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It used to be focus on patient first, now "focus on cost value" ... "standardized processes"... and you know what that means...
1 posted on 04/13/2013 9:00:44 AM PDT by Innovative
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"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward," Emanuel said. "I've consulted with my friends the Tooth Fairy and the Skittle Pooping Unicorn, and they assure me that this is possible."
2 posted on 04/13/2013 9:04:28 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Gosnell - Media ignores murder of thousands of UNDOCUMENTED humans - Democrats cheer)
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So will the change thier oath? “ First .... do things cheaply. “


3 posted on 04/13/2013 9:04:47 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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While talking to my dermo a couple of weeks ago, I was told that since they are being forced to upgrade/digitize just about everything there would be less hours available for actually seeing and treating patients. Appointments would be more scarce and patient time would be shorter. Sounds like a good idear to me. NOT!


6 posted on 04/13/2013 9:27:42 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward"

In other words..."Dear Mr. Washington Health Care Bureaucrat: May I please, please, PLEASE have this operation to save my life?"

My small infrastructure local clinic and university hospital have done perfectly well for decades.

I hate these bastards and what they are doing.

7 posted on 04/13/2013 9:32:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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The old is new: WWII Army sick call, “Here’s your aspirin, next!”


8 posted on 04/13/2013 9:35:01 AM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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"We need a big infrastructure to be able to deliver high-quality care going forward," Emanuel said.

It's that "big infrastructure" that's created the mess we're in. It started with WW2 wage controls adding health insurance as an employment benefit, the 1965 Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) supercharged it and now Obamacare has it flying into the mountain at full speed and on afterburners.

If you ever want to see a higher quality product at a lower cost, you'd need a smaller infrastructure, with less government control.

10 posted on 04/13/2013 9:41:02 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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Docs should say, “There were no doctors included in the writing of the legislation, why should we push it?”


11 posted on 04/13/2013 9:47:19 AM PDT by SuziQ
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If I had to run my practice like that, there would be a lot of unhappy clients. It’s not about the money you know. If you are running a bank, yes, a medical or legal practice, it’s about the client with the problem.


12 posted on 04/13/2013 9:56:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Thomas Sowell:

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”


13 posted on 04/13/2013 9:57:51 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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What would you expect from Rahm Emanuel’s brother?


15 posted on 04/13/2013 10:10:05 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Too old, too sick, too bad...no treatment for you.


16 posted on 04/13/2013 10:17:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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Not in a very long time has the medical system focused on patient first.

And that’s one reason the cost of medical care has gone way out of control, much like the trend in college tuition.

Our medical system is sick. It thrives on sick people and it takes money form insurance companies and the gov’t in medicare.

And that is why a destructive force can move in and take it over.

Actually, what used to be, and what was, not ‘better’ but complimentary, was people taking responsibility for their health.

The wise will want to do this and to help their families do so.

The AMA embraced abortion rights. It will fall as will all other systems that embrace killing innocents.

The best route is to take care of one’s health, avoid the medical system have catastrophic insurance if possible and find mds that will cooperate.


17 posted on 04/13/2013 10:33:22 AM PDT by stanne
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Easy Kill Emmanuel. What a tool.


21 posted on 04/13/2013 10:38:58 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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"focus on "cost value" first, not the patient"

Also known as the Veterinary Standard of Care....
25 posted on 04/13/2013 1:19:03 PM PDT by indthkr
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The totalitarian government will decide who is worthy of first class government “provided” healthcare and who gets the pill, ie, death panels. This was the real intent of CommieCare to begin with.


30 posted on 04/13/2013 1:43:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!n)
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CommieCare ™, brought to you courtesy Obama, Reid, Pelosi & Marxists R US Inc., aided and abetted by useful idiots Mitt Romney (RomneyCare precedent), cowardly Chief Justice Benedict Arnold Roberts and the full cast of toothless, spineless, hornless, godless, unprincipled GOP-e turncoat RINO herd.
34 posted on 04/13/2013 1:58:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!n)
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bump


35 posted on 04/13/2013 2:00:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Emanuel, IIRC, is Rahm’s brother.

Screw the big government solution to healthcare. We need to repeal Obamugabecare big time.


36 posted on 04/13/2013 2:01:07 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Emanuel, IIRC, is Rahm’s brother.

Screw the big government solution to healthcare. We need to repeal Obamugabecare big time.


37 posted on 04/13/2013 2:01:33 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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This mentally diseased libturd is advocating that physicians should take over the administration of Obamacare.

In my business I worked daily with physicians and can tell you they are, by and large, brilliant when it comes to medicine and largely ignorant when it comes to business or administration.

Which makes a lot of sense: They are doctors, not MBAs.

Emanuel, Bronson, Berwick and others are blovating from their ivory towers and haven’t a clue about how to run a healthcare business. If they did, they would be.


38 posted on 04/13/2013 2:03:03 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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