Freedom Is The Biggest Shortage In Health Care

In Health Care, Freedom Is The Biggest Shortage

Americans cannot make their own medical decisions or decide how to spend their health-care dollars — bureaucrats do that.

By: Deane Waldman, The Federalist, March 17, 023:

The news is filled with stories about a U.S. health care system “plagued with shortages” of money for care, access to care, and doctor time. What they do not mention is the shortage of freedom.

Americans are not free to select their preferred physician or choose the medicines they take into their bodies. Government bureaucrats, not physicians on the scene, triage critically ill patients based on “crisis standards of care”: non-physicians applying a checklist to decide who will live and who will die. Patients cannot choose who will operate on them, where, when, or even if. And of course, Americans cannot decide how to spend their health-care dollars — nameless, faceless bureaucrats do that. This is medical tyranny.

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Doctors are equally un-free. Your assigned physician (assuming there is one) does not choose your medications, a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) program does. Operations are performed where the health plan instructs, and by whom they choose. Providers for Medicare and Medicaid patients must simply accept the federal payment (“reimbursement”) schedule.

Supporters of Biden’s Anti-Inflation Act of 2022 proudly announced the act empowered Medicare to “negotiate” drug prices. This brings to mind a soldier (provider) with a handgun negotiating with an M-1 battle tank (federal government as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service, CMS.) CMS dictates the payments, telling providers to take it or leave it. As providers are bound ethically to care for their patients, they must simply accept whatever payment schedule Medicare and Medicaid announce.

Both patients and providers live under medical tyranny. For providers, this creates an intolerable ethical conundrum. Medical ethics require a physician to provide the best possible care for the patient. Patients believe (wrongly) the provider has the authority commensurate with their responsibility. This is not reality. Doctors can only prescribe drugs the PBM allows. Surgery is done in the cheapest hospital, not the one with the best results.

Death by Queue

Single-payer health-care systems, the acme of government medical tyranny, are in danger of collapse in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Spain. Some experts warn of a similar breakdown here.

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Andy

1 year ago

The biggest problem is that the patients by and large, are uneducated as to the proper care. It’s the same thing if an uneducated car owner brings a car to a mechanic for an annual inspection. The mechanic can tell the car owner anything, and the trusting customer can get talked into “repairs” that he does not need. The solution is for the car owner to educate himself in the basics of auto repair, and for the health care consumer to educate himself as to the standard of care for each visit, procedure, and medical choice so that he will not be fooled into substandard care. For really important things such as major surgery, one wants to seek out a physician that has done the same operation a few hundred times. For routine things, such as a colonoscopy, one wants a gastroenterologist that has a low perforation/complication rate.

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turtlebrat

1 year ago

Part of this problem is most American physicians sold out to managed care and wokism and are puppets of the left -recall how organized medicine denounced hydroxychloroquine and invermectin for covid and many died as a result and still push the clot shot today. American medical schools indoctrinate about equity which is a code word for incompetence.

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Lws

1 year ago

It is called rationed health care. There is onpy so much money…We subsidize the poor and we subsidize the illegals pouring over our borders. The system will break when the money runs out and doctors can not get paid enough to cover cost. When the government cuts further what is paid out and doctors no longer take Medicare….People start dieing. Maybe then we will stop importing people and holding some fantasy that under taxed billionaires will fill the bill.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

No one has had medical freedom since the implementation of omaoscumunist Unaffordable No Care by NAZI piglagosi under the omaoscuminist aa bathhouse barry administration. Before the Unaffordable No care was implemented, I did not have to pay a penny for my insurance under my employer. After the Unaffordable No care was implemented I had to pay $1200+ a year. They now control the Doctors, Nurses Hospitals and the Pharmacies. This is no longer America.

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jack

1 year ago

Sometime ago I decided to take a long vacation from Facebook as I was tired of spending time in “jail.” I still maintain the account but I am active on LinkedIn now. Recently, I posted on LinkedIn remarks from Fr. John Hardon, S. J. (now deceased), once a prominent theologian in the Catholic Church who explained the Church’s teachings on homosexuality. I quoted him and posted it on LinkedIn in the comment section only to have it removed because according to LinkedIn, it was “hate speech.” I fought it and eventually won. However, it told me what kind of people I was dealing with, not to smart and perhaps quite evil.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Reply to  jack

Pamela getting blocked on linked in was the post before (above) this one.

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