Posted on 06/29/2012 11:17:00 AM PDT by roses of sharon
"I think it is good news. More people will learn about prevention strategies from clinicians with some affordable health coverage. Those with preexisting conditions will be able to get coverage and medical guidance. Hopefully, the suboptimal parts of the bill will be modified."—Dr Roger Blumenthal (Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD)
"I was stunned by the Supreme Court ruling. . . . While I think most Americans favor some form of healthcare reform to address the 30 million or so uninsured Americans and the underinsured, I believe there are ways to achieve this short of mandating insurance for all those who do not feel the government should intrude on a personal freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution. As a Department of Veterans Affairs physician, I see our integrated healthcare system. . . . as a possible model that could be potentially retrofitted (or expanded) in some way to accommodate the healthcare needs of uninsured Americans, most of whom cannot afford healthcare."—Dr William E Boden (Albany Medical Center, NY)
"I think this is good. The country can proceed with coverage for more people and move onto the real issue—how to make the healthcare system more cost-efficient. The switch away from fee for service to accountable-care organizations, where we try to decide how to most effectively and efficiently care for our patients—will be a huge change but one we need to take. I look forward to the challenges ahead and hope it all improves our healthcare system."—Dr Christopher Cannon (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"I am very pleased that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. We need universal health insurance for a whole host of reasons. Without it, people avoid getting the care they need or they can't access necessary healthcare. No one should have their financial security ruined if they don't have health insurance and develop serious health problems. However, it is also clear that the ACA may lead to an increase in healthcare costs, with more Americans able to access healthcare. We need to work to make healthcare more cost-effective as we expand coverage."—Dr Anne B Curtis (University at Buffalo, NY)
"I'm thrilled. I was worried it was going to go the wrong way. This could have an enormous impact on this excellent attempt to improve healthcare delivery in the US. I consider the primary responsibility of any government to be able to provide healthcare and education to its people, and I think it's about time the US faced up to their responsibility with regard to healthcare.—Dr Kenneth Dickstein, expat American (University of Bergen Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway)
"While medicine is an art, healthcare is a business. Although not perfect, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act starts us in the right direction by providing all Americans with affordable quality healthcare. Doing this comes at a cost—a cost that must be borne by all who participate in the benefits of a strong healthcare system. It requires a commitment on the part of the hospital and provider community to create a system that rewards value, not volume."—Dr Peter L Duffy (FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Pinehurst NC)
"The overarching problem remains that of our healthcare cost and its unsustainable rate of growth. It is incumbent upon the medical community, including its providers and representative organizations, to recognize the urgency of this matter and to collaborate with legislative and regulatory bodies to bend the cost of healthcare while promoting quality and innovation."—Dr Tony Farah (West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, PA)
"[Obama] won a Supreme Court decision and will lose reelection as a result. SCOTUS upheld what is essentially a form of taxation. Employers are opposed given the increase in costs of bringing on new employees, and this will stall any economic recovery. You will see a sector swing out of healthcare investment, and innovation will now been driven out of medicine. You can look forward to increased access to generic medicines and less access to innovation. Rather than being 'first-in-human,' the US can now look forward to being 'last-in-human.' "—Dr C Michael Gibson (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"I have been an enthusiastic supporter. . . . As a practitioner, I have seen too many people who evolved to advanced stages of illness because of their inability to access the healthcare system at earlier, more treatable stages of their disorder. In addition, I have seen too many people who became recidivists after successful treatment of acute problems because they were not able to access follow-up care or afford the medicines necessary to keep them well. In my view, implementation of the Affordable Care Act, by extending access to care to this large segment of the US population, will make a big difference in their health and quality of life."—Dr John Hirshfeld (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA)
"I think the SCOTUS decision is a victory for our patients with heart disease and stroke. The ACA has focused on prevention so that 86 million Americans have already received at least one preventive screening/service in 2011 at no cost sharing for high cholesterol, nutrition, or smoking cessation. This is how we need to move forward. In addition, 61 000 Americans with preexisting medical conditions will continue to have insurance. I am thrilled!"—Dr Mariell Jessup (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia)
"Overall, the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act leaves me full of hope that the millions of Americans now without insurance will have improved access to the healthcare they need. While I am disappointed that the full expansion of Medicaid was not supported, it is likely that this will still benefit countless Americans. The individual mandate is critical to allow the provision that preexisting conditions be covered."—Dr Rachel Lampert (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT)
"I am thrilled that as Americans we are trying to fix the healthcare system. The Supreme Court decision is monumental and will affect all of us Americans (physicians and patients). Of course, as a physician who took the Hippocratic oath, I am dedicated to treat all patients, whether they pay or not. My main concern about this bill is the domino effect that such a decision will have on the funds that must go into this to support it and bring it to fruition. If the effect is less money for research, innovation, cutting-edge technology, and we become a nation with rationed healthcare, I will be most disappointed."—Dr Roxana Mehran (Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY)
"I think the ACA decision is a win for patients and in the long run a win for healthcare. We need to move toward a healthcare system that provides health insurance for all in this country. And we need to evolve away from fee-for-service payment and toward one that promotes longitudinal high-quality and efficient care. In the short run, this will create challenges for physicians, hospitals, and others to adapt to this new system, but it moves us in the right direction. The ACA decision is just the first step down the right road."—Dr Eric D Peterson (Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC)
"I think the decision was good, as it allows us to move ahead and continue to build the additional healthcare reform programs on the foundation laid by the ACA. I think it is especially important that health insurance be affordable if it is mandated coverage, and this means careful attention to promoting high-quality and high-value care and more initiatives and effort to reduce care with no net benefit."—Dr Rita Redberg (University of San Francisco, California)
"I think the real question for all of us, and not just in this country. . . . is the way we use healthcare and the volume at which we use it. We all, doctors and patients, with doctors providing some leadership, need to own up to how much of the care is really unproven and unnecessary and represents a form of waste that doesn't make anyone feel better or live longer. That's one piece we should all focus on in order to find the resources to provide the right care that works for everybody."—Dr Vikas Saini, expat Canadian (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"For cardiologists, the day-to-day practice of medicine goes on. We will continue to provide the best care possible to our patients regardless of their ability to pay. What we know from this ruling is that the government will play an ever-increasing role in how that care is provided. We are striving to develop a rational system of healthcare delivery that rewards excellent patient care, medical innovation, and hard work. Whether the Affordable Care Act brings us closer to that ideal remains to be seen."—Dr Thomas Tu (Louisville Cardiology Group, KY)
"Although the law has some imperfections, the decision is a good one for the people of Michigan. A half million are now eligible for insured healthcare. When we provide stopgap or safety-net care to the uninsured, we are providing neither the highest possible quality nor the least costly care—having the emergency room as your only physician is far short of having a doctor helping you both treat and prevent disease."—Dr W Douglas Weaver (Henry Ford Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute, Detroit MI)
"I am extremely pleased with the Supreme Court's decision, as this will help provide medical care for the millions without it."—Dr Douglas Zipes (Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indianapolis, IN)
The propaganda push has begun in earnest.
Will Romney/Repubs have resolve against this??
Absolutely NO WAY.
It is up to us.
Most of these quoted physicians work for publicly funded entities.
I can see how someone who makes a living selling hypertension drugs might consider this ruling good for business.. but for slightly different reasons!
It is too late I truly fear!
Who you going to beleive...some body carrying a sign at a rally or 9 out 10 dentists agree...
Advertising is a proven medium...this message has been being worked for months and 24 hours after announcement from SC...we have it.
It is too late I truly fear!
Who you going to believe...some body carrying a sign at a rally or 9 out 10 dentists agree...
Advertising is a proven medium...this message has been being worked for months and 24 hours after announcement from SC...we have it.
(* The median compensation of cardiologists surveyed was $325,000 in 2011. Do you believe they want to see cost competition come to medicine? Or they're happy with the way things are?)
Sure....but the point is that those who represent us WILL cave to this propaganda pressure.
We cannot wait for them any longer.
Dream on... While Very few favor having 30 million additional insured - who can pay absolutely zero, making them your new masters, and you the slaves (think about it) is there even 1 new doctor provided for those 30 million in this bill?
That's right, not one.
Follow the money. The MD bums have either a poublic-funded position, are grant recipients of public money or have some other transfer of money to them. Bums all.
The health care is only affordable if you have a low wage or no job then it will be paid for. I will have to pay the penalty because I can not afford to pay 8% of my slary for healthcare so I will have to pay $3,000.00 for no healthcare.
Doctors are not known for the economic sense. What a moron. Does he really think government ever reduces the cost of anything or that it promotes innovation? We will be just like other countries with socialized medicine. We will all have little cards saying we have coverage, but nobody will be able to see a doctor or get treatment.
A bunch of useful idiot liberal doctors (oh, if they understood political science a quarter as well as they do medicine) rave over something that smarter doctors know, if not stopped, will put a serious damper on the quality of health care not just in the USA but worldwide.
LOL. Yeah, well, I am sure any media Obamugabe feces eater will be able to craft a cabal of liberal doctors to spew out the regime’s line.
That is what media Obamugabe feces eaters do.
And doctors themselves will go begging.
My dad’s cardiologist & his partner have both said they will quit/retire if Obamacare goes into effect. The one doctor was fussing Wednesday about the paperwork/data collection & how crappy the reports are. Not happy. Many years of experience will be lost when they leave medicine.
LOL! Most of these guys in this article deserve what’s coming.
So sad and maddening....hope they are planning to go public somehow with their opinions!
I bet these Doctors just can’t wait until their compensation for treating all patients is the same as it is now for TRICARE and MEDICARE patients and their patient load triples
Good Times! (sarc)
They better pay off those student loans now
“Doctors are not known for the economic sense.”
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I’m a DO and can attest to the fact that while younger doctors (under 35, say) are intelligent and usually mean well, they’re often remarkably unsophisticated in the ways of the world.
By the time you’re done with college and (to a much greater extent) internship and residency don’t provide much opportunity for growth in area’s other than medicine.
Personally, I think the system stinks. I could take any reasonably intelligent person and turn them into a competent first line practitioner of clinical medicine in 3 or so years whether they knew what an golgi body or a ribosome was before we started or not.
On the other hand I know people who’ve been through 12 years of medical schooling and somehow managed to pass the boards who I wouldn’t let near my pets.
As to who these people were, many (tho not all) were known derisively as TWA’s by hospital workers.
Third World Assassin’s.
The claims that Obamacare will reduce health care costs are particularly foolish. Andrew Wilkow pointed this out on his show this morning.
Obamacare does nothing to reduce the cost, or price, of health care; it merely redistributes wealth to make it easier for some to pay for it. The thousands of pages of garbage in the bill were just obfuscation for yet another redistribution scheme.
Of course, not surprising since we know that the real goal isn’t to improve health care, but rather to make as many people as possible dependent on the government for their very lives. Couple this with their approach to illegal immigration and you can easily see the plan is to draw as many gullible new constituents to their side as possible in order to create permanent power for themselves.
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