Posted on 07/05/2012 1:33:26 PM PDT by Positive
I piqued my own curiosity and did a search to see how many "Physicans" there are in the US...according to the FSMB (Federation of State Medical Boards), whatever club that is, there are slighly over 850,000.
So that entire "Physician Leaders" outfit is comprised of no more than 1.1% of the Docs... which again begs the question: Why does the Wall Street Journal MarketWatch think this is INFORMATION???
This survey is BS
My brother is a Medical Admin consultant for a number of practices in South Florida. None of the doctors he represents wants ObamaCare
And these are not conservative doctors. My brother has to remind me “OK, chill on the Rush conservative talk around Dr so-and-so” when I meet one his clients. These are quite liberal doctors...but know that ObamaCare pretty much kills their businesses
Most Drs. are crap-scared of ObamaCare
Physician leader = insurance, hospital company executives or academics. Insurance and hospital executives are crony capitalists, and academics are Leftist ideologues. These guys are also AMA members.
Don’t worry, the physicians in private practice get economics and business and they absolutely HATE 0-care.
You are absolutely correct. For the most part, you wouldn't want any of these people treating anyone. Medicine is one of those professions (among many I'd bet) in which those doing the work are way too busy to watch their own backs, and thus they are vulnerable to those who don't actually see patients and spend most of their time playing ‘politics’ and accomplishing little.
Physician leader=person who has never practiced medicine...
This survey is BS on methodolgical basis as well.
There could very likely be a response bias. Perhaps all the liberals emailed each other to respond like we Freepers freep a poll.
AHHHHHChhhoooo....sorry, allergen to BS
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