You don't think that strapping future generations with trillions of new debt is not oppressive? You are also aware that something can be oppressive cut and dry? But if you need another example, how about more government control that Congress socialist ideologists are happy with?
The "socialist" buzzword there. That's the label that people like to use when a government plan which uses money to help people is implemented. One of the things that the legislation did by the way was restructure some programs like Medicare to try to contain rising medical costs. And if everyone felt that rising debt was oppressive to future generations of Americans, we would have taken out Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora back in 2001 and gone home. How many trillions would that have saved?
And when has research ever Trumped experience? Oooh, you can dig up info, that is just as good as actually witnessing it firsthand? Never. I've seen pictures of the moon, heard it is quite an experience, that's the same as going there myself? Wrong.
Your experience is limited to...well... your experience. The reason I highlighted the page of reports I did is because it also has a table of patient satisfaction surveys. Every single one of those people has stayed at or received medical services from a VA hospital, and hence has just as much of a right to an opinion as you. If what you say is a problem stemming from the hospitals themselves, then this should be reflected in said surveys. It isn't, and your only explanation is that there's a conspiracy to sabotage the newly established transparency laws to keep healthcare quality low. But of course it is.
And, likening one liver transplant and nine years of illness with one hospital is not like your boo-boo from the dentist. Try four VA hospitals and seven private hospitals, and I have enough experience to say. Private are better than VA, which is what you will get with ObamaCare.
Did it ever occur to you that if you've been sick for nine years and had a liver transplant that your medical experiences sucking might have absolutely nothing to do with what hospital you're in? Here, use your personal experience. How did it compare to the time you were sick for nine years and had your liver transplanted in a private hospital?
And there's another point for you to do some reading. You say that "Obamacare" (you realize that's a purely political label, right) will make all hospitals state run, like the VA, and get rid of private hospitals. Again, read the legislation.
Read the Law | HealthCare.gov Don't be lazy, do your own thinking. Find me where it says that private hospitals will be made illegal, and the current system will become socialized medicine. Go ahead and find the massive pay cuts and removal of specialized doctors while you're at it.
And you think that private healthcare is inherently better than public?
The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems The WHO begs to disagree, and I doubt we've climber much higher on that list since 2000.
Lastly, I am not hiding behind my wife. On the contrary, I have her medical opinion plus about 6 different doctors and countless nurses of whom I have all asked what we have in store if Obama and his policies win. And about 95% of them have agreed, its not currently a system without its flaws, but it will get much worse.
And what are they basing this on? Are they saying it'll be worse because they've bought into the same propaganda you have? Are they saying it'll get worse because there'll be more work that they have to do? Are they saying that it'll get worse because they have to deal with the realities of insurance companies determined to blockade progress at every pass? Is there a particular part of the legislation they dread?
I have friends in the medical field too. I've gotten to hear from their side as well. They don't like the additional hassle they've been put through lately, they've been required to make changes to what had been fairly basic procedure, and they're getting stonewalled by insurance companies refusing to pay for what is good medicine. (ask, and I can give an example). Change is hard. That doesn't mean it's bad. It also doesn't mean that it'll be bad for the quality of care. Legislators detailed the changes, but doctors and hospitals are the ones that have to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. It's not fair to them, but it is what it is.
So, my advice to you. Stop with your "research" and all it is bringing you. And go meet people in the field of which you are making such a hardline stance on.
Already done. as for you, try making some of your own opinions rather than letting others do your own thinking for you.
I'm a Veteran, I know the pros and cons of military service. Not all forms of it, but I can use my experience to express my opinion.
As can I, having lived in a military family for the first 18 years of my life. I know what it was like moving every couple years, never establishing the hometown roots and lifelong friendships that others take for granted. I remember the long times away from my father when he was out of the country on TDY. I remember wondering whether he would be shot and killed when he went to Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. I also remember when my Dad told me about what he had gone through.
I have been treated at military hospitals and received much better care there at those public hospitals than at many private ones. Why is your experience more valid than mine?
You, you've seen "The Hurt Locker"? Does that mean you can express what its like to be in the Middle East? Nope, right now, your just a seemingly bright person with lots of opinions that are based on no experience. You're Joy Behar.
Never actually seen Hurt Locker, and I have barely enough pop culture knowledge to know that Joy is on the View. But my "opinions" on the matter aren't really that, they're facts. I have read the healthcare legislation. You have said many things that you think will happen based off of what your friends/spouse in the medical field have said. I have flatly stated it's not in the legislation. If you are of the
opinion that one part of the bill will lead to such an outcome, feel free to state where and why. As is, no matter how many doctors you get the opinion of, the fact remains that you aren't them. And in this case, their professional opinion, no matter how experienced, is trumped by simply having the ability to read.
Seriously, I am truly curious. You aren't the first to say such things are in the legislation. If massive pay cuts, forced despecialization, and socialization of medicine are in the legislation, point them out. You mentioned that your wife was an RN, if she knows, have her point them out. If she can't find them but was told they were there by a doctor, have the doctor who told her point them out. If you can find them, let people know, or do your civic duty and write your congressman to get those parts changed. If you ask everyone to show you those parts they're so afraid of, and they look but realize they're not there, aren't you all better off without the worry?