Posted on 04/27/2009 4:22:50 PM PDT by neverdem
(from the Affirmative Action Pres__ent).
Cheers!
Tax credits or loan forgiveness is a damn sight cheaper than anything the Zero administration is going to cook up.
It’s also a damn sight cheaper than increasing medicare/medicaid payments across the board in perpetuity.
Would you spend a nickel to save $500?
Unleash a deadly pandemic. Problem solved. /sarc.?
I dont want to give a doctor one dime. Zero. Nothing. That’s crazy. What’s the matter with you?
Import ‘em from Cuba [/sarc]
Dude, you already are through your payroll taxes. You’re paying for any doctor that accepts medicare or medicaid.
***The cheap fix is to pay or forgive their student loans in exchange for practicing as a primary care position for 3 years.
You want ME to pay off doctor’s loans? Is that what you just said?***
Just wait.
Zero will forgive ALL student loans if he thinks it will help him in the next election.
***Unleash a deadly pandemic. Problem solved. /sarc.?***
How LOL Jonathan Swift of you.
You think there is a shortage now, wait until they actually start implementing their plans.
We’ll be importing doctors from Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, etc.
As a physician would you really like working in a government controlled clinic where some faceless bureaucrat tells you how to treat patients?
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Our family physician said he won’t do it and they are looking at homes in Panama, good choice. Every other physician we know is vehemently opposed to working for the government and some flat out said they would leave or retire early.
“Patients, that would be guys like me, should have the option to legally ‘opt out’ of the frivolous lawsuits. Then a dual pricing plan could be offered.”
Frivolous lawsuits do not get filed unless a patient first goes to a lawyer. Not all lawyers are bad, and most will not file frivolous claims.
Patients like you and me (yes, I am a patient, too) do not need to opt out, because we’re only going to sue if there is a serious case for true malpractice, which certainly does happen.
look, (and i am not talking to you, BE) most folks will never feel sorry for doctors, and I do not blame you. This is reflected in the comments above. Some docs are egotistical jerks, who treat folks like crap. But most of us are just regular people, who have worked very hard to obtain training and a license, and in most cases have gone far into debt to get educated. Now the rules are being changed on us, and it doesn’t sit well with very many of us at all.
Our “patriotic duty” will be to work our tails off, at very high risk jobs (liability-wise), for relatively little pay. Very few of us over the age of 50 will continue to practice medicine. This country thinks there is a doctor shortage now? It’s gonna get a lot worse...
In my particular case having just been diagnosed with invasive breast cancer I would be suing the damned officious bureaucrats at the Dept of Health and Welfare in Idaho, especially their director and the woman they assigned to appease me who initially threatened to deport me even though I legally entered this country and then offered me a “carrot” of finding a surgeon willing to cut off the breast and then wait to see if the surgery would possibly be covered as something considered an emergency. And by the way, after the surgery there would be NO follow up treatment even though another lump was discovered during the initial surgical consultation. Welcome to Socialized medicine like Canada has, I lived it before coming down here!
Only if demand isn't being met at the moment. Looks like another little rationing hint.
Two years ago, the NHS introduced an automated system for placement of new physicians. It functioned so poorly that roughly half that year’s graduates didn’t get assigned anywhere. That, and the NHS importing large numbers of doctors from India, is the reason many of England’s brighter new doctors don’t practice in England.
Good reading:
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/
http://www.drrant.net/
In my local practice, half the physicians providing primary care are specialists who haven’t yet built up a full-time practice in their area of specialty. My GP is a nephrologist. My asthma gets short shrift, but I get lots and lots of speculative questions about kidney function. Fortunately, the practice has a great nurse practitioner/medical student who is actually providing most of my primary care.
Hopefully they don't have an ER. If they do, the feds are going to come after them.
Most of the specialists I’ve dealt with have a mandatory arbitration form they want new patients to sign. That’s their solution to the “opt out” issue.
Health Care in America wasn’t broken till the Government got involved in the first place. Starting programs like Medicare & Medicaid have really screwed things up by making Doctors spend more time with paperwork than patients. Now the Government wants to finish the job by taking it over completely. To make matters worse they want to do the same with energy. I feel terrible for the youth of this Nation. Were going to leave them a total disaster.
Well, for that matter, welcome to Tricare.
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