The Obamacare Elephant

A friend of mine once told me that when you take on an elephant you do so a little bit at a time.

Not an original quote I know. This saying has more than likely been around since Hannibal crossed the alps and the Roman soldiers first came face to face with these large mammals.

All the other issues aside on Obama's current healthcare. Forget for a moment it promotes government paid abortion or allowing illegal immigrants care from the moment they cross into this country and before they pay a dime into it. Don't even think about the fact that it will spend huge amounts on women's health issues while men will continue to pay more into the system. Don't worry yourself that until age 55 women use healthcare 3 or more times as much as men yet will not have to pay more for their insurance like men do in auto and life insurance. Pay no mind to the fact that union members will not be taxed for this universal healthcare while everyone else will.

Put all those points out of your mind and focus on one fact.

There are approximately 800,000 doctors in the United States today. This number includes specialist and general practice doctors and is made up of about 20% foreign trained doctors as well.

It takes at least 8 years to train an intern from the time they enter college until they start their internship I believe. I am sure some can get this done much faster and I am sure some do. For emergency medical purposes lets say we count interns as doctors which may bring our total upto around 900,000.

I know that we have doctor shortages now. Long waits to get into see doctors and areas were no doctors are to be found. Yet now the leftist progressives want to start adding almost 50 million people into this mix?

Yes I think healthcare should be available to everyone but it cannot be done the way the progressives are trying to do it. The system will be totally over run and crushed.

To take on this elephant we must start by tackling it one part at a time and it seems to me the first place to start would be with making sure we recruit and train far more doctors and nurses and physician assistants to make sure the infra-structure is there to take on the extra demand.

I assure you the first cry for healthcare will be WOMEN and children first while men are expected to just suck it up and die "like a man".