6 Pages of Obamacare Equals 429 Pages of Regulations

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Is there any truth behind this - ALL AMERICANS WILL RECEIVE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN 2013 PER OBAMACARE

Curious of WY 12:53PM February 13, 2013

This surely makes great sense to anyone!!

leugens of AL 2:27AM February 03, 2012

Youre completely correct on this blog..

chat 18 hetero of AL 11:32AM November 24, 2011

That was a frankly fun writing...

dripable.com of AL 6:35PM November 01, 2011

Tell the subjects whom you meet in other countries that many Americans believe that self-sufficiency is preferable to dependency and that giving people that which they haven't earned doesn't promote self-sufficiency.
You could also tell them that we are a Federal Republic and that it is the responsibility of the States and Local govts to decide which plan (if any) works best for their citizens. The Federal govt has limited and enumerated powers.
You could also tell them that it is absurd to compare a country the size of the US, both geographically and demographically, with a country the size of Kansas.
Btw, your bleeding heart sickens me. If you want to help the poor, do it on your own dime.

Dr Nick of CO 7:26PM May 16, 2011

It comes down to basics - healthy diet and frequent movement. It also helps to avoid toxins (bug sprays, RAID, perfumes, heavy metals, excessive medications for every little thing, etc) and seek to minimize stress (long commutes in heavy traffic, extra debt, fear-mongering news channels on TV...)
I educate my patients on the fact that we're the sum of our choices. When we choose to stuff our faces full of candy and carbs and surf the TV channels and allow the diabetes to get out of control and we finally reach for the insulin pump but fail to put down the candy bar, we've made a choice. When we pop a liver/kidney-toxic NSAID pill for that headache instead of seeing a decent chiropractor, we've made a choice. When we choose to live 1-2 hours away from work and fight blood-pressure-rising traffic, we've made a choice. When we choose to down a pot of coffee in the morning instead of simply going to bed on time the night before, we've made a choice.
What we need is not more third-party coverage for something that should be our own responsibility. We pay for groceries, gas, that $40k SUV, that $5-a-day latte, a $600 iPad, a $150/month AT&T U-verse account, why not pay the friggin doctor who spent 8-12 years obtaining his/her education and licensure? I notice that in general (there are exceptions), people screaming loudest for someone else to foot their medical bills are those who have failed the most at taking care of themselves.
What insurance SHOULD be used for is catastrophic coverage in the event something horrible happens and racks up bills of tens of thousands of dollars, such as a car accident or something on that level.
You get one body. Most people take better care of their cars than their bodies. You can't just trade yours when it breaks down.

Dr. J of TX 4:54PM April 14, 2011

The US healthcare system needs reformation, no doubt. But we do not need Obamacare.
The public health care systems in Europe are pretty good. Until you need a service which is not covered, (a letter simply says "that is not available") or you need a procedure for which they do not have the equipment. Or you need a test performed, but you doctor has already reached his alloted number of such tests for the quarter (one of the ways they try to control cost)
Or you end up in the hospital on Friday afternoon, when only those on death's door will be treated for the entire weekend. A friend of mine had a gallstone attack in Germany on Monday, but the traveling gallstone ultrasound machine (few and far between) was not due to come to her town until Thursday. She hopped on a plane home to Chicago and had the things smashed the next day.
Another friend fell gravely ill while on a cruise and ended up in an Italian hospital. The family had to bribe the nursing staff to get decent food.
If you need an MRI because you snapped a knee on Saturday, you can have it. But not until Thursday, because that is when we turn on the machine. (And they are not common in every hospital like in the US)
There are doctors in Germany who close down several days a week or several weeks at the end of the quarter because they have reached their alloted billing. No matter that they saw patients for this amount of billing. If you need help, you have to wait until a new quarter starts and get on the waiting list with all the others who could not be seen. And don't think you can hop around from one doctor to the next. The system controls who you can see and which specialist you can see and how often you can be seen by a doctor. For example for skin condition "X" the doc can give you x number of treatments. If you are not healed by then, tough luck. No more treatment for you. (Another way to control cost)
Public health insurance is good enough for run of the mill doctor visits. Heaven help you when you need something major. Father of a friend's primary doc in Germany called the hospitatl with suspicion of heart attack, and they gave him a date a week down the road to come in for checkups. When the date came, he was already dead.
Could give you lots of examples like that, and those are just from my circle of friends and family.
Also, the FREE public health systems are not free. In Germany, every working person pays 15.6% of income for health insurance. That is on top of social security and unemployment taxes.
In France they have a VAT (national sales tax) of 21%. In the UK the VAT is 20%. And for that you have to be on a waiting list for almost all types of surgeries, no matter if its breast or prostate cancer or tonsils.
You people who long for government run health care have no idea what you are in for.

K of AZ 8:47PM April 13, 2011

Although I am a US citizen, my work has required me to live for many years outside of the US. Many of those years have been in countries with public health care. I have paid for and experienced both systems. Give me a public health care system any time. Private health insurance is unaffordable and inaccessible to many in the US and the public health care in actually much better than ours in the two countries in which I have lived that have it. Just leave the lobbiests out of it when you put it together so that it doesn't get all screwed up like our attempt did in the US and you will be alright.
I personally know several US citizens who became ill while living overseas and could not return to the US because no insurance company in the US would cover them. They have been forced to live out their lives outside of the US so they can continue to get health care. Citizens in countries with public health care just shake their heads in disbelief and ask me why a country like the US doesn't want the poor to in our country to be able to take their children to the doctor. I have no answer for them because it makes no sense.

Expat of HI 4:10AM April 11, 2011

I got the heck out of medicine because of trash like this. The insane rules and regulations from the government makes everything too complicated, costly, infuriating, and unlivable. When us medical professionals spend more time filling out paperwork than we do with the patients, something is very, very wrong. The federal government is destroying many businesses and health care is just one of them. God help our children and grandchildren.

DrJoel of OH 8:19PM April 10, 2011

Deciphering the PAPCA (probably got that wrong) reminds me of the double helix of DNA....without the code it is meaningless gibberish. Even with the code PAPCA is missing the transcription apparatus, and the energy cycle of ATP....

Gary Levin of CA 2:56PM April 10, 2011