Surprise, surprise!
Another untruth in the selling of Obamacare emerges:
“Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor.” The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through certain networks, just as in the current system. And only plans that existed in their current form on March 23, 2010, are even eligible to be “kept.” The vast majority of plans will be new, subject to a raft of new regulations, requirements, and restrictions.
Is anyone on earth surprised?
I remember once, when I was a young woman of about nineteen, I went to a gynecologist who decided to do a very minor procedure on me. She told me it wouldn’t hurt. And yet when she started, it hurt quite a bit.
The pain was not excruciating, and the procedure was supposed to be quick. But it frightened me greatly because I thought the pain meant something wasn’t going right. So I yelled out in alarm, “It hurts!” She just said “Yes” and proceeded.
It was all over in a minute or two, and afterward I asked her about what had happened and why it had hurt. She told me that it always hurts.
I was stunned, and asked her why, then, she had told me it wouldn’t. Her response was, “I didn’t want you to refuse to do it.”
This was a long time ago. Nowadays I probably would report her to some sort of board. But in those days lying to a patient like that was considered not such a big deal, although I have no idea whether it was standard. I never went back to her again, although she’d been highly recommended. And the fact that I’m repeating this story all these many years later is an indication of just how much I detested what she’d done.
That’s Obamacare, in a nutshell. “This won’t hurt”—in order to get our acquiescence. The pain comes later.
Two euphemisms I’ve heard for this is going to hurt are discomfort and pressure.
There are more holes in Obamacare than there are digits to plug them. Imagine, if it’s possible, the result of fixing the shambles, which our august legislators are more likely to attempt than jettisoning it entirely.
BTW, the archaic sense of the word ‘shambles’ is slaughterhouse, which I think particularly apposite, figuratively, and literally.
This is just another gift to the republicans, but I’m not sure they will use it to the max. The House, instead of trying to get the individual mandate postponed, should be insisting that BHO fulfill his oath of office and faithfully execute the law of the land which is Obamacare in its entirety must be enforced on 1/1/14. After all there is no gain without pain.
At some point the outrage du jour begins to lose a little of the shock value it would have possessed in an earlier administration. There have been so many criminal actions, so much that has been done that is extra constitutional; so many allies alienated and enemies appeased; actions to deliberately increase racial strife, there seems no end.
And the forlorn hope that this will be the final straw. At long last the media will begin to recognize the danger and finally begin practicing a little honest journalism.
The only reason for the delay of the employer mandate is the upcoming election season.
Personal Opinion :
Lots of voters are going to loose jobs and benefits over this. The Obamacans don’t want that crowd filling the polling stations. So delay it, till after the elections.
No delay. Let it happen on schedule. Right before the elections.
I’m not sure how they are going to keep the doctors they like, when those doctors are going to retire due to Obamacare and lawsuits.
What are the powers that be going to do, lock up the doctors and force them to use medicine?
neo,
“Is anyone on earth surprised?”
Well yes actually, millions of clueless, trusting liberals will be greatly surprised but never doubt, they’ll buy the MSM’s assurances that it’s Bush’s fault, then satisfied that they have someone to blame, they’ll get on with their busy little lives.
Clueless drones busily supporting the creation of the nanny state which will absolve them of all personal accountability.
As for the Dr, don’t you realize that it was for your own good? Silly child, just let the tin god handle it.
As for today, don’t count on a governing board to take notice. Firstly, it would be your word against their’s. Secondly, unless the Dr is a conservative or ‘troublemaker’ (same thing?), the board is there to protect the profession, not ensure that they’re accountable.
Only in the most egregious circumstances, where it threatens the profession will disciplinary action be taken. It’s that way with most ‘professional organizations’… That’s not pessimism, that’s reality. Unless you have a solid case, have the resources and are willing to sue, chalk it up to experience and move on.
The disingenuous always manage to find euphemisms.
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, it is instinctual to turn to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” G. Orwell
Our august legislators are more likely to attempt fixing the shambles rather than jettisoning it entirely. They will continue to do so until the mess is so bad that they can claim that as a matter of practicality, returning to the prior arrangement is doomed to failure and that only by turning to single payer, government healthcare can the problems be successfully addressed.
Au contraire parker, we can be sure that republicans will not use this gift effectively. After all, when did they last do so?
The media will not begin to recognize the danger in time. Obama’s secret meetings with ‘select’ journalists, spying on the AP, “U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans”, if all of this is not sufficient to awaken the media, then (as we all realize) they are actively resisting awakening and will not do so until forced to, which will of course be far too late.
Yes, the delay in the employer mandate is due to the upcoming election season. Congress can do little but will do nothing. The dems hope to regain the House and if they do, no doubt have plans to ameliorate the ObamaCare criticism, so that they can once again steal a Presidential election.
Yes many doctors are going to retire due to ObamaCare and lawsuits. Get used to nurse practitioners acting as ‘gateways’ to GP Doctors, much as GP’s do for specialists today.