Healthcare Reform Passes

Those in favor of this bill touted their good intentions of ensuring quality healthcare for all Americans, as if those of us against the bill are against good medical care.  They cite fanciful statistics of deficit reduction, while simultaneously planning to expand the already struggling medical welfare programs we currently have.  They somehow think that healthcare in this country will be improved by swelling our welfare rolls and cutting reimbursement payments to doctors who are already losing money.  It is estimated that thousands of doctors will be economically forced out of the profession should this government fuzzy math actually try to become healthcare reality.  No one has thought to ask what good mandatory health insurance will be if people can’t find a doctor.

Legislative hopes and dreams don’t always stand up well against economic realities. [Emphasis added]

The legislation assumes doctors and other medical care providers will participate, even though it is their oxen being gored. It also assumes that the practice of medicine will continue to be attractive to young men and women seeking an honorable profession.