AAPS: "BUMPS IN THE ROAD" The need for an Independent Medical Profession.

Why We Need an Independent Medical Profession. By: Richard Amerling, M.D. In a recent debate, I pointed out that far from helping the uninsured, ObamaCare had created millions of new uninsured. My opponent responded “whenever you try something this big, there are always going to be some bumps in the road.” That statement sums up the totalitarian mindset of the hard left, which is, “the ends justify the means.” So what if millions lose their insurance? We are on the bumpy road to nirvana, where everyone has access to the same level of care, regardless of income. If a relative handful of people are inconvenienced, injured, or even killed, well, that’s too bad for them! It’s all for the greater good. To make an omelet you have to break some eggs! This is what they say! The hard left has a high tolerance for the killing of millions of “bumps in the road” en route to Communist totalitarian nirvanas in Soviet Russia under Stalin, Mao’s Cultural Revolution and “Great Leap Forward” and in the killing fields of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. More recently, Barack Obama used the phrase in reference to the attack in Benghazi, which killed four Americans. The medical profession’s Hippocratic ethic of caring for individual patients, placing their welfare above other considerations, stands in the way of the utopian statists. We stand for those who for the statists are mere “bumps in the road.” We care for those who are and who will be denied care, as rationing inevitably rears its head. We speak out for them. This is why the Left must control doctors. And this is why we must resist. We speak out against the destructive folly of standardized care where one-size-fits-all practice guidelines substitute for the considered judgment of individual physicians and their unique patients. Rationing of care in response to the shortages created by central planning, regulations, and price controls is only the beginning. Leftism is intertwined with anti-humanism, which is literally a cult of death. We see this in their lust to protect abortion, in their quest to limit end-of-life care, to accelerate death through starvation (as in the Liverpool Care Pathway) or euthanasia, which is rapidly gaining ground in Europe and in America. And we see this in the form of radical environmentalism, which views man as a cancer on the planet, as no better than even the lowliest species, and worthy only of depopulation. The pseudoscientific man-made global warming crowd seeks to de-industrialize the West, which would have profound consequences to health and health care, among other disasters. It would be wise to remember another pseudoscientific fad from the early part of the last century that developed a following among the intelligentsia. Eugenics, championed by the Communist Margaret Sanger, promoted selective breeding, forced sterilization, abortion, and euthanasia as a way to improve the human race. It never went far in the U.S. because our private doctors, watching out for their patients, didn’t go along. Not so in Nazi Germany, where the medical profession was under the thumb of government thanks to socialized health care. Doctors under the Third Reich not only went along, they actively participated in euthanizing psychiatric patients and deformed or retarded children. We know where this led. There are not only compelling reasons for doctors (and patients!) to declare independence, there is great urgency that we do so. A government with the power to declare private insurance contracts null and void will not long shy away from declaring private health care arrangements illegal. It is crucial that we rapidly establish a critical mass of tens of thousands of private physicians, who collectively care for millions of patients, before they get around to closing that hatch. Richard Amerling, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and a renowned academic nephrologist at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr . Amerling studied medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, graduating cum laude in 1981. He completed a medical residency at the New York Hospital Queens and a nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has written and lectured extensively on health care issues and is President-elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Amerling is the author of the Physicians' Declaration of Independence and is a seasoned speaker and on-air contributor.

MONTHLY DIRECT DEBIT & TAX CREDIT PROVINCIAL POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

Yearly donation of $2821 = $235/month Yearly cost after Tax credit = $1581

OHIP UNINSURED LAB. TESTS -. MONEY MAKES FOR MODERN MEDICINE.

OHIP policy based on NEVER DEFINED in 44 years "MEDICAL NECESSITY". MEDICAL NECESSITY based on GUIDELINES COMMITTEES which means that here may be a 10 - 15 year delay before OHIP pays for a new test During this delay a Private patient can either pay for the test or have it done in USA (e.g. MAYO LABS vs FEDEX/UPS etc). Interesting that Canuck Federal employees are angry that they will have to pay 50% of Supplementary Medical insurance instead of only 25%.In Ontario the CPSO can attack a Doc for even INFORMING a patient about a non-OHIP paid test. Safest legally and medically to practice with patients who are financially secure.

SPECIALIST vs TRAINEE MEDICINE

In PRIVATE MEDICINE the Specialist commands and the Juniors obey In STATE (& Insurance discounted directly-paid medicine) patients are used to train Juniors who only ask for Specialist advice when they think necessary. Also patients are used as Experimental "Guinea Pigs" in Trials.Also in State Hospitals,to save money,Nurses are used to replace MD Interns.

UK NHS Hospital PRIVATE PATIENTS up to 49%

UK National Health Service has raised Private Patient bed "cap" to 49 per cent.

PRIVATE MEDICINE favoured by both Conservative & Labour leaders.

When discussing private health care, she (M.THATCHER) remarked that she wanted to be able to enter hospital when "I want, at the time I want and with the doctor I want. . . I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my money in my own way."
 
 
(Labour BARON ) Denis Healey also suffered at the hands of the Tories when it was revealed his wife had once used private health care (PRIVATE. SURGERY) When the subject was raised by television presenter Anne Diamond, Healey simply refused to comment and stormed off the TV-AM set.

UK DAILY MAIL: COST of AIDS to TAXPAYERS

MOUNTING COSTS OF HIV TREATMENT

The cost of treating someone with HIV in the UK is estimated to be around £18,000 per year when they are not showing any symptoms.

This is based on the price of care as well as triple-drug antiretroviral therapy.

However, it costs £21,500 to treat patients who are showing symptoms and £41,000 for those with full-blown AIDS.

Patients who have four drugs cost the NHS between £22,775 and £48,000 per year.

The annual cost of providing HIV treatment and care in the UK could be as high as £758 million by 2013, according to a study in PLoS One. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2067496/Number-people-HIV-UK-poised-hit-100-000-infections-rise-6-year.html#ixzz1f6DXIu6F