Posted on 01/30/2006 12:56:31 PM PST by libertarianPA
Too late. It has already failed.
Why would these stupid doctors want more government interference in their work? What could they possibly gain other than increased ways to defraud the patient and the feds?
Doctors say, "Just don't get sick!"
It's only a matter of time before the government starts to determine which doctors can go into special practice and which must go into primary care.
Right now, what's the incentive to go into primary care when your fees are pre-determined by medicare and the government regulates insurers to the point where they must deny any claim for procedures or therapies that aren't guaranteed solutions?
Bingo!
Because it's worked so well in the past. /sarcasm
The harsh truth is that the government has already confiscated huge amounts of money from the people who are already at, or near an age to be eligible for Medicare. That large chunk of the population has been forced into a position where they have little choice but to support the continuation of the government-paid health care system, since the government already has their money. Doctors know this all too well.
Well, yeah, what do they expect? Human med doctors make more than veterinarians, yet they both had to go to medical school. Is that fair?
HillaryCare is here.
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I think the biggest thing these docs are asking for is a restructure in the reimbursement plans of most of the HMOs. They will reimburse the regular family doc who is smart enough to diagnose a huge range of problems next to nothing- while a specialist who has one small field to dwell on a huge chunk of money. In my opinion, both are very important to our medical practices.
People need to quit going to the Dr. for every little ache/malady...and make them pay cash.....
"The harsh truth is that the government has already confiscated huge amounts of money from the people who are already at, or near an age to be eligible for Medicare. That large chunk of the population has been forced into a position where they have little choice but to support the continuation of the government-paid health care system, since the government already has their money. Doctors know this all too well."
That bears repeating! And as another poster said, people need to quit going to the doctor for every time they sniffle.
"Well, yeah, what do they expect? Human med doctors make more than veterinarians, yet they both had to go to medical school. Is that fair?"
AGGGH
LET THE FREE MARKET WORK
SHORTAGE OF PRIMARY CARE DOCTORS = PRIMARY CARE DOCTORS EARN MORE MONEY = MORE PRIMARY CARE DOCTORS = PRICE STABILIZES DEPENDING ON THE ELASTICITY OF PRICE.
A freshman microeconomics student could solve this.
Isn't this request what HMOs were set up to do ????? In an HMO you must go to a primary care physician first; so where's the real gripe ?
Medicare. Medicare. Medicare. Forcing doctors to see patients for lower rates than they want to charge.
Get the government out of healthcare, go to high deductible type insurance, rein in the trial lawyers, and see the vast majority of problems disappear.
This is already happening. The federal government, through its grants supporting research and teaching hospitals, has a great deal to say about how many specialists are trained. I am told that since Hillary decided that specialists are too expensive, the government has tried to curtail the supply in some fields.
I know a young medical-school graduate who wanted to be a surgeon. (He had a real talent for surgery.) But he was told that there were not enough surgery slots. He ended up in psychiatry.
That's exactly what Hillary's healthcare was all about.
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