(Written before health-care had been passed)
1. The Doctors Will be Overloaded With Tasks.
With hundreds of patients coming in for what they think is a “Free” visit to the doctor, it only increases the amount of tasks the doctors must carry out. Doctors of course are trained to multi-task, but the amount of people to deal with will be far too much. It can lead to an increase of mistakes in the treatment of patients, leading to who knows what. This ties into my second point which is:
2. Increased Waiting Lists
An increase in patients obviously leads to an increase in how long you have to wait to be treated. While I’m sure there will still be sections in the hospitals where you go for minor treatments, and a separate section where you go for a more important treatment(Cancer, Surgery, etc.), the result will still be the same. Again, since people will be walking in thinking that this is a “Free” visit, people who before could not afford surgery, will now be flooding in my the thousands, and end up having to wait 3 months. But by that time, the damage will have already set in, and it will have been to late. Even the section where people with a minor problem would go, will be jammed at an unbelievable rate, at which there won’t be enough doctors to help them.
3. Increased Taxes
They say “There is no such thing as a free lunch”, and while of course we’re not talking about lunch, the meaning behind this quote still rings true. We can’t just expect the government to let us have treatment on any and all kinds of issues for free, they need a way to pay the doctors, restock on medicine, and upkeep the facilities. Taxes will increase significantly, whether you use the hospitals frequently or not. They still need to pay for the people who need serious treatment.
4. Doctors Have no Say
The Doctors will not be able to control how our health care system will be run. Instead that will be taken care of by politicians who are not sure what the best way to run it would be, and the doctors of course, do. But our politicians are no where near letting control over this be given to anyone else. It would just mean less power for them(The opposite of what they would want). Even though they have so much power already, they are not ready to spare some to help our country run better, they would rather have a larger pocket book. What I have seen in many circumstances of passing a new law/bill, is that the politicians are always looking for a possibility to get inside the bill and find a way to direct some of the money back to themselves. A perfect example of this is the bailout packages. Most of the money in those was redirected by our politicians to gather more money for themselves, or more money to spend on pork projects. I recently heard of what a certain politician did with his share of the bailout package, he spent it on making a whorehouse one of the “Historical” stops in the tour of the area within his state. Do we really need that? Is that so historical enough that it should be seen by all tourists? I think not.
There’re two dates of time they’ll carve on your stone, and everyone knows what they mean. But what’s more important is the time that is known as that little dash there in between…
