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“The” Stephen Colbert? - he helped get Obama elected.
Hey Steve, their won’t be a shortage after Obamacare kills off the weak, the infirm, and the elderly. Didn’t you get the memo?
I was thinking of alternatives to the Democrat’s socialist health care plan and came up with this: A 100% Federal income tax rebate for any doctor willing to work on a 100% cash only basis. First, this would solve the shortage of PCPs as a tax-free income would be irresistible. Medical costs would go down as doctors no longer need to deal with government and insurance companies and a true market would emerge without third parties subsidizing and distorting prices which would naturally fall in a free-market.
Everyone better start taking red cross training on emergency med and first aid and anything else you can take that they offer.
If you make widgets for a living, and the government comes along and tells you that you have to provide them to the public for free, how much longer will you be willing to make widgets?
Bourgeois “doctors” will be unnecessary in the new Obamunist society. Primary medical care will be provided by ACORN community activists.
The 20-minute podcast interview with Christensen here is very good. I find his remarks about the Massachusetts experience very interesting. He says that Massachusetts has produced "[universal] coverage without care". To be affordable, the insurance has a very high deductible, which means that poor people have to pay retail for their healthcare, hence many don't get the care they need.