Post Election Wrapup

@chaski Said

I started "Jonesing" for a campaign/poll/voting results up date.

Thank god for CNN and Florida.

CNN can't move on and Florida hasn't figured out who we voted for yet.

@nevermind_who Said

I was really looking forward to that. I wish we could have some sort of ordinance that requires you to remove political (support) signs within a week after elections.

@Alkaia Said

I'm sitting back now watching to see how many wealthy businsess owners leave the country with thier jobs knowing that they are about to get a huge tax put up on them.

Might be a good time to start a survival forum

@paramour Said

This is why you should always have a go-bag packed and readily available.

@Alkaia Said
obamacare will cost us more lives than hurricane sandy

@jonnythan Said

How? Be specific.

@El_Tino Said


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@Alkaia Said

My profession is in Healthcare btw

I'll try to make this short.

There are lots of cuts coming starting Jan 1st 2013. Some of the biggest are in cardiology, radiology and pathology. ( specialist )

Here's a couple of links
https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/oncology-imaging/astro-pushes-cms-stop-300m-cuts-cancer-care

https://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Enews/Urologists-face-2-cut-under-proposed-2013-CMS-fee-/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/781533

https://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&cntvwrPtlt_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2FcontentViewer%2Fshow&_windowLabel=cntvwrPtlt&cntvwrPtlt%7BactionForm.contentReference%7D=statline%2Fspecial_report_final_2013_physician_fee_schedule.html&_state=maximized&_pageLabel=cntvwr

This is to medicare ^^^, medicaid patients. There are some other cuts that will be happening as well to people with gov insurance.

What is currently happening is healthcare professionals are doing more with less already. Its been a tuff few years.

Some, maybe many doctors will stop offering certain test. And some of these test because of thier cost to perform will be hard to get a appointment to.

and eventually the standard of care will be reduced in order to keep up with the additional people on the rolls, people doing too much work with few less people never is a good thing, its a known cause of medical errors.

Then theres the problem that many doctors just may drop taking medicare or mediaid completly. Many have already here.

So in a enviroment like that. people are going to die. Thier diagnosis will take longer giving what ever cancer they may have had time to metastisize.

So when you hear people saying oh the gov is telling the doctors what to do and its death panles. This is what they really are tlaking about. Because a lot of these specialized test the gov wont pay for unless there is a very very hard working doctor on the other end fighting with the gov insurance to get you a referal for a specialist because it cost a lot.

Hope this helps.

@chaski Said

Interesting, perhaps true, and worthy of some research.

Do you realize that "obama care" with the "individual mandate" as people call it started as a Republican initiative back in 1989, and was pushed heavily by many "health care" lobbyists and in large part mirrored Romney's plan?

The Republicans only turned against it because Obama and the Democrats adopted it.

Of course the Tea Party invented their own take on the whole thing, but then the Tea Party is in large part responsible for the Rep Party loosing this election. Reps should cut them out like a cancerous tumor.

@Alkaia Said


I dont hate the tea party....

@DiscordTiger Said

That is a cat, just begging for a belly rub.

Or it is a trick to trap itself a mid-morning snack.