Posted on 11/21/2013 4:00:52 AM PST by markomalley
“Medical doctors are highly paid professionals. They earn more money—a lot more money—than your average American.”
To become a doctor you must get A’s & B’s in high school studying science in order to get into college where you also must get A’s and B’s in fairly rigorous course work in order to study 4 more years in med school where there are no C’s.
At this point you begin your residency for 2-4 years and if you want to specialize another 3-5 years of fellowship training. How many, “average Americans” work this long and hard to hang their shingle?
I hear that slimy John Edwards is back in the ambulance chasing seat in NC. I’m betting no one will try and limit his pay.
Democrats are all about HATE, just as they are all about death. They're kind of secular Islamists!
This clown reminds me of some freak I saw on DU many years ago, who defended a story about Cuban doctors moonlighting as cabbies. They just did that for “extra” money, according to the DU freak.
On a related note, I’d point out that there are quite a few docs, especially GP/Family doctors, who aren’t exactly raking in the bucks. After they pay the bills (malpractice insurance, staff, rent, etc.) there are some docs out there struggling just to break even.
With a supermajority now on some sort of government dole, the ruling elites will always vote for more government and more giveaways. The country is already dead, it just doesn't know it. It will slowly spin down economically as more and more productive people just give up.
Eventually, the whole system will collapse and the country will descend into a second Dark Age. It has happened before, it will happen again. It is inevitable.
If doctors don’t switch to a “cash only” practice they are stupid. They could undercut the feral government’s health care system by charging less because they wouldn’t have to hire office staff to shuffle government reports.
Places like the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Northern Mexico, & the Caribbean islands may very well wind up as medical Meccas. Doctors could move their practices to such places to provide quality care at an affordable, cash prices, free of onerous US bureaucracy, monopoly insurance companies, & US torts. This may not work for GPs but could work well for specialists.
As Obamacare destroys the greatest health care system in the world, that greatness will move to other areas of the world. For Americans of means, health care vacations to foreign destinations will become a reality, just as it currently is for Brits & Canadians now.
Next up, passport control to keep the doctors from moving their practices out of the country.
The mechanism for that is already in place because the IRS can freeze anyone’s passport application by putting a $50,000 tax lien against their name.
Don’t bother packing, Doc. You’re not going anywhere.
Collectivist control freaks looooove shortages.
Get government out of the medical system and you’ll see rates drop about 80%!
It’s the elites who are the big promoters collectivism and the poor don’t mind. Why? Because collectivism only benefits those two extremes of society. Everyone else has a bend over and...
“Eventually, the whole system will collapse and the country will descend into a second Dark Age. It has happened before, it will happen again. It is inevitable.”
Somewhere between 2016 and 2017.
How about every medical student, medical professional (nurse, etc.), university professor doctor, and idiot doctor advocating single payer/obamacare/”health care for all” be taxed such that their take home pay is either at minimum wage or below it. Let the idiots pay!
These folks actually believe that doctors will stay in the system while bneing punished by “restraining doctors’ income.” Restraining doctors’ income will, of course out here in the real world, sharply reduce the total quality of medicine radically. Skilled physicians will depart the specialty or the country and the lost numbers will be made up by lowering- lowering a lot- the knowledge and ability requirements for being a physician. Medicine will become a relatively low paid service job. The real Doctors that continue to practice will be in offshore clinics in Costa Rica and Dominica or, if the long arm of the USA starts flailing in the neighborhood, in Thailand and Vanuatu.Of course that will lead to border controls. We won’t be allowed to leave the country if we cannot produce a certificate of perfect health.
Expect more of this type of assinine talk as Obamacare crumbles to where the democrats are pressured into facing the fact that the law is too expansive to work smoothly.
HEAR! HEAR!
It’s been laid out numerous times, AND TRIED in Texas:
Tort reform
tax deductible catastrophic insurance premiums
tax deductible HSAs
interstate insurance markets
Result:
30% reduction in medical care costs
30% increase in doctors across the board
Currently, medicine attracts many of the smartest and hardest working young people. They HAVE to be smart and hard-working to make it through the training. That's why many of the wealthy of foreign countries come to the US for treatment, instead of going to Cuba.
No, what will happen is that the smartest young people will forget about picking pre-med as a college major.
Yes, it did. Hillary’s scheme was on its surface more ambitious than kenyacare. She intended to use it to begin instituting mobility controls on Americans, pretty much locking us in our medical zones- No medical treatment allowed if we were to get sick outside of our Zones. Mobility restriction has always been a big desire of the Left. All those people just going where they want to go when they want to go there is disconcerting to the would Puppeteers.
Obama :”If you like your doctor you can keep him”
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