On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:33:26 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:38:09 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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Nobody has said, or even said they will limit, what the insurance
companies can charge for all of these new liabilities. The real
showdown will come when our insurance options and prices show up this
fall. The CEO of Caterpillar is estimating this will cost his company
$100 million in additional health care insurance costs. That will get
passed on to the employees, one way or another..

Insurance companies are currently raising prices... did you miss that?
It's
a fix that's coming.

I doubt it. His costs are skyrocketting now. Every reputable economist,
not
to mention the CBO, predicts savings.


We don't have to wait long to see. What do you think "open season"
will look like this year?


Where is all of the extra medical capacity going to come from to deal
with 31 million new patients?
Supply and demand says the cost of providing care will go up.

I guess they don't make doctors anymore. How sad. Hospitals seem to think
they'll be fine.

Yup, if they start today, they will have a whole new batch of doctors
in 2018.

So, there's no one in the medical schools right now? I don't see any stats
that show there will be a shortage.

I have already said, real help would come if they let a lot of the
routine stuff be done by paramedics and techs. If you are on a Navy
ship or out in the field with the Army, 99% of all of your medical;
treatment will be by an enlisted corpsman or medic. Bring these people
home from these stupid foreign adventures and set them up in store
front clinics, backed up by a doctor somewhere for things they can't
handle.

Lots of things will help. Maybe this is one of them. Feel free to email
with your suggestion.

There are shortages on GP doctors, since specialization pays
significantly more, the number of doctors becoming GPs is less and
less.

Sort of like school teachers who are underpaid to teach 1st grade and
should be paid equivalent to tenure professors based on the service
they provide.

It's not an equitable system.