Hasta La Health Plan, Baby
Too bad it wasn’t the Governator himself, because I’d rather read it in a steroid-pumped Austrian accent, but one of Ahhhhh-nold’s minions has this reportedly exclusive essay posted over at the Moderate Voice on Schwarzenegger’s health care plan.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:52 am Comments (1) on Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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January 23rd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I’ve never read the Moderate Voice before, but followed the link in the post. Here is the comment I left on that site:
I’m married to a physician, and when we watched the news where the governor described his health care plan, my husband said, “That’s it. I’m quitting.”
Why? Because you people are happy to tax the doctors 2% of their REVENUE to finance this program. On top of all the restrictive and intrusive regulations imposed by both state and federal government, on top of the low reimbursement rates by insurance companies, Medicare and Medi-Cal, you want the doctors to surrender 2% of their revenue to the government.
And let’s not fool ourselves: a 20% increase in Medi-Cal rates would still amount to less than what Medicare pays, which already hardly pays anything at all.
My husband has given a lot to the community, many times just writing off the bills for patients who can not afford to pay. He hardly earns anything anymore, and yet you are happy to add on to his tax burden. Every year, more of his colleagues are either leaving the state or retiring altogether. He has hung on because no one will be left to take care of our community.
But congratulations, Mr. Schwarzenegger. You’ve just accomplished what I thought was impossible: make my husband decide to quit the profession he used to love. I hope you find enough health care providers to keep your idiotic proposal running.
As for us, we’re leaving.