Midknight Review makes a rather radical prediction: We may be looking at the beginnings of a dual health economy in America - seriously.

Let's agree on one very obvious fact: the Government cannot raise taxes enough to pay for the inclusion of 31 million new health care clients - there simply are not that many rich folk in this country. More importantly, it cannot even pretend to give better health care to more people without a significant increase in the professional medical population and THAT will not happen if their pay is limited and "making a profit" continues to be demonized.

In short, we have presented the impotence of the Obama mind as it fantasizes on "revolution" and the hostile "transformation" of this country via health care "reform." Hmmmm. Can't you just hear this college educated empty suit strutting his stuff and saying, "JDS thinks I'm sumthin' impotent, I'm sumthin' impotent !!"

Anyway . . . . . .

Understand this, when it comes to hostile takeovers and the Obama legacy of "transformation," what we will see in its stead is a thing we all "Stupid." This country is within 3 to 10 years of failing under the weight of Stupid. California got there four years ago (at least "officially" - it has been overdrafting gross income by billions each of the last 25 years - every single year ---------- dude !! ) and the Massachusetts' Universal Health Care program introduced by Mr. Slick, Mitt Romney, is about to bring that State to its economic knees. Tennessee's portion of the new Medicare costs will be 1.4 billion per year, setting that state up for serious problems almost immediately. It is not alone. We read in the papers this morning that 36 states are preparing challenges to the new health care legislation based on the extreme amount of indebtedness about to be imposed upon them because of Stupid.

But enough of the review. Listening to our local talk radio, KMJ in Fresno, a caller to the Ray Appleton Show told the listing audience that he had received a letter from the local hospital informing him that it would no longer accept Medicare or --- sit down and take a deep breath --- or, or, or, private insurance !! That means this hospital has no intentions of participating in Government controlled health care. The caller was a heart patient. The hospital let him know that it could offer him three different heart care plans, one for $500 annually, another for $1,500, both offering different levels of diagnostic care. A third plan was also offered. This would cost $7,800 per year and would put him in a pool of patients that would benefit from all the necessary help, surgical and otherwise, the hospital could offer.

We are thinking, here at Midknight Review, that we may be looking at the beginning of a entirely new health care economy - one controlled by the Feds on the one hand and on the other hand, one managed by private concerns that do not deal in interstate commerce -- jds.

Write your local doctor or hospital and tell them about this notion. Doctors could offer one level of care for the Medicare folks and a "Cadillac" care package for the remaining customer base. Hospitals could do as is suggested above. And if neither of these ideas work for others, at least those of us who want to be free (doctors included) can begin to think as free people, innovators and entrepreneurs -- you know, those things that have helped to make this nation great and (sorry Canada) exceptional !! As long as local clients are being served, how can this be a bad idea? (jds again )
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