[SeekAndFind]

"Would you think that a single payer system is a good idea or a bad idea if it removed all health insurance premiums, but also increased your taxes?" the pollsters asked. With the added information, support dropped, but not as much as one might expect. Fifty-nine percent, just slightly down from 65%, still called it a "good idea.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s because the current insurance billing system is so complex and corrupt they are willing to accept Big Brother rather than continue to deal with it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’d think 100% would support paperwork relief.

But once you get single payer, you get price controls. I’d think the long-term trend would be for physicians who paid their own way through medical school to retire early, and for the government to get involved in financing of medical education, with moderation of financial returns for doctors.

If the English NHS is any guide, quality and availability would eventually drop. At first, it might seem good to many patients, because of the elimination of hassle. But you’d be taking advantage of a temporary surplus of doctors as you cut their earnings. As I like to say, “It’s always a party when you’re eating the seed corn.”

[stars & stripes forever]

Ask Cuban doctors if they like the single payer system.

[silverleaf]

How can “ Medicare” cover every citizen when we had to pay deductions for many years and wait until age 65 to use it?

[BlueStateRightist]

Not a surprise. Physicians currently are younger and female. Socialist ideals follow that demographic. This will only get worse.

[Rurudyne]

Constitution? No, that doesn’t matter!

[Seruzawa]

Oh looky. A bunch of university commies did a “study” and found out that most US physicians are commies too and want to be part of the Collective. I’m shocked.

[arkfreepdom]

I’m a physician. I know no doc who wants single payer.

[loveliberty2]

Have we come so far in our decline from the ideas of liberty laid out in our Declaration of Independence and structured into a strictly limited form of self government that we voluntarily submit ourselves into slavery to government under the ideas of tyranny of Progressives?

We are in another "time for truth," as laid out by President Reagan

[Red Badger]

Millennial doctors........................

[Chode]

maybe the ones that are in big practices or are hospital employees and paid a salary, but private practices not so much

[dan on the right]

BS

If this is true, why is it so hard to find Doctors who take Medicare or Medicaid?

I’ll tell you why. Medicare and Medicaid don’t pay. The discounts are too deep to make a living.

Another dishonest poll!

[Gay State Conservative]

My Cardiologist,a feisty old guy who was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for almost 50 years,recently retired.During my many visits with him (we were friends as well as doctor-patient) he told me of the mountains of paperwork and bureaucracy he had to deal with in his practice.He told me at my last visit that that was the main reason he was retiring.

He was also a "progressive",at least as it concerned health care (although we once discussed "transgenderism",which he accepts as legitimate).

[Tazzo]

I am a practicing physician. My political views on most issues are to the right of what is commonly presented on this forum. However “Health Insurance” has become “Prepaid Healthcare”. Like any pre-paid service, insurance companies make money by NOT providing care. Of all the insurance providers, Medicare has the most equitable policies (except Medicare Advantages plans). As much as I hate to admit it, Medicare for all will provide the best alternative to what we have now. I see no alternative.

[grumpygresh]

It’s probably because most physicians are employees now. As an employee, it doesn’t matter how you are paid, just that you are paid. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some unionization among the physician employees now that they have accepted socialized medicine.

On the other hand, many of the solo and small group practices are dropping Medicare, Medicaid and even commercial insurance and going to all self pay.

The tiered care system is upon us. Want fast service, self pay. Don’t mind waiting; single payer.

[Salgak]

I also support Single-payer. . . although not THEIR sort of single-payer.

In MY version. . .you pay your own bills. In cash. At time of service. With charges disclosed in advance.

You insure for reimbursement of specified bills.

[WKUHilltopper]

Docs have been threatened with massive Medicare audits?

[OttawaFreeper]

I recall finding on Google News Archive an article in the Ottawa Citizen from about 1982 and it was an interview with a doctor who for many years worked at one of our major hospitals until about two or three years earlier. He got fed up with how the government controlled everything from his billing, how much hospitals spent on food, when certain procedures and surgeries were to be done and at what cost, etc. He moved to Arkansas and immediately found far more freedom in terms of how many more patients he could serve and how more fully he could serve them and do all sorts of other things in terms of delivery of his services that were greatly restricted back up here.

[Huskrrrr]

“How can “ Medicare” cover every citizen when we had to pay deductions for many years and wait until age 65 to use it?”

But didn’t San Fran Nan tell us that Obamacare would reduce the deficit?

[RoseofTexas]

Perfectl Played by the globalist establishment...how quickly we are turning into a third world nation!! I hate the freakin liberals they are a cancer in society!! Everything they touch become fecal matter!! EVERYTHING!!