A friend of mine at church (who works in cardiac rhythm management) noted that as far as he could tell, major medical device companies in the Twin Cities area were holding off on as many hiring decisions as possible until they knew what "Obamacare" held for them.
Put differently, before a bill was presented or a single vote was held, "Obamacare" was already delaying or killing job prospects for a lot of people. And yet it gets worse; those jobs were to develop things like cardiac stents, pacemakers, surgical tools, and the like. The very threat of Obamacare is likely to be injurious or lethal to thousands of people.
One wonders if those who would "reform" healthcare (generally by taking the profit out of it) ever stop to consider that, say, a lifelong smoker who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania might someday depend on this kind of innovation. Apparently not.
(reason # 5, 324, 191 why logic really ought to be taught in schools)
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Ah,but that lifelong smoker will never have to wait in the same line as everyone else, although you make a good point that he may indeed someday wish that technology had developed as fast post-Obamacare as it did pre-Obamacare.
I would love to remind Comrade Obama that if the next Dr. Ferrara never gets an interview with the next Genentech, it won't matter if he's President, faux "Messiah," or King of the World--there will be no improved version of Avastin to treat the lung cancer he's working so hard to earn.
I've got a soft spot in my heart for Genentech and Dr. Ferrara, as they've helped prolong my mother's life. I hope Comrade Obama doesn't manage to kill the goose that laid the golden chemotherapy drugs.
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