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Slate: If Doctors Boycott Obamacare, Squeeze Their Pay
Truth Revolt ^ | 11/21/2013 | Bradford Thomas

Posted on 11/21/2013 4:00:52 AM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

sounds like slavery to me


61 posted on 11/21/2013 5:56:25 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Usagi_yo

Where do I sign?


62 posted on 11/21/2013 5:56:58 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: markomalley

The fools don’t understand; the insurance companies are dropping providers from their networks.


63 posted on 11/21/2013 6:01:41 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: markomalley

Who cares what Slate thinks? Left wing crap.


64 posted on 11/21/2013 6:16:39 AM PST by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: markomalley

I would like to squeeze the author of that Marxist tripe.


65 posted on 11/21/2013 6:23:11 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: markomalley

Accurately predicted by Tucker Carlson on last night’s Fox Panel.

If they are going to keep trying to make Obamacare work, they are going to have to ensure that insurance companies make a profit (even if that means throwing massive taxpayer subsidies at them).

And since the Government is not going to give in this equation, the only place left to get the money is by going after the Doctors. He predicted that the media would soon be filled with charges that they are EEEEEVIL and GRRRREEEDY and make too much money.

Sure did not take long.


66 posted on 11/21/2013 6:30:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mike Darancette

Obamacare is just health insurance without medical care.

It is a union make jobs project.

taxes = Government obamacare workers = union dues = political contributions.

IOW taxes into politicians’ pockets.

people are losing 20% of their income to health insurance premiums mandated by law. YET congressional staffers had a hissy fit when they had to be treated the same as other workers. (staffers not elected officials)


67 posted on 11/21/2013 6:37:36 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Mister Da

Medical R&D is probably going to shrink severely no matter what. The American market is the only reason that Medical R&D is done at all in the world. Nowhere else in the world are citizens allowed to pay patent prices for new medicines. R&D costs must be recouped from the American market. No matter how the Medical professionals get around American socialized medicine, the market in the USA for new patented medicines will shrink drastically. R&D will slow or cease.THAT INCLUDES ANTIBIOTICS. New miracle drugs can be lived without. We have not become used to their existence. Antibiotics, on the other hand, must be replaced continually with new antibiotics as the pathogens develop immunity to current drugs. Once the American Medical market is socialized, and it probably has irretrievably crossed the threshold, the development of new antibiotics will cease. In 10-20 more years we will be medically approaching 1910- you get sick you die.


68 posted on 11/21/2013 6:40:40 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

How about mandating reporters make their meetings with politicians public record?


69 posted on 11/21/2013 6:53:08 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Adder; Ronin; BlueStateRightist; txrefugee

As for going underground, at some point we just might end up with new veterinarians who were former “People” docs practicing on a greatly increased pet population.

“Yeah Doc, my um... ‘Dog’ (wink-wink) has had a persistent cough, sinus infection and chest congestion for the past couple of weeks. Do you think we could get Rover (wink-wink) a course of antibiotics?”


70 posted on 11/21/2013 7:05:24 AM PST by jaydee770
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To: markomalley
They are consistent. "If the power of persuasion fails, we will not fail to use the persuasion of power."

The idiot who wrote this tripe has no idea what we do, what risks we take, what time restraints are placed on those who are on call 24 hours per day, what it means to make a payroll. This is the same thing as slavery imposed upon those who Bradford Thomas thinks should conduct their business only the way he wants them to conduct their business.

It is time for Mr. Thomas to consider if he wants to go to a physician who is barely making ends meet to make a decision as to wether or not to recommend an invasive surgery based on his impressions. The Dr. is hungry. He needs a case to raise money, and symptoms may indicate Mr. Thomas mighty benefit from having his gallbladder out, or the physician might (or might not) feel a hernia…Perhaps Mr. Thomas will want an underpaid physician to make marginal decisions, not on a complete workup, but his impressions. Perhaps Mr. Thomas will prefer a colonoscopy done by a general practitioner who is not trained in techniques to prevent perforation of the colon. Or , lets have the GP's do the appendectomies. Anyone can take out an appendix. Right? Wrong! An appendectomy is easy, unless it is perforated or if it is retrocecal or if it located abberently beneath the liver. Surgeons get paid to be able to deal with whatever problems are encountered in the belly. But lets have them train 5 or 6 years beyond medical school and pay them like we would a writer of Salon.

These people have no clue what hell they have released upon the public. The pain, suffering, morbidity, and death Obamacare will release will become the price of the government doing business.

Think about it. The US had the best medical health care delivery system in the world. The socialist countries validated this view, in view of the fact that their leaders came to the US for their heart surgery. They knew their health care system was inferior. Now, in the wisdom of Obama, we destroy, by fiat, the best health care system we opt for that which is inferior. This is insanity. But it is here. I only hope the oligarch gets a good taste of what they have wrought.

71 posted on 11/21/2013 7:38:49 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Songwriter

Ultimately, the government has the docs by the ba**s. If the docs don’t follow the dictates of the Medical Board, they could have their license to practice severely limited or yanked. Because their rulings fall under administrative law, the accused has essentially has no chance. I could see Medical Boards say that docs have to see a certain percentage of their patients as medicaid or medicare or...? That said, I hope this collapses sooner than later. Apparently, there are many who need to suffer in order to POSSIBLY see the light and stop elected these marxist LIB/DIM a-holes. Tighten your seat belts...this is going to be o0ne heck of a ride.


72 posted on 11/21/2013 8:04:01 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: jaydee770

That’s an idea...they we’ll all have pet names...” Yeah doc, Spot is having some sinus problems...”

I’m claiming JoJo....just ‘cause.


73 posted on 11/21/2013 10:10:57 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Adder

This is starting to look like the plot of a book, a quite good one, during the 1970s. Blade Runner by Alan E. Nourse.


74 posted on 11/21/2013 12:23:07 PM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: markomalley
What we need is a common-sense law that will prevent this from happening. Something like this:

All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail.

Problem solved. The full text of Directive 10-289 may be found HERE

It's your future, Comrades. Embrace the change.

75 posted on 11/21/2013 12:32:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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76 posted on 11/21/2013 12:34:22 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: M Kehoe

Matthew Yglesias - the sweaty one

77 posted on 11/21/2013 12:36:03 PM PST by kcvl
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To: timestax

bump


78 posted on 03/14/2014 10:40:42 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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79 posted on 07/13/2014 12:23:08 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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