I just cant completely trust doctors.

My dad has worked with all sorts of doctors for over 50yrs now. He's seen so much stuff and realizes you cant completely trust the doctors for everything.

Especially since he knows which doctors are drug addicts and alcoholics. (one of the head doctors just recently committed suicide or "accidentally" killed himself trying to get all gorked out...while he was at work and dealing with patients. That doctor went into a call room, set himself up with an IV stand of saline and whatever his drug of choice was, and then screwed something up and accidentally offed himself)

I'd like to be in control of my healthcare, rather than trusting someone who may or may not be shooting himself up with some sort of controlled substance while in the stairwell around the corner from where he's about to treat me.

Maybe my opinion of doctors may be a bit colored from growing up in a family full of nurses, x-ray techs and paramedics that sit around the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas and tell stories of the doctors and other nurses that they work with who are drug addicts.

Not all doctors are like that...I'm sure it's just a small percentage of doctors that are like that. But, I dont want total control of my health decisions being made by someone who is not me.

I especially do not want some political appointee being the one telling the doctors that I might actually trust, that they cant treat me the way they want to treat me or that I cant choose my own treatment or that I cant choose the doctor that I want.

Yes, they should have something set up for the people who cant afford insurance. I just dont like the backhanded way that Congress and the Senate snuck the healthcare stuff into a financial bill.