You know I repect you, but I feel passionately almost like should you kill Hitler before he got too powerful and out of control, that sometimes you need to cut certain things off at the knees instead of trying to minimize the damage for the impending storm.
Sometimes people of good conscience need to be willing to be hurt, put themselves in harms way, and take a stand or otherwise you will almost certainly be over run, invaded and taken over. I see this along with the total access CCHIT styled E medical record as one of those important times in history and one day we will all be judged as to where we did or did not take a stand on these important issues of civil liberties and protection of medicine for patients and doctors.
Just Imagine if people would of had, bigger debates and longer stop and think periods, resisted passionately HMO's and Managed Care, just imagine where we just might be already. The road to hell is not only paved with good intentions (like yours) but it is also paved with the smoke and mirrors, now you see 'em and now ya don't, BullCCHIT from people like those in gov't and the insurance industry are trying to pass on us today with P4P. Just imagine a medicial world without HMO's, forced selection of PCP's, no policies with only in network coverage, and all their other little games, imagine what that world and business model might look it.
Personally I want to shoot the folks from the 80's and 90's who didn't see this one coming and left those of us who are first getting in today with no saftey net or nest eggs to fall back on; for not looking out for not just themselves but for the future of all doctors and patients and the future of medicine in general.
This is just the next piece of garbage in a long list of garbage that they have created, given a good cover story to, that actually servers nobody but their own greedy self interests, and shame on anyone who falls for it, doesn't see it for what it really is, or stands idle in the face of such obvious bull and allows it to over run us all. Please don't be "co-opted" here with false visions of fighting them by their rules in their rink, officiated by their bought and paid for biased officials. YOU WILL CERTIANLY LOOSE!
I still feel like in the words of good old Jean Luke: "The line in the sand must be drawn here!" And shame of those who knew better or simply kept their heads in the sand... Sometimes one needs to know when it is time to stand and fight. These are such times....
Paul
Last edited by hockeyref; 06/11/2008 7:29 PM.
