Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Republican establishment in both houses of congress are trying to torpedo Donald Trump’s agenda.
Republicans had seven years to coordinate a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The House of Representative’s bill has finally past. Senate committees are stalling progress of the bill.
Both houses should have had all the debates and consensus reached to during the last seven years.
Why would congressmen try to stall the passage of the bill? President Trump has stated that passage of the budget bill is dependent on passage of the healthcare bill.
The reason is obvious to me.
President Trump has pledge to those who voted for him that he is going to drain the swamp in Washington. He is going to eliminate corruption and streamline the bloated bureaucracy.
The Republican establishment is a big part of the swamp. They are thriving in the swamp they helped create.
President Trump represents a direct threat to their power. The Republican establishment does not realize that the only reason they have a majority in both houses is because of the rebellion within the party against the Republican establishment.
Tea partyers and independents voted for unknown candidates and defeated many establishment Republicans in the primaries.
The goal of the Republican establishment is to weaken President Trump’s agenda.
They don’t understand that they are destroying the Republican Party while they are trying to save their own swamp.
It is time the Republicans in the Senate passed the bill.
Regulations that should be eliminated are any regulations that increase bureaucratic control over the healthcare system and the practice of medicine.
The healthcare community knows how to control the costs of chronic diseases. It is by decreasing the onset of complications. Patients have to participate in controlling their chronic disease.
If a healthcare system was developed to control the costs of these chronic diseases, the United States would not only have the best healthcare system in the world we would have the most cost effective healthcare system in the world.
“In the case of diabetes, for example, the American Diabetes Association reports that the total cost of that debilitating disease amounted to $245 billion in 2012. This includes $176 billion in direct medical costs, and $69 billion in lost productivity.”
The key to diabetes control and the avoidance of diabetes complications is to control blood sugar to a close to normal as possible. This takes a lot of work on the patient’s part. Patients need the education and the motivation to become the professor of their disease and control their blood sugar.
“ As Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a physician, recently noted, diabetic seniors enrolled in traditional Medicare still do not have access to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), a medical technology today covered by 95 percent of private health plans. ’’
It is bizarre. Yet, Republican Senators who should have figured this out over the last seven years are debating small points that will have little effect on the clinical outcomes. The Republican Party has an opportunity of a lifetime to fix the healthcare system for the American people.
Republicans are going to waste this opportunity to serve the people in order to preserve their swamp that has gotten the people into this horrible position.
I am afraid we are going to see this behavior of perpetuating waste when it comes to education, the environment and energy.
The Democratic Party is worse. They are not acting in the peoples’ interest. They are trying to obstruct everything President Trump is trying to accomplish.
They criticize every initiative saying it is bad without providing reasons for why it is bad.
I believe it is time for the members of both parties to get off the stick. They must stop thinking about themselves and start thinking about the welfare of Americans.
The opinions expressed in the blog “Repairing The Healthcare System” is, mine and mine alone.
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