Comments on: Obamacare. https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:00:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-360 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:00:01 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-360 In reply to radajonesmd.

Thank you!

]]> By: radajonesmd https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-361 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:00:01 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-361 In reply to Payline.

Thank you!

]]> By: Payline https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-359 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:12:40 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-359 I just love your blogs. 🙂

]]> By: robert gebhardt https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-358 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:20:39 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-358 Interesting analysis and opinion. I volunteer in Triage now after a long career as a program developer in the field of disabilities. Reading this particular blog entry, I’m reminded of my days as a gunship helicopter pilot in Vietnam covering Medevac . No person left behind or denied care.. No injury too traumatic. No situation, despite the odds, kept Medevac from extracting patients in the most extreme conditions. Weather, enemy fire, terrain, etc., etc. Our flying conditions were always nominal to bad. We were never called in to a calm situation. It was oftentimes chaotic. When the wounded were extracted we flew them to hospital units that were not always in secure areas. The doctors, nurses, medics were subject to rocket, mortar, and sapper attacks. Yet, everyone was ready. Everyone received care. In a limited sense, that was universal health care. And then there were the Medevac and gunship crews that could never fulfill their sacred mission because they were shot down, crashed, were wounded themselves or died. Me, I was lucky. None of our health care providers today have to deal with risks like that, but the risks they do deal with are the ones you so clearly articulated here. Political. Financial. Social. Then there’s there’s the Veteran’s Administration (VA) whose model of care is constantly being scrutinized. Some are even suggesting it as a model for universal health care along with Medicare for All. These are subjects I have strong personal opinions about as I have combat/service connected disabilities. Two years ago I underwent a 13 hour cancer surgery in Burlington. The idea of using the VA for such an operation was never on the table. No pun intended. A discussion for a different time and venue.

]]> By: Danielle https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-357 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:36:56 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-357 Affordable Care Act is not universal healthcare. Civilized nations have it.
Hospitals and physicians are not a business in civilized nations.

]]> By: Teresa Mahaffey, M.D. https://radajonesmd.com/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-356 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 13:40:13 +0000 https://radajonesmd.com/radajonesmd/2019/03/31/obamacare/#comment-356 Spot on! Made the mistake of selling my practice to a behemoth of a “health” system when Obamacare was started. 5 years later, I’m out and starting my own direct primary care practice.

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