Why people running for office should experience the real world. So I wake up this morning with my right ring finger injured from a prior incident. A granuloma developed and would not stop bleeding over night, and I lost a lot of blood. With the injury still bleeding I called a number of general surgeons and dermatologists seeking an appointment to have it cauterized, none of which had any availability. Still bleeding. Off to the emergency room, where I waited and was sent home with a gel to stop the bleeding. It worked for about 30 minutes. Still bleeding. I bring this up because I am still sitting here bleeding and all of these problems with our healthcare delivery system will be exacerbated with the onset of #Obamacare. With government enforced price controls via IPAB the price signals which would, in a market system encourage more doctors to enter the specialty, are broken and encouraging scarcity of service. Emergency rooms will become even more crowded as people who cannot get an appointment with a specialist will, out of desperation, seek treatment in the emergency room. Both of the above factors will encourage decreased doctor supply, increased patient demand, quality problems […]
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