For those who loathe nationalized medical insurance as much as I do, I’ve got exceptionally terrific news: a new organization calling itself “The Wedge of Health Freedom” connects doctors who practice outside the (Un)Affordable Care Act’s bureaucracy and restrictions with patients who also strive to avoid that straitjacket—and who crave “prices for … care” that are “affordable and reasonable.”
Yes! “In short, The Wedge is going ‘back to the future’ of health care“: it is restoring us from serfs of Obummercare to physician’s customers. As such, “Your visit won’t feel rushed and you’ll be able to ask all your questions. You will be the full focus of the doctor’s attention, with personal touch, eye contact and listening ear. House calls may once again be made available to you. You will choose the doctor, the practice, the surgery center, and eventually, the hospital of your choice. The doctor’s office will once again be a safe place where your confidentiality is protected and medical ethics are upheld.” And, it bears repeating, “Prices for your care will be affordable and reasonable.”
Doctors who join The Wedge “do not sign managed care contracts or participate in Medicare … they are exempt from 132,000 pages of Medicare regulations, more than 20,000 pages of Obamacare regulations, 962 pages of new proposed Medicare payment regulations, the expensive electronic health record (EHR) mandate, and all the attorneys, billers, coders, data reporters and administrative managers associated with these and other regulatory burdens. These cash-based practices are free of third-party payer controls and costs, and the savings are passed on to the patient.” Yee-haw!!!
Lest you despair that The Wedge includes so few doctors nationwide you’d have to endure the TSA’s proctologic exam to patronize them, I entered several locations in the website’s search engine. In each case, I found a doctor within an hour’s drive or less.
It would be enough if The Wedge merely listed such practitioners. But its vision is much broader. The Wedge aspires to lead a peaceable revolution against Obummercare: “…what if we could bypass these government systems and advance [medical] freedom regardless of what a President or Congress does? … we wanted to establish a nationwide grassroots movement that would draw the public’s attention to [doctors and practices … who serve their patients freely because their hands are not tied by contracts with Big Insurance or Big Government], … offer these practices as an attractive choice for patients everywhere, encourage doctors to escape into The Wedge, defend the right of ‘Wedge practices’ to operate freely without government interference, and expand The Wedge into an ever-larger slice of the American health care pie.”
The Wedge needs those of us committed to freedom to spread the word and invite our doctors into its network: “There isn’t a practicing doctor in America who loves the unethical bureaucratic mess that the practice of medicine has become. … many doctors are retiring before they want to—at a time when Americans face a looming shortage of doctors. Help your doctor escape into The Wedge. Together, we will restore health freedom to America’s patients and doctors.”
How utterly glorious!
4:26 pm on September 6, 2016
