In Health Care, Freedom Is The Biggest Shortage

There are many stories in the news about the U.S. healthcare system “plagued with shortages” Access to care, money for care and doctor time. They do not mention the lack of Freedom.

Americans cannot choose their physician of choice or the medicine they want to take into their bodies. Critically ill patients are triaged by government bureaucrats and not doctors on the scene. “crisis standards of care”Non-physicians use a checklist to determine who will live and die. Patients can’t choose where, when, and if they want to be operated on. And of course, Americans cannot decide how to spend their health-care dollars — nameless, faceless bureaucrats do that. This is medical tyranny.

Doctors can be equally helpful. un-free. If your assigned physician is not able to choose your medication, the pharmacy benefits management program (PBM), does. Operation are done by the health plan, where they direct. Federal payments are accepted by Medicare and Medicaid providers.”reimbursement”) schedule.

Biden supporters proudly announced that the Anti-Inflation Act 2022 empowered Medicare. “negotiate” Prices for drugs. This reminds me of a soldier (provider), who has a handgun. negotiating An M-1 battle tanks (federal government as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service, CMS.). CMS directs providers on how to pay, telling them to accept it or not. Providers are legally bound to provide care for their patients and must accept any payment schedule Medicare or Medicaid offers.  

Both patients and providers are subject to medical tyranny. This presents a difficult ethical problem for providers. Physicians must ensure that the patient is receiving the best medical care. Patients wrongly believe that the provider has the authority and responsibility to provide the best possible care. This is false. The PBM only allows doctors to prescribe drugs. Surgery can only be performed in the most affordable hospital.

Death by Queue

The United Kingdom, Australia and Spain are facing collapse of single-payer health-care system, which is the pinnacle of government medical tyranny. Experts warn of a similar collapse here.

The health-care system exists to keep people healthy and save lives. It is important to act promptly Medical care. Death by queue is the best example of system failure: people dying in wait for technically feasible care are not provided with it in time. Wait times are a measure of how long they take to receive it.

The average wait time for a primary care physician was 99 days before the Affordable Care Act was passed. The wait time for primary care doctors rose to 122 days after the ACA was passed.

The wife of the author waited seven years to see her primary physician for chronic abdominal pain. It was not operable pancreatic carcinoma. She died 22 months after diagnosis. Could things have turned out differently if she had received chemotherapy? Timely care?

An internal Veterans Affairs audit concluded “47,000 veterans may have died” Waiting in line to receive medical care. In Illinois, 752 Medicaid enrollees died while waiting for treatment in 2016.

U.S. Health Care is not able to deliver timely care, despite the use of advanced technology and many highly-trained doctors and nurses.

Three reasons why medical care is not accessible

Inaccessible medical care can be attributed to three factors: federal medical tyranny.

The lack of providers is the first. There are not enough doctors to care for all the patients. Physicians are becoming less willing to accept Medicare or Medicaid payment schedules that are low or avoid the administrative headaches. On average, 31 percent refuse to treat Medicaid patients. Texas has more than half of these doctors. This problem is made worse by the rising number of doctors who retire early.

An increasing number of patients are demanding healthcare, especially care that is free.”free”), government-supplied Medicaid coverage. In 2000, 15.6% of the U.S. population was covered by Medicaid. This percentage nearly doubled by 2022 to 25.7 percent. That’s 91,342,256 Americans. Increased death rates due to waiting in line is a result of having more patients and fewer physicians.

The regulatory burden also consumes providers’ time. Doctors spend so much time filling out forms — hospital privileges, insurance renewals, medical scorecards, billing requirements, compliance, and security, to name but a few — they have no time to talk with, much less Think Concerning, a patient. Patients complain most about the lack of attention they receive from doctors when they finally reach the doctor. 

Third, Americans are dying in the queue because of bureaucratic financial diversion. The U.S. spent $4.1 Trillion on this. “health care” 2022 It will cost nearly half that amount Produced without care! Instead of paying hospitals and providers to provide care, the money was used for administration, bureaucracy and oversight. 

Washington’s medical tyranny is directly responsible for the physician shortage and regulatory burden as well as bureaucratic diversion.

Washington’s medical tyranny requires a simple, but politically unacceptable response: The federal government must give up its power to care for the patients.

Reclaim our medical autonomy — our constitutionally guaranteed Freedom. Patients should have the freedom to make their own medical decisions and decide how they spend their health-care dollars. Reconnect patients directly with their doctors — no third parties in between. State-based medical safety nets are created for the poor.

It is possible to have a Washington-free, patient-controlled system that is more accessible than the current system.