Joyanna Adams

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Nobody Wonders

Okay, big kid that I am I went to the Zoo. What I noticed is that the only animals that didn’t hide from the people were the monkeys. I did not see Weiner.

Can you guess which picture is my favorite?

June 15, 2011 Posted by | Life | | Leave a comment

Nobody Cares that Nobody Gets Mad

Nobody Cares

Okay, I’ve ranted like never before this week on Obamacare, and I admit, for all the quotes and “reasonable” reasoning…deep down inside, I’m really mad, because nothing effects you like watching those you love suffer from human stupidity and political greed. I’m afraid I’m about fed up with what I’ve witnessed in my own life when it comes to hospitals and medical care.
The years that I took care of both my parents, (they both had stokes) I really couldn’t believe what I saw in the hospitals. I could write a book, and I might.

So many times, I was thinking, they would have gotten better treatment in some South African medical posts. The insanity and the cruelty, yes, was beyond my comprehension. Granted, later I learned that it was the hospital that was the fault. It was the hospital from a Stephen King novel and every single day, I felt like I was walking around in some underground zombie movie. Dog kennels treat their dogs better than some of the stuff I saw.

Now, this if from a patient point of view, I’m sure the doctors and nurses look at it all quite differently, and you really can’t blame them. It’s the “system” that is broken.

And I promise, I will get off this subject. But not before I say this: There are many young people in this country, that are barely making ends meet, and are self-employed as I once was. In other words, they provide some service, pay quarterly taxes, and yet there is no way they can afford medical care. And when the inevitable happens, they are sent big bills that they cannot pay.

My son, who needed insurance, got some on the internet, some that he could afford, and they have refused to pay a dime. He needs back surgery. He’s young…but he can’t get it. They ask him to sign an agreement saying he had no previous conditions in the last five years. He did, it was true. And here’s what they did—.

According to the law, they cannot deny anyone with preconditions. So, what do they do, these scam artists? They make you sign a document claiming no previous condition, or they won’t accept you, and then refuse to pay anything, using that document as their excuse. And due to the fact that  NOBODY KNOWS what any procedure costs, the doctors and hospitals always charge more if you have insurance.

How many young people like my son are in this very sad state? How many people have been bankrupted due to insurance not paying? And do you really think Obamacare will be any better? No. If you are working, but making very little, you are pretty much screwed. If you don’t work, then the world is your oyster. My son works in pain, to pay for illegals that get free care, but can’t afford to get help.

Well, wait till 2014, then he will get help. Will they approve surgery then? How much longer will he have to wait? And you call this health care? He’s a young man. So you see, it’s not all about the old.

I know, I know….life isn’t fair..and I promise to stop bitching about it…it’s just..personal. And I have every right to be mad…we…as a people and a nation, could do so much better. We once did.

June 15, 2011 Posted by | Obamacare | | Leave a comment

IPAB: The Final Solution

Nobody’s Opinion:

Once upon a time, I was a single parent. I had one small boy, and I chose a professions where I could work at night so that I could get up with my son, and be there when he came home from school. I went to work when he was going to bed (thanks to grandparent’s doting love) and I got home at sometimes 3 in the morning, and yet, I was up at six, making breakfast. Even though in my divorce papers, my X was ordered to pay insurance to cover his son, and half all outside medical expenses, I never saw a penny, and nothing short of an expensive lawyer would have solved that. I had a court order for child support, but same thing. The government could have cared less. I was on my own.
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But back in the 1980’s, a woman could actually get her own affordable medical insurance for herself and her child, so that’s what I did. I had Blue/Cross, and it was very affordable. We had a family doctor who charged twenty dollars a visit, and he would always spend at least fifteen minutes with you. In fact, he took an interest in all of your life, and gave family advice too. At the time, our medical system was not quite yet falling apart.
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And then, in the 1990’s, along came Hillary Care. I remember hearing about all the HMO’s and how wonderful it was going to be. Why, you would only have to make a small co-payment for every doctor’s visit, isn’t that great? This was the result of all those secret meetings that Hillary held behind closed doors. At the time, we all thought— so? It was called “managed” care, and was thought up during Richard Nixon. And you saw very little anywhere negative about it.
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Here’s how it worked: a group of doctors will be paid in advance per patient. The less care doctors provide the more money they keep. The bottom line is: doctors lose their money if they see sick patients with problems or order diagnostic tests. So, while we noticed nothing, little by little, America’s once great medical system was being dismantled.
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And yes, it was great—once.
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The doctors also had to start paying higher and higher insurance premiums, due to the Clinton’s mighty connection to the lawyers..one of their biggest donor groups next to the NEA.
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And now, it’s the new century, and the government has passed, without even reading it, in the middle of the night: “Universal Health Care.” It seems there were many factors leading up to this, but the main one is globalization. Long ago, when Medicare was introduced, the idea became popular for companies to provide “medical plans” as incentives when in competition with each other. And now, we compete with all other countries, whose companies do NOT have to provide medical care, because it’s provided by the state. Big, American International companies told the politicians, “Fix this, or else, no more money.” And they did.
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Common sense says, why not take insurance out of the companies completely, and let insurance companies compete like car insurance? Problem solved. But wait…there are now, 40 million people that don’t even pay taxes, and who don’t have money for insurance (although, they all have big screen TV’s, and cell phones.) Our politicians have encouraged huge invasions of illegal’s and promise all who come here a free lunch, and they get it. They have a plan…it’s in motion, and it’s called: the North American Continent. China has over 4 billion people…we need to catch up.
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It seems, to other countries, Americans are nuts. It would be inhumane NOT to provide care for the poor. What is never mentioned to those other nations is: no one is turned away from a hospital here. No one. We have been giving out free health care for decades to over 40 million illegal’s, and single moms, who now outnumber married people, at great expense to us all. With the upcoming amnesty, they need more doctors, that will work for LESS…so, the cheaper nurse will take their place.
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And that’s why my good doctor was crying, her American dream is fading.
First, physicians will be in the future receiving increased competition from these mid-level practitioners who will both suck away the more profitable patient encounters from the physician while diluting reimbursements for all health care providers in general. Curiously, these changes may be most adverse to the primary care doctors rather than the specialist physicians, contrary to the government-speak promoting the role and reimbursement values of those physicians in primary care. The enormous cost and complexity associated with EMR adoption is forcing smaller medical practices to fold, in droves. The adoption of full-fledged meaningful-use compliant EMR system has been estimated at near or over $100,000 per doc in short-tem costs, and of which the governmental handouts will give, at the most. $66,000, if one can actually achieve meaningful use.
Yes, your babies will be delivered at some station down the street, by nurses, god forbid you have a complication. The older doctors will retire. And the great invasion, (come on, Bush, Clinton, and Obama all side with Mexico) will crush any kind of quality care.
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This isn’t England. We will have 400 million people soon, And we will be 50 percent Spanish by 2050, who will be mostly uneducated. Service jobs will be all they will be capable of. It’s the plan…bring in the babies. I’m convinced this was planned, because, being the book worm that I am, I read that America would become a “service” economy over twenty years ago.
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Now, you tell me— how could they possibly have known that?
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I told you in the first essay, “Doctors, The new Endangered Species” that my doctor was crying at the meeting we all attended. Her patients were mostly older people, on Medicare. Medicare is even now, denying for care that has already been rendered. They just say that the physician over-coded the visit. She told us, sometimes, they might pay her 5 dollars, on $150 dollars due. Also: Every 100 claims a doctor sends to an insurance agency: 33 get paid without any issues, 33 get denied for whatever reason the insurance carrier can come up with, and 34 just disappear into thin air.
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She told us she was being forced by a “third” party, who had basically taken over their private practice. Yes…Obama, the man who wants grandma to just take her pain pill, has nationalized private practices. Doctors no longer work for themselves. They will get screens and orders telling them what to do, and how much they will get paid.
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Welcome to the club, guys.   
And then, there is the new…IPAB—a group of 15 men, unconstitutionally appointed by the President and designed by Obama and Ezekiel Emanuel.
IPAB is to do this by making “proposals” or “recommendations” to limit costs by limiting reimbursements to doctors. This, inevitably, will limit available treatments — and access to care when physicians leave the Medicare system. Each proposal automatically becomes law unless Congress passes — with a three-fifths supermajority required in the Senate — a measure cutting medical spending as much as the IPAB proposal would….George Will
Nobody Asks—is this the same Universal Health care that is all over the world? Do the old all over the world, when told at 65: you have cancer, and we might be able to cure it, but you must not be selfish, we WILL provide you pain pills. Do they say, “Okay, I’ll die, without a fight?”
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I can’t figure this out. We have one life to live. Care should be given no matter what age. Even if the care is expensive…that’s what insurance has always been for. This lady explained it well:
Others ideas of end of life care should not be forced on anyone. First of all, this is not about healthcare, it is about power. If you want to end your life rather than fight what is deemed a terminal illness, fine. You go ahead and do that. I prefer to fight…my life may not be valuable to you, but it is to my children. I will never be silent on anything that puts the government in the middle of my medical treatment or that of my family. This man is nothing but pure evil. (Ezekiel Emanuel)
Ditto that.
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As I was leaving the meeting, the lady next to me said she was in a severe depression. Our doctor had basically told us, she was going to a “concierge” program. If we wanted to continue to see her, it would cost us all from 1500 to 2000 dollars MORE on top of our insurance a year. If we couldn’t come up with the money, she would suggest other physicians. For that money, we would get “preventive” care. She could do this, or retire.
She has been told she must see more people, (?) and she must get rid of the ones she has. Great.
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We have just been kicked out of our beloved doctors care. It’s not only the doctor who is crying.
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As for this nobody: I can’t believe this is happing to me. It took me years to find the right doctor, and I know, I will not find another. My health will get worse.  But that’s not upsetting me as much as another result of Obama care:
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Tomorrow: It’s not just the old that will suffer

June 15, 2011 Posted by | Doctors, Obamacare, Uncategorized | | 1 Comment