So the Idaho legislature is in session, and we should all be paying attention. For we elected these clowns. Maybe a clown show is what we want.
I don’t. So allow me some suggestions.
It seems Idaho wants to increase the number of doctors who practice here. The legislature even spent our money so these clowns could get together and consider some recommendations. They say we need 1400 more docs just to be “average”. And they have their $recommendations$.
Allow me, as a retired, worn out, possibly criminal Idaho Family Doc to comment. Do you need my bona fides? The years I worked in our small-town seeing patients in the clinic, delivering babies, covering the ER, taking care of ICU patients and sometimes calling the helicopter? If you do, let me know.
If this interim committee looking into the need for doctors in Idaho might have had lunch with the other interim committee calling themselves “DOGE Idaho” maybe there might have been some synergy. But that’s probably a “woke” concept in our state.
DOGE Idaho has decided it would be best for Idaho to drop Medicaid Expansion coverage. To be honest, I wasn’t surprised. Idaho legislators have had their shorts in a twist ever since Idaho voters told them to quit clowning around.
Idaho voters understood the numbers and the injustice of the “Gap” people in the ACA= Obamacare mess. Some folks can’t qualify for Medicaid, and they can’t go on the exchange to buy insurance. They were in the gap. Idaho voters solved their problem with a righteous and compassionate vote.
So it now costs our Idaho taxpayers about as much as we spend on private school vouchers. 50,000 people get your tax dollars to send their kids to a private school, and 90,000 Idahoans get access to health insurance.
Please allow me to square this circle.
Idaho legislators have driven doctors from this state. These clowns created this mess.
Twice in my weak career I performed what the Idaho legislature now call a criminal act. I did things to cause the delivery of two fetuses I knew would not survive birth. And Idaho legislators call that a crime.
So you want more doctors in this great state? Maybe you should quit calling them criminals for giving care.
You already require all doctors supported in their medical education by Idaho taxpayers to return here and work for four years.
Maybe you should make the schools they send their kids to exemplary.
Maybe you should make this a state doctors want to practice in.
And here’s a hint. It comes from a retired, washed-up old family doc. Doc’s like getting paid for what they do. And you now want to take away that payment?
There are lots of folks with “real” insurance, like all you clowns in the Idaho legislature have at our expense, but insurance is how doctors get paid. Don’t get me started on the stupidity of this ACA/Obamacare system.
But you clowns are considering two stupid things to be spending our taxpayer dollars. You want to cut off payment to doctors and hospitals, and at the same time spend money to bring more doctors to this state. Can’t you see?
Doctors don’t like Medicaid. It pays much less than your gold-plated insurance. But it pays something.
Idaho DOGE should have spent some time on this one. Why do most private insurance companies have >15% overhead and Medicaid and Medicare, the government insurances have overhead costs below 5%? Shouldn’t we be trying to lower overhead costs?
You have been generous. You have allowed me to call my state legislators “clowns” and you have let me get into the weeds of health care policy. I apologize about the clown’s thing. But please, don’t stop thinking about this health care mess we are in. We need to solve it.
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