What good will Obamacare do if 83% of the Dr's quit?
DJL
2012/07/05 06:36:27
KEY FINDINGS
- 90% say the medical system is on the WRONG TRACK
- 83% say they are thinking about QUITTING
- 61% say the system challenges their ETHICS
- 85% say the patient-physician relationship is in a TAILSPIN
- 65% say GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT is most to blame for current problems
- 72% say individual insurance mandate will NOT result in improved access care
- 49% say they will STOP accepting Medicaid patients
- 74% say they will STOP ACCEPTING Medicare patients, or leave Medicare completely
- 52% say they would rather treat some Medicaid/Medicare patient for FREE
- 57% give the AMA a FAILING GRADE representing them
- 1 out of 3 doctors is HESITANT to voice their opinion
- 2 out of 3 say they are JUST SQUEAKING BY OR IN THE RED financially
- 95% say private practice is losing out to CORPORATE MEDICINE
- 80% say DOCTORS/MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS are most likely to help solve things
- 70% say REDUCING GOVERNMENT would be single best fix
Read More: http://www.redstate.com/lineholder/2012/06/14/is-o...
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Heffeweizen 2012/07/05 06:43:00
LOL
"It's a good national model." Well what was actually said? Romney said, "the President could learn a lot about health care reform from his Massachusetts plan" in 2009. That is pretty open comment. Learning a lot could mean many things, including what NOT to do. Other comments that say the same type of things are; "number of features in Massachusetts plan that could inform Washington on ways to improve health care for all Americans,", "able to get people insured without a government option" As for "Romney said the mandate was essential to bringing health care costs down." Well that never happened, did it?
http://www.theatlanticwire.co...
"There's a better way," Romney said. "And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it." Doesn't mean follow the exact same plan, does it? http://www.dailykos.com/story...
There is no evidence that Romney actually saw this as a plan for the Feds to follow. ‘If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.’”
"At the very least, Romney has clearly viewed his efforts as a model for other states across the nation. On April 11, 2006, the day before he signed his health care legislation into law, he wrote in a Wall Street Journa...
"It's a good national model." Well what was actually said? Romney said, "the President could learn a lot about health care reform from his Massachusetts plan" in 2009. That is pretty open comment. Learning a lot could mean many things, including what NOT to do. Other comments that say the same type of things are; "number of features in Massachusetts plan that could inform Washington on ways to improve health care for all Americans,", "able to get people insured without a government option" As for "Romney said the mandate was essential to bringing health care costs down." Well that never happened, did it?
http://www.theatlanticwire.co...
"There's a better way," Romney said. "And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it." Doesn't mean follow the exact same plan, does it? http://www.dailykos.com/story...
There is no evidence that Romney actually saw this as a plan for the Feds to follow. ‘If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation.’”
"At the very least, Romney has clearly viewed his efforts as a model for other states across the nation. On April 11, 2006, the day before he signed his health care legislation into law, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed ... “How much of our health-care plan applies to other states? A lot.” Clearly says 'applies to other states', meaning the states can implement such plans. But that was before the empirical evidence of the failures of RomneyCare. http://answers.yahoo.com/ques...
"'It would be wrong to adopt this as a nation.'
In a move uncharacteristic for the non-Mitts thus far, Santorum (and Rick Perry) correctly challenged Romney on his demonstrably false statement:" And this is not false, as shown above. The comment used to challenge Romney refers not to the nation but the states taking up the plan.
In addition, I would like to re-post my initial post, addressing this whole irrational and unsupported fear that doctors are going quit due to Obamacare:
"[T]hat argument doesn't hold up. When you look at the data for OECD countries in healthcare, countries that have some sort of government health care tend to, on average, have MORE doctors in relation to their populations, not less. Those countries also pay less for health care and get better results. I would also like to point out that Obamacare has already started to take affect and we still have doctors.
SOURCE: http://stats.oecd.org/index.a... [FIXED]
^Not a biased web source, unlike "redstate". Come on, at least TRY to find objective, reliable sources."
Some people don't think, these doctors not only have to pay overhead for the facility, equipment and employees, their malpractice insurance started skyrocketing back in the 80's. Some of them are still paying the student loans. My cousin may he RIP, he opted to work and to pay for his med school with some additional help from his family and he wound up managing a Respiratory Therapy group because he could make more money that way than opening up practice after graduating Med School.
There is a lot more to it than meets the eye
I don't suppose you have "Good Samaritan laws" in your country. Countries with a Christian tradition do have these laws.