"Gene" wrote in message ...

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:52:09 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:30:42 -0400, John H
wrote:

A good explanation. This was passed on to my wife by her doctor.


At least it came from a disinterested third party! Or not........

This is crazy stuff.
A doctor taking Tri-Care and probably Medicare patients passing out
an anti-government health care screed.
"Socialists against Socialism Unite!"

I really think that is the point.... the only substantive objection I
have heard from the "medical" side is amplified in this statement: "Is
the Congressional Budget Office to be believed?"

It is all about money and the healthcare industry is afraid they will
receive a lesser portion of federal money than they now receive. They
don't mind being socialists as long as they are WELL PAID
socialists...

Personally, I'd love to put ALL of them back to doing house calls....
and frankly, once they put money ahead of humanity (which happened
about the same day housecalls stopped), they lost my sympathy.

Another thing happened, too! One of those unintended consequences...
when doctors started making mega-bucks, they made themselves
attractive targets for civil litigation.... though I don't care much
for lawyers, I don't have any sympathy for a group of folks that have
gleefully lined their pockets with gold because folks with loved ones
that are sick and in pain don't feel like they have any humane
options.






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Reply:
Part of the reason they need lots of bucks, is they have lots of money
invested in the MD. When I looked at doing my Masters at University of
Santa Clara, I was looking at $50-60K . and that was 15 years ago at least.
How many $$$$ hundreds of thousands of dollars has that doctor had to lay
out for his education? and then 8-9 years of no income while getting that
education. Just paying back the student loans and paying to set up an
office of high tech equipment is close to a megabuck I estimate.