reminder to California voters that prop 45 and 46 will heavily and negatively affect disabled people and anyone who needs consistent medical care. Prop 45 does that by creating huge delays in coverage and causing high prices. If only one person can approve changes, then they are limited in how quickly they are done. One person will decide what health insurance does and does not cover, and if that person is sympathetic to disabilities I'm personally screwed. The insurance system isnt broken, but prop 45 just limits option, it doesnt actually fix anything.
Prop 46 is the really big one that needs to go down. I know the drug database seems like a good thing- it stops drug abusers from getting drugs! But it wont just be drug users this happens to. The use of the the drug database is mandatory, doctors will have to explain any decisions they make through this database. I have a history of using narcotics because I have a chronic pain disorder, not because im a drug addict. But a doctor would only see the drugs ive taken, not the history behind them. I already have trouble getting doctors to treat me, this would make it worse since they could make decisions based just on the database and nothing else. this prop also hurts disabled doctors. Look, im all for awful doctors getting their just desserts. but what about doctors who take pain medication for chronic conditions? If they function fine, why should this be an issue? This bill doesnt define a line between good and bad drug use, and it WILL be exploited to hurt disabled people. I personally really want the cap on malpractice to go up, but this bill does that by increasing malpractice insurance to ridiculous extremes
This will cause a mass leaving of doctors out of California. I know you may think that a doctor who willing to leave must be a bad one, but thats not true! My fav and best doctor, Dr. Rho in Rancho who does pain management, is going to be destroyed by medical bills! Pain managment doctors are the ones who hand to treatments to patients with long term conditions. Rho provides some of the finest and most sympathetic medical care, but hes going to be destroyed if 46 passes. Treating disabled people is risky. Ive been turned away from doctors because there is just a high chance for something to go wrong for me. To be a pain management doctor is to take on tthe ultimate risk. Something will go wrong, and it will go wrong often. This will cause healthcare costs to go up dramatically, and that will trickle down to everyone, even if you arent disable and never go to the doctor. Theres also the issue of privacy as the government controls the drug datbase, but thats another post for another day.
Props 45 and 46 aim to fix side effects of issues and not the issues themselves. They will screw over the most vulnerable people, the disabled and elderly. Theres a reason every newspaper and medical institution opposes 46, it was literally written by lawyers who will only see the benefit of increasing payouts.If you can only say no to one bill, let it be 46. $5 should be shot down too, but the immediate effects of 46 will be dramatic and irreversible.
(this is coming from a disabled person who sued a doctor, and was stopped by the 250 k cap. I got less than half of my settlement due to lawyer fees. This is a money grab by lawyers. It will hurt the things it says its trying to protect. Lets wait until a better prop to fix the cap.)
