The Economics of Obamacare and Obama

The article below was posted by An Objectivist Individualist. It is interesting on two levels. First, it clearly shows the adverse impact of ObamaCare on your future health care.

Second, while dealing with healthcare, it is a perfect example of what incentives and disincentives do to individuals.

Every rule and regulation that Obama imposes affects someone — doctors, businessmen, consumers, etc. When some of this legislation is over 2000 pages long and not read by the legislators, there is no telling what is buried within. Let the unintended consequences begin.

The threat of future legislation also affects incentives and behavior today.

The reason why this economy will not hire or invest is contained below, at least for the medical profession. Try to imagine these same kinds of reactions in other labor markets and industries.

The damage done initiative in this country is devastating. It is easily remediable — repeal all this nonsense!

Many Doctors Do Not Want to Be Obama’s Slaves

Grace-Marie Turner wrote a good summary of doctor’s reaction to the onslaught of ObamaCare for The Orange County Register.  Here is a summary of her summary:

• 28% of seniors had trouble finding a primary care doctor in 2008 compared to 24% in 2007.
• Only 38% of primary care doctors in Texas will take a new Medicare patient.
• The Mayo Clinic has stopped taking Medicare patients at several locations.
• The postponed 21% cut in doctor payments, will now have to be 30% in January.
• The American Osteopathic Association says only 40% of doctors will be able to continue seeing Medicare patients after the cut occurs because they will lose money on each patient.
• ObamaCare requires a big investment in information technology.
• ObamaCare requires more paperwork and cookbook medicine, eliminating individual tailoring.
• A simple error can result in a $10,000 fine.
• 70 million Baby Boomers are about to go on Medicare.
• The American Association of Medical Colleges projects a 150,000 shortfall of doctors by 2025.
• Longer waits for treatment and more emergency room visits will result.
• There is no increase in the number of residencies to train more physicians.
• 13% of internists will not treat Medicare patients at all.
• A financial planner with many doctor clients says half of them want to retire in 2013, just before the worst of ObamaCare takes effect in 2014.

This is just as one would expect.  Why would highly educated and dedicated professionals submit to the Obama slavery?  Would you really want one of the physicians who would accept slavery to perform an operation on you?  I would much rather have a proud professional, so when the time comes, I will just have to scrape up the money to pay one of the doctors who will not take Medicare patients.  There just isn’t a free lunch when it comes to quality medical care.

Well, maybe there sometimes was when the doctor had the freedom to donate his services for people really in need, but now that everyone simply plans to take advantage of him with the ObamaCare thugs pointing a gun at him, it is not likely he will be feeling charitable.  All you proud and capable doctors have little choice but to refuse Medicare moocher patients.  Better to refuse them than to spit on them.

Of course, if we are not a nation of voting fools, we will so throw the rascals out of Congress and the White House that we can repeal the ObamaCare nightmare with all its intended slaves and moochers.

Posted by Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D. at Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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