[El Conservador]

Doctors for bureaucratized health care

[Thane_Banquo]

Physicians Against Freedom PAC.

[ARCADIA]

So when do these doctors cross the line and become an illegal collusion for the purpose of fixing prices? Perhaps it is time to disband the American Medical Association.

[willieroe]

Earlier thread from August 12: Nearly 8,000 doctors call for national health insurance

[Monty22]

Ok, cut their salaries to $20k a year and see how they like it.

[Always Right]

Doctors for bureaucratized health care

These morons, and they are morons, think that a government run health care system will have less red tape.

[coloradan]

Doctors for communism.

Hey, the reason it not only didn't work in China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea, and Cambodia but also led to the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people by their own government, is because the right people weren't in charge.

[pbear8]

Harvard-educated socialist doctors for National Socialist Unhealthly NonCare.

[alloysteel]

Doctors and physicians not roped in enough already, they got to call for even MORE restrictions on themselves? A nationalized health care system would be just a bigger HMO, and practically everybody I have ever talked to who had to get serious medical attention in an HMO has come away with few kind words for the experience.

And if you think inferior doctors are not held to account nearly well enough now (a serious factor in malpractice insurance), well, when they can shift responsibility off to a faceless bureaucracy, NOBODY may expect much redress for bungled procedures. But it is a wonderful way to keep lawyers employed.

Meanwhile, highly competent doctors will either move to another country where their skills and expertise will be appreciated, or take retirement. The world is running out of places for them to relocate.

[facedown]

Let 'em go to Canada. We won't miss 'em.

[supercat]

Perhaps the headline should be rewritten:

A HANDFULL OF Doctors Call for National Health Insurance

I think that gives a more accurate impression.

[Intolerant in NJ]

8000 self-selected physicians = about 1 percent of all physicians in the country - hardly a representative group worth listening to........

[Lizavetta]

* The program would be paid for by combining current sources of government health spending into a single fund with modest new taxes that would be fully offset by reductions in premiums and out-of-pocket spending.

* The proposed single payer NHI would save at least $200 billion annually

* Administrative savings would fully offset the costs

Question: Has there EVER been a government-run program ANYWHERE that propounded these predictions where they actually OCCURRED? We hear this shit in ALL proposals for the government taking over services and it ALWAYS costs zillions more and provides crappy service. When will we learn?

[Radix]

Do you have a list of these doctors? I want to be certain that my physician is not one of them!

[Lizavetta]

I wonder how many of these doctors are the often-sued variety, and are pushing for socialized medicine as a form of protection from malpractice lawsuits....which brings me to my second point. How likely is it that the lawyers would allow socialized medicine to occur? Wouldn't that deprive them of a huge source of income, as you can't sue the government?

[Always Right]

In an unprecedented show of physician support for National Health Insurance (NHI), 7,782 U.S. physicians propose single payer NHI in an article in the August 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Leaving an unprecedented 692,118 U. S. physicians who choose not to sign....I am so glad they are so enthusiastic about their 1% support level for this.