So I read an article on cnn today. It was about how doctors are leaving their practices is droves.

I bet you’re saying, but we have a huge problem with lack of doctors in America! We can’t afford to lose any of them! And you’d be right. One of the arguments I see on TV against the health care reform that Barack Obama wants to institute is that there aren’t enough doctors to go around! But why is that?

Well, according to this article, doctors are paid as much by insurance companies today, as they were 15 years ago. Now, call me crazy, but when I look around at what things cost, I can’t buy ANYTHING as cheaply as I did 15 years ago. Why is health care the exception?

Oh but it’s not. Health care costs have skyrocketed. It’s just that insurance companies don’t pay their fair share.

So why is it that consumers insurance policies to cover them and ensure they can go to see doctors has skyrocketed? They claim it’s because the cost of care has skyrocketed… but doctors say they aren’t getting any of that money!

To add insult to injury, their malpractice insurance is something like $150,000 a year. Sounds like double dipping to me! Not only will they not pay the doctors for their services, they gouge them to cover them in case something goes amiss.

One doctor was saying that if a patient comes in with an ailment, he must first contact the insurance company and get approval to treat this individual. This can take days and in the case of some obvious medical condition, could lead to the doctor being sued for not taking immediate action.

But wait, I thought that the gov’t only wanted to get between you and your doctor! Sounds like a load of horse shit to me. If anyone is getting between you and your doctor, it’s private insurance companies!

It’s no wonder there’s so much misinformation floating around right now. Telling people their quality of care is going to decline. That government death panels will deny you care and that the doctor shortage is going to leave you high and dry when you need care… because insurance companies are precipitating that exact senario RIGHT NOW!

When highly trained and seasoned doctors are leaving their professions to make jewelry because they can’t pay their bills anymore, that has to give you pause. No government program or officials are causing this to happen. Greedy insurance companies are.

But… Who trains all these doctors in the first place? I found that a rather funny answer. It’s the government. Medicare pays out over $9 Billion a year to train doctors to meet our nations health care needs. While they are doing this, insurance companies are driving experienced doctors out of business.

Don’t forget… it’s Obamacare that you need to fear. Not the compassionate, caring insurance companies that deny insured people the care need every day. Sure..Right.

I keep hearing about how we need to wake up to what our government is doing and I completely agree. THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP US!!!!!! They are trying to protect us from greedy companies who don’t care about you. They care about the almighty dollar and nothing else.

So PLEASE! Wake up! Educate yourself to what is REALLY happening. Who REALLY has your best interests at heart and it isn’t some cold blooded, uncaring health insurance executive. He’s got his and he wants to make sure he’s got yours too.

For reference, this is the article I read on cnn.com. Educate yourself america. Knowledge is the most powerful tool imaginable!
CNN Article

Fight for your rights. Your right to live is worth fighting for! Don’t let false propaganda from greedy insurance companies rob you of that right!

I think the republicans sure know how to energize their base. Unfortunately their base seems to be the violent, ignorant type.

My dad is a republican. If I had a nickle for every time he told me he hated obama and wants to see him dead, I’d be a millionaire.

I listen to him carry on about how Glenn beck tells it like it is, but when I point out to him things like that green czar guy. I forget his name. I honestly didn’t pay much attention to him.. but anyway. Glenn spent 2 full weeks railing on the guy. Digging through his past. Finding anything he could to discredit him and make him look like a dangerous individual. Well, Glenn didn’t do that because he was protecting america. He did it because that guy founded the group that was pressuring Glenns sponsors to drop him.

Ok.. I went and looked it up on cnn. This is the part of the article that I’m talking about..
Quote:
One of the most prominent conservative voices condemning Jones in recent days has been FOX TV host Glenn Beck.

Jones is a co-founder of colorofchange.org, a group that recently has been pressing advertisers to boycott Beck’s program after Beck called Obama a racist.

So again. It’s not about helping america at all. It was a personal vendetta.

The republicans are the best party at dirty tricks. They have fox news and the intellectually challenged members of our country watch it religiously. Did you know that they actually won a lawsuit brought against them by a reporter they fired? She did a story about monsanto. A VERY scary company. And they wouldn’t let it run. So she ends up fired and sued. The court ruled that it’s not breaking any laws for news channels to not tell the truth. Uh… So I dunno about fair and balanced.

So then we have all these tea party people. I was looking at pics of them today. I saw more confederate flags than I care to see in one day.. and hmm… NO black people. None. I couldn’t find one in any picture. There were plenty of kids holding up anti-obama signs. Ya know.. the same kids we don’t want listening to the president tell them to stay in school and get good grades because it’s indoctrination.

Honestly. The biggest problem is we liberals just sit back and take this bullshit. We “take the high road”. We say, Oh that’s not true. There are no gov’t death panels. (which is really laughable to me, because how many insurance companies have told people they won’t pay for their care.. i.e. people with insurance face death panels every day already, it’s just insurance company death panels). But no one hears us because we aren’t o’reilly or beck or rush, screaming it every single day. I said today, there is NO liberal rush, o reilly or beck. We have no one to whip us up into a frenzy like they do. I guess mostly because liberals tend to be better educated and we don’t need someone to tell us what to think. I don’t know about you, but I don’t watch much tv news at all. I read newspapers and watch a little cnn here and there. I keep myself informed, but I’m not glued to the tv every night watching fox news like my dad and 1/2 the country.

Today, my husband was telling me we need to get involved. Now, I do write to my congressmen. Carney, Specter and Casey. I wrote to them about cap and trade and told them I didn’t agree with it. And I actually got a response from casey and specter. They were form letters, basically telling me thanks, but we are going to do what we are going to do.. But I’ve written several times about health care and gotten nothing. Not even the typical form letter back saying, oh thanks. But we are going to do what we want anyway.

But I think what he meant was we need to start organizing people. The republicans are masters at getting people upset over nonsense. They wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim that they are the only patriots. They use it to lead the simple minded into doing what they want. Which is usually more for the rich and less for the poor.

My dad carrys on about health care.. How it’s going to be for the black lady with 18 kids.. and I try to explain to him that that woman already gets free medical through medicaid. That this health care reform is for people who work, lose their insurance due to a job loss, have diabetes or high blood pressure and can’t get insurance when they get re-hired because of preexisting conditions. People who run small businesses and can’t afford to pay $2500 a month for a policy for him and his wife.. and it always comes back to the illegal aliens and the black lady with 18 kids.

I think unless you have a tv show on fox, republicans don’t hear you.
Maybe it’s just that critical thinking eludes them.

The Bush administration was the scariest presidency every. The patriot act destroyed our constitutional rights, but these tea party people are screaming about health care and obama destroying the constitution?

One thing this has taught me, is that when republicans lose, they lose hard.