Comments on: Who Should Control Your Health Care? http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: World Schools Debating http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-1486206 World Schools Debating Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:02:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-1486206 I've learn several excellent stuff here. Definitely price bookmarking for revisiting. I wonder how much effort you place to make such a magnificent informative site. I’ve learn several excellent stuff here. Definitely price bookmarking for revisiting. I wonder how much effort you place to make such a magnificent informative site.

]]> By: Well Educated Cad http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-247682 Well Educated Cad Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:03:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-247682 Unfortunately, you CAN force intelligent, well educated people to play by bureaucratic rules an America. Our officials have already grumbled about us Texas doctors not accepting Medicaid for the farce it is- and have mentioned making us accept medicaid or they will not issue us a license ! The system was broken mostly by the government- and now people want the government to take it over and "fix it". Sound familiar ? Unfortunately, you CAN force intelligent, well educated people to play by bureaucratic rules an America. Our officials have already grumbled about us Texas doctors not accepting Medicaid for the farce it is- and have mentioned making us accept medicaid or they will not issue us a license !
The system was broken mostly by the government- and now people want the government to take it over and “fix it”. Sound familiar ?

]]> By: Steve Levine http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-247369 Steve Levine Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:50:38 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-247369 With coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal recently, the Texas Medical Association's survey of primary care physicians' reluctance to take new Medicare patients is getting lots of play. Certainly the economic and administrative hassle factors are there and make a big impact on physicians trying to keep open their practice. What has been omitted, though, is the other major finding from our survey: Texas physicians will not refuse their current Medicare patients. Nearly 70 percent say that is something they will not do. Fewer than five percent say that is something they have done or will do. As a family medicine specialist from Dallas said in response to our survey: "I will continue to provide care to my existing Medicare patients as a courtesy to them, but I will soon be closing my panel to new Medicare patients, because not doing so will jeopardize my ability to provide care to everyone else." Steve Levine VP, Communication Texas Medical Association With coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal recently, the Texas Medical Association’s survey of primary care physicians’ reluctance to take new Medicare patients is getting lots of play. Certainly the economic and administrative hassle factors are there and make a big impact on physicians trying to keep open their practice.

What has been omitted, though, is the other major finding from our survey: Texas physicians will not refuse their current Medicare patients. Nearly 70 percent say that is something they will not do. Fewer than five percent say that is something they have done or will do.

As a family medicine specialist from Dallas said in response to our survey: “I will continue to provide care to my existing Medicare patients as a courtesy to them, but I will soon be closing my panel to new Medicare patients, because not doing so will jeopardize my ability to provide care to everyone else.”

Steve Levine
VP, Communication
Texas Medical Association

]]> By: vivo http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-247197 vivo Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:09:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-247197 Should there be a law that requires insurance and gov't bureaucrats (Medicare, etc.) to have a MEDICAL degree? Should there be a law that requires insurance companies dealing with medical care to be non-profit organizations? It's all up to you, legislators! Should there be a law that requires insurance and gov’t bureaucrats (Medicare, etc.) to have a MEDICAL degree?

Should there be a law that requires insurance companies dealing with medical care to be non-profit organizations?

It’s all up to you, legislators!

]]> By: venividivici http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-246431 venividivici Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:31:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-246431 <i>47. The Shadow: Well educated cad: ” I know several doctors who already quit and went to Law School.” That is a real laugh! I wonder how they feel now that there are so few jobs for lawyers and their compensation is coming down so fast. I talk to doctors all the time in my job and although they are generally conservative, they complain mostly about the restrictions that the bureaucrats in the insurance industry impose on them. The government is already heavily involved in medicine via medicare and only a tiny fraction opt out of the medicare system.</i> Compensation in every field is either flat or declining, due to the oversupply of labor relative to demand. In addition, as mentioned above, the time required to become a lawyer is far less than the time required to become a doctor, so people at the outset of their careers will decide accordingly, when the time-cost ratio is something they consider. Of course, much of a person's career decision is self-selection into a field where one has talents, but when social and economic pressures push one in a direction where, although one may not favor that career, it is the easier to enter and "make a living" from, I have no doubt it will push some on the margin into law over medicine. The irony of the left, and it is the irony of all parasitic life forms, is that by making parasitism pay so well, it'll destroy its capitalist host. It won't even be a matter of people "going Galt". It'll be that everyone of a certain level of intelligence will want to work for the government because that will be the only place where you'll be safe from the government, just like every kid in a gang-infested neighborhood, no matter how good a kid he is, wants to be in the gang. Hopefully, this will never happen, but if it does hopefully I'll be out of the country or dead before then, because it will be too stupid for words. You'll fit right in, though, Shadow. As far as your point about a "tiny fraction" opting out of Medicare, statistics tell a different story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993462778328019.html?mod=googlenews_wsj <i>Here's something that has gotten lost in the drive to institute universal health insurance: Health insurance doesn't automatically lead to health care. And with more and more doctors dropping out of one insurance plan or another, especially government plans, there is no guarantee that you will be able to see a physician no matter what coverage you have. Consider that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported in 2008 that 28% of Medicare beneficiaries looking for a primary care physician had trouble finding one, up from 24% the year before. The reasons are clear: A 2008 survey by the Texas Medical Association, for example, found that only 38% of primary-care doctors in Texas took new Medicare patients. The statistics are similar in New York state, where I practice medicine. More and more of my fellow doctors are turning away Medicare patients because of the diminished reimbursements and the growing delay in payments. One of the top mammographers in New York City works in my office building, but she no longer accepts Medicare and charges patients more than $300 cash for each procedure. The problem is even worse with Medicaid. A 2005 Community Tracking Physician survey showed that only 50% of physicians accept this insurance.</i> You cannot force intelligent, well-educated people to play by bureaucratic rules in America. We will always vote with our feet against you. 47. The Shadow:

Well educated cad:

” I know several doctors who already quit and went to Law School.” That is a real laugh! I wonder how they feel now that there are so few jobs for lawyers and their compensation is coming down so fast. I talk to doctors all the time in my job and although they are generally conservative, they complain mostly about the restrictions that the bureaucrats in the insurance industry impose on them. The government is already heavily involved in medicine via medicare and only a tiny fraction opt out of the medicare system.

Compensation in every field is either flat or declining, due to the oversupply of labor relative to demand. In addition, as mentioned above, the time required to become a lawyer is far less than the time required to become a doctor, so people at the outset of their careers will decide accordingly, when the time-cost ratio is something they consider. Of course, much of a person’s career decision is self-selection into a field where one has talents, but when social and economic pressures push one in a direction where, although one may not favor that career, it is the easier to enter and “make a living” from, I have no doubt it will push some on the margin into law over medicine. The irony of the left, and it is the irony of all parasitic life forms, is that by making parasitism pay so well, it’ll destroy its capitalist host. It won’t even be a matter of people “going Galt”. It’ll be that everyone of a certain level of intelligence will want to work for the government because that will be the only place where you’ll be safe from the government, just like every kid in a gang-infested neighborhood, no matter how good a kid he is, wants to be in the gang. Hopefully, this will never happen, but if it does hopefully I’ll be out of the country or dead before then, because it will be too stupid for words. You’ll fit right in, though, Shadow.

As far as your point about a “tiny fraction” opting out of Medicare, statistics tell a different story:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993462778328019.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Here’s something that has gotten lost in the drive to institute universal health insurance: Health insurance doesn’t automatically lead to health care. And with more and more doctors dropping out of one insurance plan or another, especially government plans, there is no guarantee that you will be able to see a physician no matter what coverage you have.

Consider that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported in 2008 that 28% of Medicare beneficiaries looking for a primary care physician had trouble finding one, up from 24% the year before. The reasons are clear: A 2008 survey by the Texas Medical Association, for example, found that only 38% of primary-care doctors in Texas took new Medicare patients. The statistics are similar in New York state, where I practice medicine.

More and more of my fellow doctors are turning away Medicare patients because of the diminished reimbursements and the growing delay in payments. One of the top mammographers in New York City works in my office building, but she no longer accepts Medicare and charges patients more than $300 cash for each procedure.

The problem is even worse with Medicaid. A 2005 Community Tracking Physician survey showed that only 50% of physicians accept this insurance.

You cannot force intelligent, well-educated people to play by bureaucratic rules in America. We will always vote with our feet against you.

]]> By: Cybergeezer http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-246330 Cybergeezer Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:21:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-246330 I'm black; So to answer the question, Obama should control my health care. I’m black; So to answer the question, Obama should control my health care.

]]> By: JED http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-246035 JED Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:27:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-246035 "Who should control your health care?" The answer to whom you are most responsible is you! You should control your health care, and be responsible for yourself. That is not the doctor, not the insurance company, and not the big government. The entire health care question is far from over, expecially under the light of massive spending, risk, and continous programs. Freedom is also at issue and risk. Granted that life is not fair and bad things happen to good people, imagine what would happen to the entire health care cost if self-inflicted injuries were reduced. Let us include the addictions under that seemingly unnecessary plan. There would go the bankrupcies every 30 seconds as so advertised. The supply/demand of medical costs would be greatly shifted. Alas no such magic wand exists, but the personal risks do go down with personal responsibility and not government or corporation responsibility. “Who should control your health care?” The answer to whom you are most responsible is you! You should control your health care, and be responsible for yourself. That is not the doctor, not the insurance company, and not the big government.
The entire health care question is far from over, expecially under the light of massive spending, risk, and continous programs. Freedom is also at issue and risk.
Granted that life is not fair and bad things happen to good people, imagine what would happen to the entire health care cost if self-inflicted injuries were reduced. Let us include the addictions under that seemingly unnecessary plan. There would go the bankrupcies every 30 seconds as so advertised. The supply/demand of medical costs would be greatly shifted. Alas no such magic wand exists, but the personal risks do go down with personal responsibility and not government or corporation responsibility.

]]> By: The Shadow http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-245863 The Shadow Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-245863 Well educated cad: " I know several doctors who already quit and went to Law School." That is a real laugh! I wonder how they feel now that there are so few jobs for lawyers and their compensation is coming down so fast. I talk to doctors all the time in my job and although they are generally conservative, they complain mostly about the restrictions that the bureaucrats in the insurance industry impose on them. The government is already heavily involved in medicine via medicare and only a tiny fraction opt out of the medicare system. Well educated cad:

” I know several doctors who already quit and went to Law School.” That is a real laugh! I wonder how they feel now that there are so few jobs for lawyers and their compensation is coming down so fast. I talk to doctors all the time in my job and although they are generally conservative, they complain mostly about the restrictions that the bureaucrats in the insurance industry impose on them. The government is already heavily involved in medicine via medicare and only a tiny fraction opt out of the medicare system.

]]> By: Delia http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-245770 Delia Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-245770 45. californiataxslave, You got that right, my friend! "Solent Green" ain't just a movie...it's an "ensure shake"... Dun dun DUNNNNNN! :lol: 45. californiataxslave,

You got that right, my friend! “Solent Green” ain’t just a movie…it’s an “ensure shake”… Dun dun DUNNNNNN! :lol:

]]> By: californiataxslave http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-should-have-control-over-your-health-care/#comment-245732 californiataxslave Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:14:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=53452#comment-245732 The real purpose behind universal health care: slowly kill off the older folks to save money on social security obligations! The real purpose behind universal health care: slowly kill off the older folks to save money on social security obligations!

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