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	Recovery Room Deplorable Aspects Of Healthcare Needing Redemption Recovery room is a page reserved for current medical care topics and health care system problems that are hotly debated, embedded with questions, and absolutely disturbing to any patient.  They directly or indirectly affect quality of medical care for everyone.  I choose healthcare topics that I consider to be presented to the public in a warped and misleading fashion and ones that I intend to bring into a more realistic view.   At least you will have one doctor's opinion that should make you think! Issue # 2:  (see article archives for previous issues) “Putting Healthcare In The Hands Of Politicians Isn’t A Problem……It’s A Nightmare!” In case you aren’t aware of the new intrusion of politics into your healthcare, let me summarize it for you……it stinks!  The issue of National Health Insurance and healthcare set aside, an even more confusing and already sanctioned legal solution to the health uninsured citizens in many states is in progress. It started in California—who would have guessed?  Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, has proposed extending health insurance coverage to all those in California who don’t have health insurance…..about 6.5 million unhealthy folks.  So what’s the hitch? Making it happen is a simple exchange.  Require every citizen to have health insurance.  In exchange, the Medi-Cal system is opened to everybody, everyone qualifies.  We already know who pays for it….right?  In order to induce folks to swallow the pill and prevent riots organized by taxpayers, bribes are offered.  Tax breaks for employers and individuals who buy health insurance, among several other incentives is supposed to suffice.  And here comes the smack down reality!   The issue of who pays is a drop in the bucket compared to the legislative gymnastics that are coming.  We all would like to move around in this country with the comfort of knowing that wherever we go we have health insurance that will cover us.  Several states already are well along in the legal planning of how to do the same thing.  Another 30% have committed to do so.  Eventually, all 52 states will come up with 52 different sets of healthcare laws, methods for healthcare management, and methods of payment. Karen Kroll points out six of the strategies to increase healthcare coverage: 1.      Limited benefit plans. 2.      Dependent coverage. 3.      Expanded Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance     Programs coverage. 4.      High-risk pools. 5.      Group purchasing arrangements. 6.      Reinsurance (facilitate purchasing pools and small business     programs). Eventually, if National Health Insurance is going to become a reality, the central government will have to make it comply with all 52 state versions of healthcare.  That’s an impossibility.  Should the US government set up their program and force the states to comply, confusion will reign supreme.  That likely could mean that every state that has its own programs working will have to change the whole system again to comply with the Washington hierarchy.  Or, worse yet, the constitutional rights of each state to retain their own system will have to be fought out in the Supreme Court. We know who always wins in such a battle. Wouldn’t it be more expedient to pass the National Health Insurance Law now before it all gets so complex that nothing will happen?  That’s a good idea from a practical point of view, but unacceptable when it comes to elimination of private medical practice.  If the European systems of national health insurance is an example of what will happen to us in the USA, then anyone who studies their healthcare system problems can understand what we will face as well—and it isn’t pretty.  Medical doctors in our country have a lot at stake concerning all this.  How much will they put up with?  You can force patients to comply, but not doctors.  What could doctors do?  What would happen? Doctors will quit medical practice completely.   Plans for medical careers would drop precipitously.   Doctors would change careers promptly.   Drop in number of doctors means longer waits for patients.   The numbers of foreign doctors moving to the US would skyrocket.   Extreme reliance on mid-level providers rather than doctors for care.   Quality of medical care will drop significantly.  The only practical solution for potential doctors is to avoid the profession completely.    If you get what you pay for means anything to you, then you understand why a doctor who spends 25 to 30 years in education…..pays $400,000 or more to get educated….would be upset.  Especially when it comes to earning a salary or income comparable to that of a Fast Food franchise manager who may have never finished high school—then you begin to understand what American doctors will never do.   ******************************************************* Reference: CFO Magazine, April 2007, “States of Health” by Karen M. 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