Health Care and Our President-(s)Elect
I cannot abide a direct link to the New York Times, no matter how their business performance cheers me. So here is a link to the NYT, via Instapundit. Thanks, Glenn!
The Physicians' Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports physicians' work with patients, last month published the results of a survey on current medical practice conditions in the United States. Some 12,000 doctors responded, the vast majority of whom were primary care physicians.Nearly half of them said they planned in the next three years to reduce the number of patients they see or to stop practicing altogether. While these doctors rated patient relationships as the most satisfying aspect of practice, over three-quarters felt they were at "full capacity" or "overextended and overworked."
Read the whole thing. With mandatory health care coming, and doctors leaving their practices and virtually no one in med school interested in primary care...well, if you haven't had the incentive to get in shape and take care of your health, now you do.
Energy, economy and now health care: when the government steps in to help you out, you are really on your own.
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Decisions are made either politically or by economic benefit, and some by hubris, which is perhaps overlapping with the first alternative.
Now consider this: I recall during the Hillarycare fight in 1993 seeing an interview with the Dutch minister of health who said quite matter of factly that the Dutch didn't have such high expectations of health care. In other words, once you passed some actuarial point it was decided that a certain procedure wasn't worth public money.
I think that if you were over 65 and needed heart surgery you were SOL.