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Lifting Doctor-Licensing Restrictions Could Drive Competition, Lower Costs (Here it comes)
The National Journal ^ | October 14, 2013 | Darius Tahir

Posted on 10/15/2013 12:17:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Not set-up for copy-and-paste, must read at source.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: medicine; nurses; obamacare; physicians

1 posted on 10/15/2013 12:17:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

what could go wrong? (sarcasm)

2 posted on 10/15/2013 12:30:46 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The headline alone could infer this is sarcasm or satire. I thought liberals love regulations. Why would they support de-regulation of medical procedures? I’m a conservative but I still believe that some medical regulations are necessary. Just imagine if you are facing a life or death ailment and an unlicensed doctor is going to operate on you. I understand that UN funded hospitals and medical clinics around the globe hire unlicensed doctors. In case you’re curious I have written about how the UN implements ObamaCare:

http://www.unpost.org/un-medical-services/


3 posted on 10/15/2013 12:32:36 AM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The vision is back to horse and buggy days. The snake oil salesman comes into the little town with all his snake oil in his wagon. At the rate we’re going it won’t be long.


4 posted on 10/15/2013 2:48:02 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: TexGrill

It’s already here. Many production line type clinics allow (require?) patients to see PAs (physician’s assistants) instead of actual physicians for routine matters.


5 posted on 10/15/2013 3:37:44 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
what could go wrong? (sarcasm)


6 posted on 10/15/2013 3:49:20 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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To: Real Cynic No More

Wow, has America sunk that low? I haven’t returned to the US since about 4 years ago. I recall a time when American medical care was perceived as best in the world. A year ago, I met an American executive who told me that more US doctors were moving to China to work here. He said, ObamaCare regulations were imposing too many restrictions on doctors and these doctors could enjoy more freedom to work in China. He cited a so-called regulation that mandated time-limits on medical check-ups in the US. Doctors in the US could face punitive measures for exceeding a time limit of a patient’s visit, and in China there is no such law.


7 posted on 10/15/2013 3:56:38 AM PDT by TexGrill (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Why couldn’t the consumer just ask to see the doctors qualifications diplomas ect.


8 posted on 10/15/2013 4:53:01 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Back to surgery at the barber shop!! You did know that the red stripes on the barber pole are to symbolize blood, right?


9 posted on 10/15/2013 5:04:24 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, I’m finding that many nurse practitioners are better suited to see patients. They are more intuitive than many of the docs that can’t speak English.


10 posted on 10/15/2013 5:05:33 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For much of the USA’s history, doctors couldn’t do much more than set broken bones and sew up cuts, or bleed you to death as a ‘treatment’. That all changed with the advent of penicillin and other modern pharmaceuticals. Doctors could suddenly save lives and extend lifetimes. However, many state and US laws were passed which restricted the ability to prescribe these lifesaving medications to an elite few. Suddenly, only graduates of a few medical schools could do this, and the doctor’s associations limits the admissions to even these. It seems to me like some balance might be in order.


11 posted on 10/15/2013 5:10:00 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: TexGrill

How about ISO 18,000 standards for medical practitioners? There could be say 5 or 6 grades of practitioners from hospital staffers through brain or cardiac surgeons.

The staffers would be ISO rates 18001.3 the surgeons would be 18952.1 or some such. By seeing their color coded ID badge and ISO rating number a patient would be able to judge his care expected level from the scrub clad person.

Then the barcoded badges with RF chips would provide data to card readers such that time with patients could be recorded and automatically billed. A caregiver that inadvertently came in to the room of a patient that was not within his or her specialty would not be billed.

I think we have the technology, it’s just matter of implementation


12 posted on 10/15/2013 5:17:24 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Allowing Janitors to diagnose patients would really drive down costs.

Just saying.


13 posted on 10/15/2013 5:20:11 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doubling the number of residency slots and greatly increasing the number of medical school slots, allowing supply to meet the demand of people who want to become doctors would be better long term.


14 posted on 10/15/2013 5:23:33 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2
Doubling the number of residency slots and greatly increasing the number of medical school slots, allowing supply to meet the demand of people who want to become doctors would be better long term.

True, but it's taken them 20 years to create the current supply problem (by limiting residency training positions), and it would take at least 20 years to begin to alleviate it, even if they started tomorrow. Which they are not going to do, since Obamacare doesn't even begin to address the problem.

I'll be on the wrong side of the grass long before this is fixed, if it ever is. As one of my bosses in a prior life used to say, "Don't get sick!"

15 posted on 10/15/2013 6:06:34 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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To: 2ndDivisionVet; sickoflibs; Liz; neverdem

Next step will be totally pitting doctors against patients as doctors attempt to survive by insisting patients pay their bills BEFORE seeing a doctor... Oh wait, that’s already started:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-14/patients-pay-before-seeing-doctor-as-deductibles-spread.html

The horror after that will be ‘insurance’ will be taken directly out of citizens paychecks ... or checking accounts.

Then the moaning about ‘entitlement programs’ starts: middle class people will be ‘means tested’ out of the program, but they’ll have to continue paying for it.

Doctors? It’ll take a two year degree and many citizens will die and or be maimed.


16 posted on 10/15/2013 9:07:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: TexGrill

Medical societies comprised of (surprise) doctors have done a pretty good if not perfect job of keeping things on the up and up.

Injecting politicians into that, many of whom haven’t had any further experience with medicine than taking aspirins and putting on band-aids, is asking for tragedy.


17 posted on 10/15/2013 9:12:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: GOPJ

As I love to tell my doctor——”you mean the AMA didn’t tell its membership about that when it endorsed Obamacare?”


18 posted on 10/15/2013 9:30:44 AM PDT by Liz
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