This government truly believes you are so stupid that they can change the name of a turd and think you still won't smell it.
And you think I'm insulting?
"Clinic stirs health care dispute; Praised as model, but skeptics warn monopoly on rise" by Alec MacGillis, Washington Post | August 22, 2010
ROANOKE, Va. — Carilion owns the two hospitals in town and six others in the region, employs 550 doctors, and has set off a bitter local debate: Is its dominance a new model for health care or a blatant attempt to corner the market?
Carilion says it represents an ideal envisioned by the nation’s new health care law: a network that increases efficiency by bringing more doctors and hospitals onto one team, integrating care from the doctor’s office to the operating room.
The name for such networks, which the new law strongly promotes with pilot programs, is accountable care organizations, or ACOs.... --more--"Related: Return of the HMOs
No Choice With Obamacare
Yeah, it's too late now. That's why opponents were so adamant!
Also see: A Dollar a Day Keeps Obama in Play
Oooooh, sometimes I wish I lived 200 hundred years ago:
"200 years ago, health care a priority; Doctors’ petition helped give birth to Mass. General" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | August 21, 2010
In the early 19th century, Bostonians largely had two options if they got sick: house calls from expensive private physicians or an overcrowded poorhouse.
So two centuries ago yesterday, in a 2,677-word petition, two of the city’s top doctors called on the city’s gentry to help establish the state’s first public general hospital.
“When in distress every man becomes our neighbour, not only if he be of the household of faith, but even though his misfortunes have been induced by transgressing the rules both of reason and religion,’’ Drs. James Jackson and John Collins Warren wrote.
In other words, whether a good Christian, insane, or immoral, everyone deserves health care.
How far we have fallen.
Eleven years after Warren and Jackson spurred the city to action, Massachusetts General Hospital opened in 1821 in the Bulfinch Building. Yesterday, five of Warren and Jackson’s descendents, four of whom have worked at the hospital, stood on the building’s steps and with hundreds of others gathered on the lawn signed copies of the original petition....
They couldn't have signed a current petition for a decent single-payer system?
Donations slowed with the War of 1812, and it was not until 1817 that the group was able to open a mental hospital....
Some things never change!
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Also see: The Wars Will Make You Mad
You should be furious, America!
