@47. goy:
Outside of Dr. Hsieh and a few like minded in his field, I’m willing to bet a week’s salary that the political contribution behavior of the majority of AMA members and hospital administrators – as well as that of most comprehensive insurance company executives – follows the pattern I recently found among pharmaceutical company executives. That is, they are completely supportive of so-called “universal” health care… at least as measured by their overwhelming support of BHO’s blatantly socialist policies over McCain’s slightly-less-socialist ones.
One wonders why.
Medical professionals support universal coverage because they see daily the carnage caused by a health care system that fails to cover a large portion of the population, and leaves the poor and those with chronic illness unable to afford needed care. Universal health care is the answer to our health care problems. Your assertion that it won’t work is truly ignorant, as it works much better than our current system in all other industrialized nations, providing equivalent or superior care for less than half the cost. Our money is wasted on administration and advertising which does nothing for our health.
Health care costs are out of control, but much of the cost is currently paying the salaries of insurance executives – Medicare has administration costs an order of magnitude lower than private insurance. Medical bankruptcy is now a part of American life – something unheard of in other advanced nations. Commodity economics is the worst possible solution one could propose to fixing this system, as it addresses none of the problems, and would leave millions with no medical care at all.
Doctors want the best care for their fellow citizens – that’s why they support universal health coverage.
Peace.
DS
