Posted on 03/15/2012 11:38:19 AM PDT by trappedincanuckistan
Heath care is an expensive product, with high demand chasing limited supply. There are only so many doctors, and training new ones requires a long education at great personal expense. Meanwhile, advances in medicine are steadily prolonging life and improving its quality.
It follows that if we want to decrease the cost of health care (or, to use the currently popular political vernacular, “improve access”) we need more doctors. Conversely, reducing the supply of doctors would make medical care more expensive, and reduce its quality. If government controls are then applied to skyrocketing costs, shortages and rationing would be the inevitable result.
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I know my doctor absolutely hates it and he says he’s a democrat.
It was all a downhill slide starting with HMO’s and PPO’s.
I knew that when they told me I could PICK my own doctor, as long as it wasn’t the one I currently had, and as long as it was on the ‘list’, and as long as they were not already fully booked. What they didn’t tell me was that I would be sitting in a waiting room for hours, and that I wouldn’t be seeing the doctor, I would be treated by a ‘candystriper’.
Then why did doctors sit around on their hands while the thint was being forced into law?
My wife’s PCP told my wife he was retiring because of DeathCare(tm). He retired last month.
Our PCP retired about a year ago. Since then, we have had difficulty finding a good one. I have the feeling many good doctors have retired due to the fact that they won’t be able to treat their patients.
Obamacare aside, we also hate having to explain patient’s OWN insurance coverage to them, filing paper work for them and WAITING to be paid.
All this, IN ADDITION to trying to actually....you know....take care of their health.
They were told it would work out much better than that HMO/PPO thing the government sold them on last time.
Exactly...they sure aren’t fighting it too hard...must have been the $$ incentives to be early adopters.
My dermatologist is livid - he said 16 years of training and they (meaning the government) always hammer the doctor. He is as angry about this as I am.
My son could not even imagine that I had him without insurance...this is inconcievable to him but in those days things were far less complicated - not to mention less expensive. Then the government got their dirty mitts on our health care and now they’re ruining it.
It's intentional.
Doctor shortage? No problem - Import doctors from China - Cuba... Bring in nurses from the Philippines.... Ramp up medical programs that take less time - much less time. Bring in students who once would flunk out of an education major.
If you don't like it, watch Mom die without pain pills... same threat for that much loved grandchild...
It's worse than that. Doctors pay huge malpractice and liability premiums even if their records are clean. Then for the government to come in and tell them they can only charge so much for their fees, makes being a doctor an economic non-starter. Many simply won't make ends meet so why not retire now? Or move overseas?
All the horror stories you've heard about Canadian health care are coming to America. It won't be long.
They did’t. Remember they stood behind Obama while he told us how all doctors supported this takeover.
Because most doctors are experts in the field of medicine but poor business men.
With one major exception, the doctors that started "Subway."
I think the American Medical Association, never comprising more than 19% of US doctors, simply, with the full cooperation of the specialty societies, ran interference between unorganized private practice MDs, the majority of MDs today, and the Executive Branch of govt. and the Congress. While private MDs published editorials, wrote letters to Congressmen, etc., they simply had no effect on Congress as the AMA did. The AMA never represented private doctors, and the Congress and the Executive Branch blindly accepted as fact that it did represent all doctors. In the end, the public is at fault here in general for liking handouts and grabbing all that is offered. Well, here we are. The handouts are about to be rationed and distributed in predetermined unpalatable flavors.
Now that's a blanket statement!
This one was on the phone and computer, multiple times, to my state representatives.
The MDs were sold out by the AMA, whose leadership is leftist. Most MDs don't even belong to the AMA.
I recall just prior to the 2008 election how many MDs were singing the praises of the Kenyan. Now, they are very quiet and the bumper stickers are gone.
Those were hand-picked liberals, and many of them med school students. Didn’t reflect at all the actual opinion of your average doctor.
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