BJ Palmer And His Thoughts On Health Care Reform

Answer 161. Doctors and patients will become machines to be ground out like sausage links. Individual initiative will not exist.

People will line up like people going to a movie, waiting to buy a chance at getting a series of forms to be filled in. D.C. will spend time signing forms galore. Income will be doled out at so much per. Office will be so crowded with rich and poor; sick, half-sick, and not sick at all, that he will have no time or inclination to progress with our development. He will become a cog in a national grinding
organization.

Costs of maintaining government will grow mountain-high, taxes will climb out of all proportion to value. Chiropractor will have one door on right where patients enter; an office in between where he will slap them down on table, slam-bang a punch or two on their backbone, and shove them out thru door on left. He will keep this up as fast and as long as endurance lasts, stopping between backbone punches to sign many forms for each patient, and, at the end of day, will retire dead tired; at end of each month getting little or no pay for strenuous efforts.

Cost to consumer will come out of his pocket, only difference being that instead of having doctor of his choice, he will take whoever government assigns. Instead of paying doctor direct for services, he will make out forms, pay the government who will send him to doctor they choose, who will make out many forms, whom the government pays.

No matter how many corners everybody is compelled to twist around, patient pays, and pays, and pays, and in long run pays more under government supervision than he would if he paid direct.

Yes, doctors, offices will remind us of a human packing plant where pigs come in, are placed on a hook, squealing, throats are stuck. Doctor becomes pig-sticker, blood is drained, patient is quartered, and eventually becomes so much pork for undertaker.

Individual initiative has always improved service. Government control always decreases it. We are professionally opposed to any national health legislation. The I.C.A. says IF such a bill IS to pass, we want Chiropractors INCLUDED on a common par with physicians.

We can see several SUPREME advantages if this plan goes into effect. It will cut down materially all fol-de-rols of physicians with which they today mystify sick yokels. They will have no time to hunt germs, take useless lab tests; no time to diagnose cases after many days’ visits. They will do much like army medics: reduce all medication to one brown pill, one white pill, to all people alike, regardless of what they might have, if they know what it is.

It will have another advantage to the Chiropractor: it will stop him from drifting into the same hocus-pocus methods. It wild simplify approach to necessities of spinographing one area only, using neurocalometer exclusively, adjusting only when interference pattern is known to exist. Visits of patients will be fewer and farther between, preventing over-adjusting cases.

Professionally, this kind of legislation would be to advantage of patient in all respects, and to disadvantage of doctor in all respects. It will open issue of sick people to political boon-doggling, porkbarrel methods, giving employment to hundreds of thousands of political aspirants; political appointees, who will get salaries out of proportion with what they do or are worth, piling up costs, piling up millions of forms to account for every move of hundreds of thousands of all kinds of doctors, keeping records on 150,000,000 people.