Doctors would take less if their malpractice insurance wasn’t so damn high. Tort reform would help.
Snort! Bet nobody saw THAT coming.
Vicious, unreconstructed Stalinists.
Typical commie response. Akin to forced starvation in the Soviet bloc.
The best solution is if 100% of doctors and hospitals leave ALL insurance (including Medicare) and set up a pure free market for all medical care. Patients could opt out of all employer sponsored insurance, set up their own HSA’s (pre-tax) and buy whatever extra insurance they want on an interstate free market. Insurance would reimburse the patients directly after they submit the claims for their medical care. Remove the middleman as much as possible and watch the prices fall. The GOP should be touting this plan, as it’s very simple to explain. Tort reform, a tougher goal, would be a long term objective.
Under the undocumented Tyrant and the EXEMPT Congress,
only THEY and al Qaeda and Moslems are not to be
slaves, unlike all other Americans and their physicians.
The average age of a doctor is 55. So how does this twit propose to punish those who just decide to retire?
Didn’t Hillary’s scheme have provisions allowing The State to dictate where doctors would live, what they were going to specialize in, and punishments if they tried to leave the profession or leave the country?
The idiotic liberal mind just can’t wrap it’s tiny self around the concept that doctors should be paid more than union bakers making Twinkies…...
ObamaCare is all about money, control, and votes. It has nothing to do with doctors and patients.
Money: The only entities that make out are Big Government and insurance companies (although nationalization of the insurers is coming down the road).
Control: Obamacare has suffocated business and individuals with all of it’s onorous regulations. Look at how the individual mandate is destroying individuals policies (how many millions have lost health care in the last ~60 days). Wait till the employer mandate goes into effect. Many small businesses are going out of business and larger businesses are leaving jobs unfilled. Obamacare is a job killer. Since the White House controls the Census and the Department of Labor, no one can trust the jobs numbers any more, and you will never know the true damage Obamacare is doing to the labor market.
Votes: Obamacare is creating a whole new class of people who actually get thru the signup process. It’s going to be the largest expansion of medicaid in history. The fines will eventually drag everyone without health care into the system.
How about we cut the salary of politicians who pass stupid laws?
The idiotic liberal mind just can’t wrap it’s tiny self around the concept that doctors should be paid more than union bakers making Twinkies…...
“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.
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.