When ACA or Obamacare was finally passed,I was struck or dumbstruck,by comments of at least one U.S. Senator and spokespeople for the AMA and ACP that ACA would further the cause of social justice.
The now infamous comment of then Speaker of the House,Nancy Pelosi , was to the effect that we had to pass the bill to see what was in it. Well. it has been passed for quite a while now and we are still finding out what is in it and as the consequences are materializing many of them appear in no way to conform with the common meaning of social justice .Many examples of that will be discussed as the blog slogs along.
Another issue of concern for this new blog effort will be the topic of social justice in general and as it applies to Obamacare and to the practice of medicine. Readers of my other blog, retired doc's thoughts,might have noticed my alarm over and my criticism concerning the Physician's Charter which if it as widely accepted by physicians in practice as it has been nominally and formally by their professional organizations the relationship between physician and patient has been damaged if not destroyed. This not a new topic for me but although I focused Retired Doc's Thought on that issue many times, the new effort will have a more limited focus as RDT has had other targets and interests.
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