Million Med March
“It is the thousands of physicians who make up the MillionMedMarch and Docs4PatientCare that are sounding the alarm in recognition that the current legislation will significantly raise the costs of healthcare delivery in America. This is a very dangerous proposition for our patients as the politicians in Washington DC are preparing to spend over $1 trillion dollars of our taxes. As these costs rise, access to care will diminish. Eventually thousands of physicians, clinics, and hospitals will be forced out of business leaving millions of patients insured, but without a doctor. The fundamental objective of healthcare reform must be to lower costs without decreasing its value. If you have a procedure done in a hospital and a scalpel is used, you will be charged in excess of $250 for the scalpel alone. If this legislation is allowed to pass, the taxpayer will continue to buy more $250 scalpels. We MUST lower the cost of the scalpel and all of the other inflated costs that are burdening the system.”
The firey townhall meetings have died down but the real legislative battle for health care “reform” , mostly in secret, is just heating up. The House bill is a whopping 1900 pages and estimates of cost for ten years are in the $1+ trillion range. Any thinking individual should laugh at these estimates, not just for their gross enormity, but because of their pretend certainty. No long term predictions of costs are ever accurate: Medicare now costs 9x what it was estimated it would cost when it was first initiated. Why will this be different?
I am not certain if Million-(fill in the blank)-Marches ever achieve the desired effect that they set out to achieve. But this is certainly a cause worth marching for. Let’s hope this march’s drum beat is heard on the Capitol steps.
