Posted on 11/21/2013 4:00:52 AM PST by markomalley
Doctors would take less if their malpractice insurance wasn’t so damn high. Tort reform would help.
Snort! Bet nobody saw THAT coming.
Vicious, unreconstructed Stalinists.
We received a letter yesterday from my sons do for that he is leaving his practice and retiring. I found this unusual. It was the first letter of its kind I can remember getting.
It takes many years to become a Doctor and many more years to become good at specialization.
Some Doctors are just plain worth more money than us regular folks.
They are especially worth more money than bureaucrats who write sh*t like this.
Typical commie response. Akin to forced starvation in the Soviet bloc.
The best solution is if 100% of doctors and hospitals leave ALL insurance (including Medicare) and set up a pure free market for all medical care. Patients could opt out of all employer sponsored insurance, set up their own HSA’s (pre-tax) and buy whatever extra insurance they want on an interstate free market. Insurance would reimburse the patients directly after they submit the claims for their medical care. Remove the middleman as much as possible and watch the prices fall. The GOP should be touting this plan, as it’s very simple to explain. Tort reform, a tougher goal, would be a long term objective.
Maybe the next time this idiot needs life saving medical treatment, he should go to an average American rather than a doctor!
Under the undocumented Tyrant and the EXEMPT Congress,
only THEY and al Qaeda and Moslems are not to be
slaves, unlike all other Americans and their physicians.
The average age of a doctor is 55. So how does this twit propose to punish those who just decide to retire?
Didn’t Hillary’s scheme have provisions allowing The State to dictate where doctors would live, what they were going to specialize in, and punishments if they tried to leave the profession or leave the country?
The idiotic liberal mind just can’t wrap it’s tiny self around the concept that doctors should be paid more than union bakers making Twinkies ...
ObamaCare is all about money, control, and votes. It has nothing to do with doctors and patients.
Money: The only entities that make out are Big Government and insurance companies (although nationalization of the insurers is coming down the road).
Control: Obamacare has suffocated business and individuals with all of it’s onorous regulations. Look at how the individual mandate is destroying individuals policies (how many millions have lost health care in the last ~60 days). Wait till the employer mandate goes into effect. Many small businesses are going out of business and larger businesses are leaving jobs unfilled. Obamacare is a job killer. Since the White House controls the Census and the Department of Labor, no one can trust the jobs numbers any more, and you will never know the true damage Obamacare is doing to the labor market.
Votes: Obamacare is creating a whole new class of people who actually get thru the signup process. It’s going to be the largest expansion of medicaid in history. The fines will eventually drag everyone without health care into the system.
How about we cut the salary of politicians who pass stupid laws?
This 58 yo ER doc has gone full Galt and left the US to practice for the next 2 years at least. Removing myself, my skills, and oh yeah a BIG chunk of my taxable income.
The idiotic liberal mind just can’t wrap it’s tiny self around the concept that doctors should be paid more than union bakers making Twinkies ...
It’s not just malpractice insurance. In England, for example, the gov’t owns the hospitals and provides the office space for physicians, and these costs of operation are regulated. In the US, doctors and hospitals are responsible for their own costs of operation subject to the market, but yet must function under reimbursement controls that put them essentially as functionaries of the federal gov’t. Thus, the federal gov’t gets the best of both worlds: they are getting de facto employees without having to take any responsibility for them.
I am not advocating total nationalization, but simply pointing out that the present arrangement is trending towards fascism.
Where did you go?
We’re looking for alternative countries because this one is fundamentally ruined.
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