But now I am curious.. are there other states which have the sheer number of Consulates within them besides NY (NY), IL (Chicago), and .. http://www.sos.state.tx.us/bor.....ndex.shtml

Hmmmmm…. How about that?

Curious don’t you think? Here is the entire rest of the damn country debating what doctors should be allowed to do or not do, what they should get or not get paid for their work, what medical methods they should or should not be allowed to use, and for whom.

As if it were our place or our business to have an opinion about such things!

Someone, somewhere, sometime has got to bring up in public the fact that at the core of this “debate” about “health care” is really a discussion about the enslavement of doctors.

Most doctors I know, when they have a patient that is on only M/M, and the doctor knows that patient is trying to survive on Social Security, will just eat the other $35.00 of their charge.

Also, there is a new thing M/M is doing; making doctors get preapproval for a test. My stepmother’s doctor recommended her to a cardiologist due to her age (86). The cardiologist suggested she have a test that would detect any risk of having a stroke due to her age. M/M denied it. Two weeks later, she had a stroke. And wound up in the hosptial for a week. All of that could have been avoided by the test, and medication like Plavix and Norvasc to prevent the TIA she had.

Instead of a simple test, that she would have had to pay around $100 for (her share) she now owes the hospital $1,200.00, the part that M/M didn’t cover.

This, my friends, is Obamacare.

SEMPER FIDELIS

My take on this is (for seniors) as follows:
1) If you have a doctor now and are on medicare or nearing medicare and the doctor continues to accept medicare, you will probably be able to keep the doctor.
2) If the doctor does not accept medicare or decides to no longer have you as a patient on medicare, you will be competing with many other seniors for the few doctors that do accept medicare and will probably be put on a waiting list or your appointment will be 6 or more months out for an office visit… or a doctor will be assigned to you.
3) Eventually, as more and more doctors retire because they no longer want to deal with this and fewer students pursue medical degrees, the situation in item 2 will get worse.
4) Then, eventually, the government will be forced to bring in “doctors” from other countries (see Britain).

It’s called rationing. Eventually, for seniors, it means death/life termination counseling.

And Jason, no the State of Texas doesn’t have embassies.

Hey, Texas did on the television show Jericho! :-)

(Texas also came off looking really, really good at the end of that show…)

We have two doctors, TWO, that will accept M/M patients that don’t have secondary insurance. Many retired people who have moved here in the last few years have to drive 40 miles to a major city for routine medical care. Some of the doctors are refusing to take insurance assignments while simply means; you pay up front, you get a receipt and the doctor’s office fills out insurance paperwork for you and you send it in and the insurance company sends you what they cover.

And Jason, no the State of Texas doesn’t have embassies. We did when we were an independent nation, but they were closed when we became a state.

Obama’s wife is an example to go by. Hospital paying her for work she did not do. Holding on to charity money, sending patients away. Laying off workers at one company.

I don’t know Steve, but if they found a way to force banks to give home loans to unqualified people, surely this is something the government, in its infinite wisdom, will figure a way to do sooner or later.

There just won’t be any left to pick from.

In some Canadian communities they have lotteries to get a doctor.

But when the ex-Acorn community organizers get through med school, that problem should disappear.

Then you will be enjoying a socially just form of medical care.

And if your health is ruined, you will have the sweet consolation of knowing you are a patriot.