looked at by a
healthcare professional. That’s right, I said
“healthcare professional”. That nurse who used to
greet you and take your blood pressure before turning
you over to a physician has now become your doctor.
And that
general practitioner who used to treat you for
minor illness has now become your brain surgeon.
Welcome to life under Obamacare!
According to a recent Associate Press article:
A nurse may soon be your doctor. With a
looming shortage of
primary
care doctors, 28 states are considering
expanding the authority of
nurse practitioners. These nurses with
advanced degrees want the right to practice without a
doctor's watchful eye and to prescribe narcotics. And
if they hold a doctorate, they want to be called
"Doctor."
The article goes on to say:
Massachusetts, the model for the
federal
health care overhaul, passed its law in 2006
expanding health insurance to nearly all
residents and creating long waits for primary care.
In 2008, the state passed a law requiring health plans
to recognize and reimburse nurse practitioners as
primary
care providers.
You heard it, folks, right out of the mouths of the
mainstream media. Long waits and rationed care by an
overworked and unqualified staff. Do you like taking
off a day from work to get your car registered with
the DMV? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. As if going to
the doctor wasn’t an uncomfortable experience to begin
with. Wait till you see what’s coming. New hospitals
will become arena sized to accommodate the few
legitimate patients rubbing shoulders with
hypochondriacs and illegal aliens with tummy aches.
Comfortable chairs and soothing music will make way
for wooden benches and drab, gray walls.
Operating theatres will become smaller and
cramped. Oh—and are you planning an extended
hospital stay? Don’t expect your own private
room with a television set. Instead, you’ll be lucky
to have a partition between you and the other dozen or
so beds lined up on either side of you. In pain?
Forget the morphine drip—a couple of aspirins should
do the job.
But don’t worry, not everyone has been made to
suffer. Some are outright giddy about our President’s
new austerity plan. Two weeks ago I reported how the
big K Street lobbying firms disproportionately spent
more money pushing Obamacare, lining the pockets of
Democrats and funding pro-healthcare reform ad
campaigns than on any single issue in history. One of
those firms, Raben Group, has even gloated about it in
recent days. On their website is a letter to their
clients, which reads:
Some Say Waterloo; We Say Success: The
Raben Group’s Clients and
Health Care and
Education Reform
As the Obama Administration prepares to
implement the most
comprehensive health care reform measures since
the creation of Medicare, many others also have cause
to celebrate this singular achievement. We’re excited
to share with you some
terrific success stories from our valued family
of clients.
And how are those health insurance and
bio-technology stocks holding up just two weeks into
Obamacare? Let’s look at the giants: Yesterday, an
article entitled Ahead of the Bell:
UnitedHealth Upgraded, quotes
trusted financial analyst Jason Gurda as saying that
America’s largest publicly traded
health
insurer, UnitedHealth has had “better than
expected enrollment growth” and that he has
boosted his rating on the stock to “Outperform”
from “Market perform”.
The article goes on to say:
Health insurance stocks experienced periods of
volatility through most of 2009, as the economy
bottomed out at the start of the year and then the
debate over
health insurance reform raised investor
concern. But the stocks have largely stabilized this
year, as
health reform passed through Congress and was
signed into law, eliminating uncertainty for
investors.
And how about that bio-tech giant, Amgen? On
Monday, the stock closed trading at $60.37 compared to
the 52 week range of $44.96-$64.76. Not too shabby.
After signing the dreaded
health care reform legislation into law, a very
arrogant and obnoxious Obama mocked Republicans for
acting as if the bill would lead to "Armageddon." He
stated "After I signed the bill, I looked around
to see if there were any asteroids falling, some
cracks opening up in the earth. It turned out to be a
nice day. Birds were chirping, folks were strolling
down the mall."
Why of course, Mr. President, cancer rarely spreads
through the body with devastating speed, but your
cancer certainly has picked up quite a bit of momentum
in recent days and its likely we shall see the
physical manifestations of this deadly disease in
short order.
Bend over, America! The doctor—uh—I mean, nurse
will see you now!
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