Fox News Obama Care Class Warfare: There’s Not Enough Doctors For Everyone To Have Health Insurance

Megyn Kelly hosted a panel of doctors to discuss the Affordable Care Act (aka Obama Care) yesterday – and I’m sure you’ll be shocked to know that all three of them opposed it. But what really was shocking was their reasoning that it would create too many patients which would negatively impact those who already have coverage. Rather than consider ways to increase health care providers, they all seemed to think the solution was to make sure there weren’t too many health care consumers. In other words, people should go without treatment so that those who already have coverage are not inconvenienced. Even worse, the doctors complained that too many people would “overuse” medical services.

The doctors complained that there’s already an “excess of patients,” that our system is “unsustainable as it is. We have emergency rooms are teeming as it is.”

But my personal favorite was that Obama Care makes medical care “too easy to overuse. They’re making insurance which should be for a rainy day too easy to overuse. You can use it even if you’re not sick.”

That’s right, this is a doctor complaining that people might seek medical attention too often if it’s too available and affordable.

It reminds me of the Republican health care plan Alan Grayson described in Congress a few years ago: 1. Don’t get sick; 2. And if you do get sick, die quickly.

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ORAXX commented 2012-06-29 11:10:54 -0400 · Flag

Wow! I wonder if that’s a “christian” argument.

Richard Speight commented 2012-06-29 08:47:47 -0400 · Flag

So first they claim that rationing will occur under a socialised healthcare system, now they use the argument that you can’t move to that because there won’t be enough doctors which proves that the system as it stands relies on rationing, but not one dependent upong actual medical need but one based upon the ability to pay.

Tom W commented 2012-06-28 10:06:04 -0400 · Flag

Strangely enough – this “overuse” idea isn’t new, nor is it strictly a neocon/Republican one. It’s a management trope that’s existed in various forms since at least the 1980’s when – business types began exerting an inordinate amount of control over decisions where nuns, nurses, and technical people used to have a lot more input. One request for additional staff was met with the assertion that our laboratory wasn’t under-staffed, it was “over-utilized”: and that was 25 years ago.

truman commented 2012-06-28 09:22:13 -0400 · Flag

Thx4Fish & Visitor 55. Good points. A truly fair & balanced news network would have found one medical practitioner who could articulate them. But of course, this is Fux Noise.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-06-28 08:35:35 -0400 · Flag

Thx4 Fish – "All this really boils down to is scaring people into believing someone else is going to be getting medical care in their place. "

Now that right there is the simple truth that is so offensive to neocons/teabaggers and stupid sheep like twatty/pRick.

I had a lengthy discussion with my friend’s mom about this. She, being an avid POS borally and FoxGOPTV sheep, used the same argument that if more people got insurance we’d run out of doctors. I put it in very simple terms for her. (I mean, really dumbed it down for her so she’d understand since that’s what one has to do when explaining anything to FoxGOPTV sheep.) I told her that there are about 350 million people in the U.S. and about 50 million of them are without insurance. That means that the majority, about 300 million people have insurance and we don’t have a problem with doctor shortages, so how will getting 50 million more people insured all of a sudden make us short on doctors? She of course couldn’t counter that, so she reluctantly admitted that it was a stupid argument.

Few things offend stupid, mindless neocons/teabaggers and FoxGOPTV sheep more than the plain simple truth.

Richard Santalone commented 2012-06-28 07:38:21 -0400 · Flag

@Rick Patel Hmmmmmmmmm, obviously you are a VERY STAUNCH SUPPORTER of the Republican health care which can be summed up as follows:

1. Donât get sick
2. And if you do get sick, die quickly.

’Nuff said.

doors17 commented 2012-06-28 07:02:58 -0400 · Flag

No matter what the outcome is just keep in mind that the members of the Supreme Court and congress who voted against this will be receiving free government heath care for life.

Rick Patel commented 2012-06-28 06:16:53 -0400 · Flag

Why is plain simple truth so offensive to liberals?

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-06-28 04:39:54 -0400 · Flag

All this really boils down to is scaring people into believing someone else is going to be getting medical care in their place.

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-06-28 04:35:32 -0400 · Flag

Why wont the free market, the patron saint of capitalism, take care of bringing in more doctors? If more drs are needed the AMA will be forced to take the limits off medical school enrollment. Better still we might get more physicians assistants, nurse practitioners and midwives who cost less and provide quality routine care. Change, it can be a scary thing.

George Kafantaris commented 2012-06-28 01:52:23 -0400 · Flag

Why are we polarized over the insurance mandate when it actually makes us pay our medical bills; and gives help and dignity to millions of uninsured Americans?
“The insurance mandate is socialism, plain and simple.”
If it’s socialism, you’d have to buy it from the government, which would also tell you what doctor or hospital to go to. But you can buy health insurance from anybody, and you can get treated by the doctor and hospital you want. What’s socialist about that?
“Can’t you see, the government is making us buy insurance. We have no choice in the matter.”
Do you have a choice not to get hurt, or not to get sick? Why then do you want a choice not to have insurance to pay for it when you do?
States in fact already have an individual mandate for car insurance, and they have been putting uninsured drivers in jail for years.
“That’s different. Driving is a privilege.”
Then free health care must be a right in your book. Maybe this idea came from hospitals continuing to treat the uninsured the last half century.
The trade off to us living in a civilized society is that we have to follow rules we don’t agree with. In return, we get great many things, including goods and services that otherwise would be unavailable. But, we still have to pay for them. The mandate makes sure that we do.
What’s wrong with that?