So I asked Mr. B.’s 40ish pediatrician, when he went in for a physical recently, if she was looking forward to working for the feds under Obamacare. She frowned and said, well, looking on the bright side, she might make more money. Peedees, after all, are not high fliers on the physician food chain.
The problem she foresees is all the extra paperwork she’ll have to hire someone to deal with and the inevitable interference in her medical judgement by, as you might think of the new federal Independent Payment Advisory Board, “fifteen philosopher kings who will rule over U.S. health care.”
Not that Mr. B.’s pediatrician doesn’t already see some of that from the health insurance companies, but she fears it will be much, much worse with the feds who are not known for efficiency in anything and don’t have the profit motive as an incentive. “I just might quit and write a book,” she said.
















She is right to be worried, I guess. But even I, with my limited experience with US insurance companies (an that during the period when we all were relatively healthy) remember the hassle they put us through in a lot of trivial situations.
So the government will just add another layer of that hassle.
If Obozo is reelected, there’ll be much more than one new layer to this. A lot of new taxes, especially for business, just for starters. You’re used to socialized medicine. We are not, which is why this is so unpopular and may yet prove to be Obumble’s undoing. Which will be ironic. Reid and Pelosi supervised the writing of this thing that carries his name in the popular mind. He did not do squat.
He was busy playing golf and taking vacations and partying, soaking up all those supposed entitlements due the sons of slavery. Except his black ancestors were not slaves in the US and his white ones owned slaves. That’s a lot of irony for one person to carry.