Surveys Say: NO TO OBAMACARE
1st we have a poll of medical doctors that doesn't bode well for the so-called greater availability & affordability of health care. I don't know if my physician was 1 of those surveyed. But I know from my conversations with him that he probably is 1 of that 46.3%. & I can't say I blame him.
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll that should cause significant concerns for backers of the pro-abortion Senate health care bill finds nearly half the nation's physicians would consider quitting if the bill becomes law. The New England Journal of Medicine survey indicates 46 percent of doctors would consider leaving their practice.
The poll finds 46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of a public option will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.
Doctors also seem to understand the impact that will have as 72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
The medical journal issued an editorial saying it didn't think that many doctors would quit but did worry about the adverse impact.
“While a sudden loss of half of the nations physicians seems unlikely, a very dramatic decrease in the physician workforce could become a reality as an unexpected side effect of health reform," it said.
Another 62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed to the sweeping overhaul that is in legislation.
The respected medical journal also found 41% of physicians feel that income and practice revenue will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 30% feel income will “decline or worsen somewhat” with a public option.
Just 28.7 percent of doctors support the pro-abortion health care bill pending in the House
The Medicus Firm, a leading physician search and consulting firm based in Atlanta and Dallas, conducted the survey.
Kevin Perpetua, managing partner for the Medicus Firm, commented on the study, according to CNS News.
“Many physicians feel that they cannot continue to practice if patient loads increase while pay decreases,” Perpetua said in the study. “The overwhelming prediction from physicians is that health reform, if implemented inappropriately, could create a detrimental combination of circumstances, and result in an environment in which it is not possible for most physicians to continue practicing medicine.”
“Health-care reform and increasing government control of medicine may be the final straw that causes the physician workforce to break down," he concluded.
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The poll finds 46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of a public option will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.
Doctors also seem to understand the impact that will have as 72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
The medical journal issued an editorial saying it didn't think that many doctors would quit but did worry about the adverse impact.
“While a sudden loss of half of the nations physicians seems unlikely, a very dramatic decrease in the physician workforce could become a reality as an unexpected side effect of health reform," it said.
Another 62.7% of physicians feel that health reform is needed but should be implemented in a more targeted, gradual way, as opposed to the sweeping overhaul that is in legislation.
The respected medical journal also found 41% of physicians feel that income and practice revenue will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 30% feel income will “decline or worsen somewhat” with a public option.
Just 28.7 percent of doctors support the pro-abortion health care bill pending in the House
The Medicus Firm, a leading physician search and consulting firm based in Atlanta and Dallas, conducted the survey.
Kevin Perpetua, managing partner for the Medicus Firm, commented on the study, according to CNS News.
“Many physicians feel that they cannot continue to practice if patient loads increase while pay decreases,” Perpetua said in the study. “The overwhelming prediction from physicians is that health reform, if implemented inappropriately, could create a detrimental combination of circumstances, and result in an environment in which it is not possible for most physicians to continue practicing medicine.”
“Health-care reform and increasing government control of medicine may be the final straw that causes the physician workforce to break down," he concluded.
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Then we have another poll that shows the continued over all decline of sopport for what the Dems are doing in their health care reform bill. So naturally they are resorting to even more boldface lies & spins to justify their actions. & as usual the Main Stream Media is working hand in hand to help them in their evil deeds.
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new Wall St. Journal poll finds opposition to the pro-abortion Senate health care bill at its highest levels yet, but a top Democrat misrepresented the poll. The new WSJ survey follows a recent Rasmussen poll showing a majority of Americans oppose the bill that will fund and promote abortions.
The Wall St. Journal poll found that opinions have solidified against the government-run health care legislation, with 48% calling it a "bad idea" and 36% viewing it as a "good idea."
The 48 percent saying the bill is a bad idea is an all-time high for the WSJ poll dating back to its first survey on the issue in April 2009.
Those saying it is a good idea are down from its high in September and October, when 38-39 percent of Americans said so.
Despite the clear split among Americans in opposition to the pro-abortion health care bill, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat behind Nancy Pelosi, misrepresented the results.
"Since the President addressed the nation on health care, the support has gone up 18 points," Hoyer said on ABC's Good Morning America. "And a Wall Street Journal poll that just came out shows a majority of those responding indicate they're for the bill."
Philip Klein of the conservative American Spectator noticed the misleading comment and didn't let Hoyer, an abortion advocate, get away with it.
"This morning House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tried a new tactic: lying about what's in specific polls," he wrote today. "The problem about telling a specific lie rather than making generally misleading or silly statements, is that when you're specific, it's easier to point out when you're lying."
Yet instead of calling Hoyer out on his demonstrably false statement, George Stephanopoulos just said that the poll presented a "mixed message."
"While it's true that other questions in the poll presented a more complex portrait of public opinion, the fact is that there's no way to interpret this poll as showing majority support for the legislation," Klein said.
A new Rasmussen poll released earlier this week showed just 43% favor the pro-abortion health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats while 53% oppose it.
Americans who hold the most passionate views one way or the other are also strongly opposed to the plan -- as Rasmussen found 23% who strongly favor the plan and 46% who strongly oppose it.
"The numbers are virtually unchanged from last week and are consistent with findings in regularly tracking going back to just after Thanksgiving," the reputable polling firm said.
Democrats continue to overwhelmingly support the plan, while Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party strongly oppose it. Most voters (55%) would rather see Congress scrap the original plan and start all over again.
Under the Senate health care bill that will be the main bill Obama and Democrats push through Congress, there is no ban on abortion funding. While some states can opt out of funding abortions under the plan, taxpayers in other states will be forced to pay for them.
But the bill contains other pro-abortion problems that are concerns for pro-life advocates.
The bill requires that at least one health care plan be promoted across the country that pays for abortions, more abortion funding would come via the affordability credits, and many of the so-called limits on abortion funding in the Senate bill are temporary and could expire or be overturned at a later date.
The Senate health care bill also pays for abortions under the Indian Health Service program.
And it contains the Mikulski amendment that would allow the Obama administration to define abortion as preventative care and force insurance plans to pay for abortions.
Finally, the Senate bill does not contain language needed to offer full conscience protection for pro-life medical workers and facilities.
The Wall St. Journal poll found that opinions have solidified against the government-run health care legislation, with 48% calling it a "bad idea" and 36% viewing it as a "good idea."
The 48 percent saying the bill is a bad idea is an all-time high for the WSJ poll dating back to its first survey on the issue in April 2009.
Those saying it is a good idea are down from its high in September and October, when 38-39 percent of Americans said so.
Despite the clear split among Americans in opposition to the pro-abortion health care bill, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat behind Nancy Pelosi, misrepresented the results.
"Since the President addressed the nation on health care, the support has gone up 18 points," Hoyer said on ABC's Good Morning America. "And a Wall Street Journal poll that just came out shows a majority of those responding indicate they're for the bill."
Philip Klein of the conservative American Spectator noticed the misleading comment and didn't let Hoyer, an abortion advocate, get away with it.
"This morning House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tried a new tactic: lying about what's in specific polls," he wrote today. "The problem about telling a specific lie rather than making generally misleading or silly statements, is that when you're specific, it's easier to point out when you're lying."
Yet instead of calling Hoyer out on his demonstrably false statement, George Stephanopoulos just said that the poll presented a "mixed message."
"While it's true that other questions in the poll presented a more complex portrait of public opinion, the fact is that there's no way to interpret this poll as showing majority support for the legislation," Klein said.
A new Rasmussen poll released earlier this week showed just 43% favor the pro-abortion health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats while 53% oppose it.
Americans who hold the most passionate views one way or the other are also strongly opposed to the plan -- as Rasmussen found 23% who strongly favor the plan and 46% who strongly oppose it.
"The numbers are virtually unchanged from last week and are consistent with findings in regularly tracking going back to just after Thanksgiving," the reputable polling firm said.
Democrats continue to overwhelmingly support the plan, while Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party strongly oppose it. Most voters (55%) would rather see Congress scrap the original plan and start all over again.
Under the Senate health care bill that will be the main bill Obama and Democrats push through Congress, there is no ban on abortion funding. While some states can opt out of funding abortions under the plan, taxpayers in other states will be forced to pay for them.
But the bill contains other pro-abortion problems that are concerns for pro-life advocates.
The bill requires that at least one health care plan be promoted across the country that pays for abortions, more abortion funding would come via the affordability credits, and many of the so-called limits on abortion funding in the Senate bill are temporary and could expire or be overturned at a later date.
The Senate health care bill also pays for abortions under the Indian Health Service program.
And it contains the Mikulski amendment that would allow the Obama administration to define abortion as preventative care and force insurance plans to pay for abortions.
Finally, the Senate bill does not contain language needed to offer full conscience protection for pro-life medical workers and facilities.
This should just be more proof that what the Dems are doing isn't about health care reform. It isn't about saving us money while improving our access to quality health care. What it is really about is the Dems enabling the Federal government to take greater control over our lives & take us even close to the total destruction of our country by making it a dictatorship under their control. A dictatorship sold out to the "culture of death" where abortion becomes THE sacrament of the secular humanistic religion that will become the official state religion as well.
Each day I keep reading how the battle is going. & each day that we don't see a vote is another day where I still see some hope we can turn back.
Please keep praying for ObamaCare to fail. Please pray for our leaders to repent of their pride & arrogance as well as their willingness to defy natural law & God's law. Pleae pray we return to those Godly prinicples our Country was founded on & enshrined in the Declaration & Constitution.
Remember what Founding Father, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1st VP & 2nd President of the USA, John Adams, said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Ben Franklin, another Founding Father who was at the Constitutional Convention & signed it as well as the Declaration of Independence: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
George Washington, Father of our Country, signer of the Constitution & 1st President: "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education ... reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
& from his farewell address: : ”Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
I still have hope for this country. As the Bible reminds us: "And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sine and will heal their land." 2 Chron 7:14 (Douay-Rheims Bible)
If we listen to & act on God's word we can avert the destruction of this country that we are facing. But the time is short. We must act now.
Labels: ObamaCare
posted by Al @ 6:29 AM
1 Comments:
At 19/3/10 12:05 AM ,
TH2 said...
I really liked this line: "A dictatorship sold out to the "culture of death" where abortion becomes THE sacrament of the secular humanistic religion that will become the official state religion as well."
Bang on
I, too, will pray for the bill to fail.
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