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73% of Doctors Support Public Healthcare Option

Facial_King

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Who knew that nearly three-fourths of American doctors are not actually "real Americans" but socialist, Stalinist, Communist, Kenyan terrorist thugs?

:dunno:;)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112839232&ft=1&f=1001

10% of them don't even want there to BE a private option! Who will help me to have them immediately deported to N. Korea??!!! :mad:

:wave2:
 

Spleen

Banned?
I can't figure out what all the fuss is about.

More desperate drama from the Yank-Camp? :dunno:

Can someone please explain to me the problem here? Oh wait wait, let me guess... I won't understand because I'm not American?
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Ask any doctor who he'd rather deal with as far as a claim goes....Medicare or a private insurer. Medicare wins hands down.

There was a time period after 9-11 when I lost my job and was out of work for 6 months. I had no health insurance. I went to talk to my doctor's office manager about what an office visit would cost me and she replied that it was $99. I asked her once again, reminding her that I did not have any insurance and that I would be paying cash. She immediately waved her hand dismissively and said that the cash price was $49....half price because of no need to hassle with insurers for money.

If I was a doctor, I'd definitely want the public option.
 
You would think any person who decides to peruse the medical profession would want to focus solely on what they were trained to do, which is treating patients. Not to have to deal with insurance companies; with all the financial and bureaucratic baggage that comes with them.

So this isn't really surprising.
 

Shindekudasai

If I had a my Freeones account, I would have just gotten 25 points!
Isn't this nice. Thread number...I don't know... 50 (?) about the healthcare/health reform in the US... and still most of the world doesn't get what all the fuss is about. We have a healthcare system with mandatory health insurance and look at us: we're still here! In fact, we're doing great with one of the highest (if not the highest next to Japan) medical standards in the world.
No bankcrupt hospitals or doctors (in fact, in Germany hardly any hospital ever goes bankcrupt as opposed to the US), no patients dying in waiting rooms because they have no insurance, and we don't have Hitler and Marx toasting to the end of freedom either. Once again, a lot of Americans are being ridiculous about something that would actually be good, just because it is considered Un-American by some. I don't get it. Don't you want a functioning health care system? Don't you want everyone in your country to be able to go to the dentist regularly? Or to get their flu shots? Or not having to worry about what happens to them in case of an emergency because they have no insurance?
I think it's a confession of failure for a country that considers itself amongst the wealthiest in the world, that a large part of their population can't even afford to get sick, because the richest 5% don't want to pay their part of a public healthcare system. Sounds more like oligarchy to me, not democracy.

We just recently had a huge "health reform" ourselves and some things have become more like in the US now. And guess what: most people (including doctors of all sorts) think that it is a step backwards and generally bad for patient care. Hmmm... makes you think doesn't it?
 

Supafly

Moderator
Staff member
Bronze Member
Guys stop this. At least stop making new threads about Health Care.

If you still want to bring new insight to the table, put it in there.

I want to move on.
 

Facial_King

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
Guys stop this. At least stop making new threads about Health Care.

If you still want to bring new insight to the table, put it in there.

I want to move on.

Aye-aye, Cap'n !!

:confused:

"If you still want to bring new insight to the table, put it in there."

...in where?
:dunno:
 

Facetious

Moderated
Yea right ! That's what doctors go to medical school for to pick up a lowly government salary..... borrowed from china and saudi arabia.:1orglaugh :spin:



NPR :rofl:
 

Facetious

Moderated
Yea right ! That's what everybody goes to medical school for to pick up a lowly government salary..... borrowed from china and saudi arabia.:1orglaugh :spin:

The last thing that doctors want in their way is government deciding how they can or can't treat "their" patients. I'm mean, this is so much folly, but hey, it's either going to make or break this president so they'll try anything to get it passed.



:rofl:
 

Facial_King

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.
99% of homeless people support free housing.

I don't get the analogy, particulary if one agrees with Facetious's comment right above yours (and I'm not saying that you necessarily do - do you?)...
 

Facial_King

I'm too lazy to set a usertitle.

Okay, you gave me:

"Who is for eliminating ALL socialist programs in the U.S.?" thread :rolleyes:

and another thread that I started about Obama's health care speech and reactions to it.

You didn't give me a link to something general, such as "Let's Talk About Health Care in the U.S." or something like that.

So, I'm opting to start this new thread about how doctors feel about the public option. So sue me... :dunno::wave2:

Getting back to the subject, please...
 

bodie54

If FreeOnes was a woman, I'd marry her!
I think it's a confession of failure for a country that considers itself amongst the wealthiest in the world, that a large part of their population can't even afford to get sick, because the richest 5% don't want to pay their part of a public healthcare system.

I'm not sure it's the top 5% that are actually raising such a stink about this. It seems to me it's more an alliance of greedy corporations, the Republican party, and a large proportion of the middle and lower middle class who've been propagandized into a state of gripping, irrational fear.

It's a shame more of them aren't exposed to non agenda driven testimonials such as yours about public health care in other countries, rather than the horror stories vested interests are constantly peddling.
 

bodie54

If FreeOnes was a woman, I'd marry her!
So, I'm opting to start this new thread about how doctors feel about the public option. So sue me... :dunno::wave2:

Getting back to the subject, please...

I agree. If those numbers are anything close to accurate that's a VERY significant consideration in the health care debate, and imo worthy of being highlighted by a self-contained thread.
 

Facetious

Moderated
All of this rabble rousing for universal health care only pops up when the "leaders" of the democratic party cue their electorate to rally for it, otherwise it's quiet... there is no health crisis. :silence:
Then, whenever a Hillary or an Obama play like the pied piper, the sky is falling all over again! :eek: Like a flick of the switch they go off into mass hysteria !



So here's the deal - the democrats have *craftily used the influx of illegal immigration as a mechanism to bankrupt the private health care institutions, we know that these operations have been on the agenda of the democratic party for some time now. We all know the law by now, all hospitals private and public alike may not turn away any patients regardless of a patients' inability to make payment whatsoever - "it's too expensive, how do you expect them to pay" you rebut -
OK, granted there are sleazy insurance opts which make health care exorbitantly more expensive than it should be, I grant you that, maybe handle that issue separately legislatively (?) whatever, but are there other reasons in the mix as to why both medical insurance as well as the physical health care services (hospital and physician(s) fees are as unaffordable as they are .... Could I get a volunteer to explain ?
Does it take rocket science or intellectual honesty to elaborate ? C'mon, it's a no brainer ! How in the hell are private hospitals going to make ends meet with literally millions upon millions of non American generated unpaid receivables ? Naturally their prices have to skyrocket, they have to pay their creditors, they have to pay their employees, they have to pay forward the various & sundry insurances etc. ad nauseam ! Do any of you pro obamakare advocates understand how basic business works ?



*This is all you need to know about politics in America today, democratic and republican alike.
 

Philbert

Banned
Of course they aren't accurate...F-K started the thread!
63% are in favor of both the private and public option, 'cause of the uninsured patients they have to treat...and most hate the stupidity of Medicare. Only 10% are in favor of single payer health ins...the whole point of ObamaCare.
And any poll funded by an NPR supporter and taken by NPR is...how to say this...absolutely BULLSHIT!
They most likely asked Docs they knew personally were low level Docs and who need more business, and are know Dem supporters. That's how they do it.
And they were not able to get any kind of definitive support even so...
 

Facetious

Moderated
Another thing - If our current health care crisis is as serious as obama says, than why does it not go into effect until approx 4 years after it's passage, "Dog" forbid it does pass ? !!!

:spin:
 

bodie54

If FreeOnes was a woman, I'd marry her!
Another thing - If our current health care crisis is as serious as obama says, than why does it not go into effect until approx 4 years after it's passage, "Dog" forbid it does pass ? !!!

:spin:

It's a major project. Obama wants to "get it right" and believes four years is a reasonable time frame to do so.

But if you listened to (or read) his speech to Congress, his plan includes a proposal originally made by John McCain during the presidential campaign - to provide immediate, low-cost coverage for people who cannot otherwise afford insurance as a bridge until an insurance exchange is in place in four years.
 
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