"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...

"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
"We found that regardless of a physician's political affiliation, the
respondents attributed the practice of defensive medicine to excessive
waste in the health care system," said Rick Jackson, chairman and CEO
of Jackson Healthcare, in a statement."

~~Sorry - no can do. Gotta keep the trial lawyers busy and rich.~~

The survey found that 62 percent of physicians disagreed with the
American Medical Association's (AMA) stance on health care reform. Of
those, 46 percent said they "strongly disagree" with the AMA's stance.

http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlan...1.html?ana=fox

Heh - what a shock.


Nothing wrong with tort reform. But, that's not going to solve the
healthcare cost issue. I know this troubles you, but it's not as simple
as that.

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Where is the Healthcare bill going to solve the cost issue? Maybe the
path of the money to the doctor may change but there is nothing lowering
costs. As it is now, a doctor can not work for less. He has huge loans to
pay off after getting his MD. In the 70's there was a drive to produce
more doctors and the government paid a lot of the costs. So when the
doctor graduated, he was not saddled with piles of debt.


We've gone through this a couple of times.... sigh... you have two
choices... regulation or competition. The bill creates more competition and
introduces more regulation.

Not sure what you're ranting about wrt to doctors. They certainly can and do
work for "less" depending on how they have to or don't have to deal with
ins. companies. Are you going to blame the med schools for high costs now?


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"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
...
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...

"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
...
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
"We found that regardless of a physician's political affiliation, the
respondents attributed the practice of defensive medicine to excessive
waste in the health care system," said Rick Jackson, chairman and CEO
of Jackson Healthcare, in a statement."

~~Sorry - no can do. Gotta keep the trial lawyers busy and rich.~~

The survey found that 62 percent of physicians disagreed with the
American Medical Association's (AMA) stance on health care reform. Of
those, 46 percent said they "strongly disagree" with the AMA's stance.

http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlan...1.html?ana=fox

Heh - what a shock.


Nothing wrong with tort reform. But, that's not going to solve the
healthcare cost issue. I know this troubles you, but it's not as simple
as that.

--
Nom=de=Plume


Where is the Healthcare bill going to solve the cost issue? Maybe the
path of the money to the doctor may change but there is nothing lowering
costs. As it is now, a doctor can not work for less. He has huge loans
to pay off after getting his MD. In the 70's there was a drive to
produce more doctors and the government paid a lot of the costs. So when
the doctor graduated, he was not saddled with piles of debt.


We've gone through this a couple of times.... sigh... you have two
choices... regulation or competition. The bill creates more competition
and introduces more regulation.

Not sure what you're ranting about wrt to doctors. They certainly can and
do work for "less" depending on how they have to or don't have to deal
with ins. companies. Are you going to blame the med schools for high costs
now?


--
Nom=de=Plume


Show me the increased competition. The doctor has to pay for his education.

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...

"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
...
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
m...

"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
...
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
"We found that regardless of a physician's political affiliation, the
respondents attributed the practice of defensive medicine to excessive
waste in the health care system," said Rick Jackson, chairman and CEO
of Jackson Healthcare, in a statement."

~~Sorry - no can do. Gotta keep the trial lawyers busy and rich.~~

The survey found that 62 percent of physicians disagreed with the
American Medical Association's (AMA) stance on health care reform. Of
those, 46 percent said they "strongly disagree" with the AMA's stance.

http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlan...1.html?ana=fox

Heh - what a shock.


Nothing wrong with tort reform. But, that's not going to solve the
healthcare cost issue. I know this troubles you, but it's not as simple
as that.

--
Nom=de=Plume


Where is the Healthcare bill going to solve the cost issue? Maybe the
path of the money to the doctor may change but there is nothing lowering
costs. As it is now, a doctor can not work for less. He has huge loans
to pay off after getting his MD. In the 70's there was a drive to
produce more doctors and the government paid a lot of the costs. So
when the doctor graduated, he was not saddled with piles of debt.


We've gone through this a couple of times.... sigh... you have two
choices... regulation or competition. The bill creates more competition
and introduces more regulation.

Not sure what you're ranting about wrt to doctors. They certainly can and
do work for "less" depending on how they have to or don't have to deal
with ins. companies. Are you going to blame the med schools for high
costs now?


--
Nom=de=Plume


Show me the increased competition. The doctor has to pay for his
education.

Two companies competing.. one has lots of overhead the other doesn't. If the
former wants to compete with the latter, it must lower its costs or offer
additional services (value added services).

Doctors work for money. Some work for places like Kaiser for (I'm assuming)
lower wages than they might get in private practice. (I know one who makes
about the same as he did in private practice, but let's just assume that's
the case.)

Questions? (Or, refer to an econ book....)

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