http://bradharper.com/2008/01/10/socialized-medicine-violates-the-13th-amendment/ an outlet for the sake of my wife and friends... Sat, 19 May 2012 06:20:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://bradharper.com/2008/01/10/socialized-medicine-violates-the-13th-amendment/#comment-553 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:27:06 +0000 http://bradharper.com/2008/01/10/socialized-medicine-violates-the-13th-amendment/#comment-553 [...] And another bloated, inappropriate and menacing arm of the Government is born. By what right does the Government deem the appropriateness or cost-effectiveness of my private health concerns? The only moral and practical guide for both mine and a physicians decisions is our rational judgment. America justly discarded such guiding notions in 1865, but collectivist-statism has smuggled them back in. What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make. [...] […] And another bloated, inappropriate and menacing arm of the Government is born. By what right does the Government deem the appropriateness or cost-effectiveness of my private health concerns? The only moral and practical guide for both mine and a physicians decisions is our rational judgment. America justly discarded such guiding notions in 1865, but collectivist-statism has smuggled them back in. What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make. […]

]]> http://bradharper.com/2008/01/10/socialized-medicine-violates-the-13th-amendment/#comment-552 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:06 +0000 http://bradharper.com/2008/01/10/socialized-medicine-violates-the-13th-amendment/#comment-552 [...] That is the ultimate goal of our anti-conceptual leaders, and to the extent that we’ll let them. As they attempt to work their way towards that goal, our standard of living will suffer in every aspect. One of the most intimidating venues is the socialization of medicine. Those in the medical field are already responding as any individual subjected to the threat of slavery would, resistance and avoidance. In the last several months there have been reports in medical journals about an impending shortage of primary care physicians. This spring in the health policy journal Health Affairs, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the federal Department of Health and Human Services published a study that projected a generalist physician shortage of 35,000 to 44,000 by the year 2025. The researchers based their figures on current physician usage patterns and did not take into account increases that might occur because of rising access to health care. [...] […] That is the ultimate goal of our anti-conceptual leaders, and to the extent that we’ll let them. As they attempt to work their way towards that goal, our standard of living will suffer in every aspect. One of the most intimidating venues is the socialization of medicine. Those in the medical field are already responding as any individual subjected to the threat of slavery would, resistance and avoidance. In the last several months there have been reports in medical journals about an impending shortage of primary care physicians. This spring in the health policy journal Health Affairs, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the federal Department of Health and Human Services published a study that projected a generalist physician shortage of 35,000 to 44,000 by the year 2025. The researchers based their figures on current physician usage patterns and did not take into account increases that might occur because of rising access to health care. […]

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