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1 posted on 05/03/2009 7:52:50 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

The objective is TO GET CONTROL over people’s lives by using socialized medicine. The goal is CERTAINLY not improving health care. He cannot do that and really does not care to.

It is all about control by socialists. Has nothing to do with your health or mine....at all.


2 posted on 05/03/2009 7:55:53 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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“The costs of medical education are so high that people feel that they’ve got to specialize.”

Ok, either I haven't had enough coffee yet, or that sentence makes absolutely no sense.

Does he think an ENT or a pediatrician or a cardiac specialist attends LESS school? WTH is he talking about?

3 posted on 05/03/2009 8:00:02 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: HangnJudge

Actually the biggest reason there are too few doctors is that medicine is hard. There’s a very limited pool of people who are smart enough and have the desire to do the grueling 12 years (or more depending on the specialization) of study.

That’s why it seems like every other person you meet is studying to be a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant or aroma therapist or some such thing. They get to help people in a shorter time period and with a much lower likelihood of failure.


7 posted on 05/03/2009 8:09:17 AM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: HangnJudge

I’ve already heard from surgeons that say they will just quit. No sense in working to not get paid .


8 posted on 05/03/2009 8:09:40 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: HangnJudge
Before we commit billions to educating more doctors, remember this:

One half of USA doctor visits result in NO quantifiable improvement in the patient’s condition.

Despite spending trillions for research and treatment, modern medicine has few answers to the physical destruction of old age.

In 2009, the greatest enemy of good health is your BIRTHDAY.

Medical research will slowly extend the human life span and quality of life.

Increasing the number of clinical doctors will make only a minor contribution to public health in the coming decades.

20 posted on 05/03/2009 9:49:11 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: HangnJudge
This quote demonstrates precisely the stilted logic based on flimsy assumptions that characterizes the intellect of our statist Stalinist new presidential administration.

There, fixed it.

23 posted on 05/03/2009 9:58:43 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: HangnJudge

Visited my GP recently and we got to taking about this. He said (paraphrased), “There’s no money in what I’m doing. Shudda been a surgeon. If this (nobama’s plan) goes through, I’m gonna retire.” I would guess this guy is in his mid 50s.


30 posted on 05/03/2009 3:28:01 PM PDT by upchuck (I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
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