Doctors in the USSR didn’t get paid beans. Their health care was third-world bad.
I asked my doctor to sign a form for work the other day he pulled out a thermometer and said some a hole has my pen
CC
I dream of the day when Obama will be sentenced to a lifetime of Obamacare.
What a joke. They take a survey and ask doctors what they think other doctors will do? Why didnt they just ask the doctors themselves what they plan to do?
In my quarterly appointment earlier this month, my internist got sidetracked into a rant regarding all the changing regulations with the insurance companies and pharmaceutial companies. He said it was enough to make him consider early retirement.
Most of the Obamacare regs don’t really hit until next year. That is when we may see chaos in the medical profession — health facilities closing, physicians dropping out, patients getting reduced care, etc.
They are just as good as the real thing. Honest.
The original plan was to destroy the current system of healthcare and replace it with a government run system.
We are going to end up with foreign born and educated doctors prevalent in the system.
In all the debate over Obamacare (which I loathe), nobody seems to point out that doctors don’t exactly have clean hands. They are partially responsible for bringing this monstrosity on all of us.
Why? Widespread acceptance of insurance. They could charge more if someone other than the patient was paying. Well, they charged more.
So now we’re at the point where my friend, who just spent three weeks in Cedars-Sinai Hospital here in Los Angeles for a burst appendix, has a bill for $400,000.
Isn’t anyone else just a little mad at that? At the doctors? At the hospitals? At our current system?
The medical insurance system was, as the lefties love to say, simply not sustainable. So now they get government intervention. What on earth did the AMA expect? What else did any of us expect?
“Two-thirds of physicians in the Deloitte survey say they use an electronic health record (EHR) that meets meaningful use stage 1 requirements, but that number has been lower in other surveys. Three in 5 respondents were satisfied with their EHR. “
What a laugh, this “scientific” poll is a load of cr@p!This survey says 2/3’s of respondents were satisfied with their EHR but The New England Journal of Medicine Feb 2013 says 88% of ALL docs have not attained Meaningful Use Stage 1 requirements, the earliest and EASIEST level to be attained.
And other estimates say that the Meaningful Use Stage 2 and 3 MAY NEVER BE ATTAINED BY 75% of that same group of Stage 1 attainers if the requirements for those stages remain as currently presented.
The union beaurocrat social workers that simply determine eligibility can make more in wages and benefits than Doctors. And they didn’t have to get all the education and take risk along with hard work for a practice. But when something needs to be cut, the public employee unions keep theirs and get the Doc and patients cut.
Obamacare did so take doctors into account. Remember how the president said it’d stop them hacking off feet for a quick buck? Doctors, like all other independent, potentially self-supporting professionals are the enemy. They’re only whining because they won’t be able to bulk you as easily./s
Since last Fall 4 of my doctors have retired.
Why would any American physican choose to become incompetent and poor (turd world) for crazy politicans?
Older American doctors are geared towards improving and saving human life; not killing and neglecting in liberalism’s zero sum “collective.” Most have watched what has happened in the West’s socialized medicine places and thanked their lucky stars they are Americans even though the HMO scheme was a pain.
I know five who have already retired earlier than they would have. I know more who are waiting to see. It is going to be bad. There is a shortage of docs. bringing up the rear to replace this generation of doctors. I can’t imagine any of our really good doctors allowing a hospital to murder death panel targeted patients via no food and water while they moan in their beds. And tolerating the Union rush to the bottom like happened in education? Holy moley.