President Obama and his accomplices in the House and Senate performed a major transformation of the nation's health care with the unpopular Obamacare law.
There's still hope that a newly elected president can get it repealed. Yes, that means they'll have to replace that tiny portion that attempted to correct some of the problems with the old system. But it would have to be an improvement.
What brings this to mind today is an infuriating opinion piece on the front page of the print edition of the Midland Reporter-Telegram titled "Doctors must bend a little to help fix a broken health care system."
So it's up to doctors to fix a system broken by the government. Doctors probably hate socialism as much as the rest of us. The government dictates they they must work in an environment where prices are fixed at a rate that is too low. But here's what must really hurt. They get condemned for complaining about it and are told that the problem is theirs to fix.
BTW, here's a suggestion to the morning paper. If it's the people you want to help, you could conduct a survey of local practitioners. With more and more people dumped into Medicaid by Obamacare, the morning paper might provide a service by conducting a survey among local doctors and tell its readers which ones, if any, will accept new Medicaid patients.
Related: Medicaid: A Fifty-Year-Old Flimflam.
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