Are you healthy enough to still practice if those things were dealt with? Have you considered moving to Australia where there is a shortgage of doctors? Just wondering if perhaps you thought of that? Your age does go against you but doctors still practice in their 70s here.
Geoff Flight General Manager Sustainable Resources Industry Training Pty Ltd 58 Norrie Ave Clovelly Park 5042 P: +61 8 8277 6380 M: 0414 965 226 F: +61 8 8177 1290 W: www.srit.com.au E: [email protected] TAKE THE SURVEY! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/976V5JT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Friday, 12 November 2010 12:04 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Serious legal challenges to Health Bill geoff wrote: > Sorry to hear that things are tough for you. Good luck on the election. > Aren't you a licensed doctor tho? Hi Geoff, Yes. After a pair of traffic accidents, plus the diabetes and being 65, I was no longer able to practice efficiently enough to maintain a profit. The cost of malpractice insurance and the license fee are such that you have to be very productive just to keep the doors open. >> Yes, it's personal responsibility and personal choices. I live in a tiny > house, I drive an old car, my girlfriend drives an old car, we didn't go on > vacation this year, we sold some stuff I didn't want to sell but I had to. > Personal responsibility and choices. > It would be nice to be able to economize to the point where my budget > would work on $901 a month but I can't. > > I have a reverse mortgage, but the condo Nazis keep raising the condo > fee and passing special assessments. The groceries here are running $25 > a day when they aren't $30 - that right there with the condo fee is a > deal breaker. > > There is nothing left for utilities, but the utility companies insist on > taking it directly from your bank account OR require a huge deposit > which you can't pay. So you cut groceries and try to make do with the > food bank which is not good for the diabetes. > > This is before anything health related. The health bills of a diabetic > are astronomical. Medicare pays some, Medicaid pays some and the rest > pile up. One of these days they will start suing me again. When the > utility companies go into my bank account and find no money they will > cut the electric, then I will die from the heat. > > There is nothing for gas or insurance so we are supposed to stay in our > homes and not go anywhere. Even the bus (which doesn't go where and when > you need it) costs $60 a month for a card. Trying to make do with a > motor bike I got in a wreck this year that must have cost > Medicare/Medicaid $60K if it didn't cost them $100K. The docs they sent > me to were butchers, but that's what the sort-of free system has. > > I am running for a city commission seat. If I win that I will have $25K > per year wages and a real health plan. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
