MD VIP Continued

On doctors and their VIP patients - Sheehan - NewsObserver.com:
"When I wrote recently about so-called concierge doctors' practices - docs who charge an annual fee for more attentive care - I tried to tell the other side of this story, and not just by quoting angry patients who felt jilted. I talked to a medical ethicist who saw nothing alarming with the trend.
Turns out, I should have talked to one of the family doctors NOT switching to concierge.
I should have talked to Dr. Adam Goldstein.
"The reality is, this is about profit," Goldstein said. After all, 600 patients at $1,500 a year is $900,000 on top of insurance payments."

This is a NewsObserver follow up to a previous article describing the trend by doctors to offer VIP a.k.a. Concierge services.With all of the fuss that's going on about health care reform, the question boils down to just one thing, who's going to pay for medical service. The answer of course is you. Either by oppressive new taxes or MD VIP fees, it will be the middle class who will pay. Not the rich, not the poor, not Civil Servants or the "Gang of 535." It will be what ever is left of the middle class, retired or working, who will be burdened with the cost of paying for themselves and everyone else.

After reading the N&O article, I was reminded of a comment from a recent Ann Coulter editorial, which read in part: "...... the liberal argument for national health care was that it wasn't fair that some people -- "the rich" -- have access to better health care than others. Instead of being honest and telling us that their plan is to make health care worse and more expensive -- but fairer! -- liberals have recently begun claiming that providing universal health care will actually save money."

According to the article it looks like Ann is right, health care will get worse and more expensive, one way or the other.

Just in case you missed them, the following are links to my previous posts regarding the subject of  MD VIP services:
            Two Tier Health Care Trend  
            Mayo Clinic Opting Out Of Medicare          

Obama's Pulls A Rodney Dangerfield

Obama raced clock, chaos, comedy for climate deal:
"WASHINGTON (AP) - It was almost unthinkable. The president of the United States walked into a meeting of fellow world leaders and there wasn't a chair for him, a sure sign he was not expected, maybe not even wanted.
Barack Obama didn't pause, however. 'I'm going to sit by my friend Lula,' he said, moving toward Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A Brazilian aide gave the U.S. president his chair, and Obama spent the next 80 minutes helping craft new requirements for disclosing efforts to fight global warming. Along with India, South Africa and Brazil, the key member in the room was China, which recently surpassed the U.S. as the world's top emitter of heat-trapping gasses."

As I noted in a previous post, anyone looking for Gravitas from this White House had best look elsewhere.

This is another in a series of Non-Presidential behavior that goes beyond being comical or sophomoric. It is disturbing to say the least. For a President of the United States to walk into a conference room, in a foreign country, that his Secret Service hasn't checked out before hand, is incredulous. They should not only have known where he was to sit, but they should have had full knowledge of everyone in the room and made sure that they satisfied security clearance rules. His aides are either complicit in this incompetence, or must be bald from all their hair-pulling over the incident. I'm not sure how the Secret Service guys feel, but I can guess. Obama and his staff are out of control and clueless as to international protocol and security.
Adding insult to injury, joking that a Communist Dictator like Lula is his friend, is beyond the pale.

I never thought  Bubba  Bill Clinton could be made to look Presidential by anyone, but Mr. Obama has done it.
Is it too late to get Bubba back?