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2009-10-22 Home Front: Politix
'Doc fix' collapses, Reid tells colleagues AMA led him astray
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Posted by Fred 2009-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Going to the Post Office for medical care? It will probably be more like going to Cuba or Haiti for medical care.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-22 09:50||   2009-10-22 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I can see it now. You wonder into the local post office to get a few stamps and a hip replacement. Sounds delightful!
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-10-22 10:10||   2009-10-22 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 So the most powerful man in the US Senate is blaming the Doctors for his own ineffectual leadership? Is he for real?
Posted by Black Bart Ebberens7700 2009-10-22 11:18||   2009-10-22 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4  This brouhahahaha is just to cover up the critical need to slash Medicare payments/benefits to pay for Obamacare. Whether Medicare payments are cut to doctors, Medicare benefits themselves slashed, or Medicare premiums jacked up is just a matter of semantics. Why current Medicare beneficiaries and those who will turn 65 within 10 years haven't already marched on Washington is beyond my poor power to understand.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-22 13:28||   2009-10-22 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5  And, for those who just tuned in, Medicare, the Indian Health Service, and VA health benefits are all national health care systems.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-22 13:30||   2009-10-22 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 And many doctors won't take Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are too low.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia  2009-10-22 18:44||   2009-10-22 18:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Very soon Harry Reid will have someone else to bitch about: Nevada's voters. We can't stand the guy.
Posted by Secret Master 2009-10-22 19:29||   2009-10-22 19:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The main problem with public healthcare is that it is political untenable for it to be clearly inferior to private healthcare.

There are 2 ways out of this. One is the UK system where everyone is forced to use public healthcare, or the Australian system where people over certain income levels are forced to pay for private healthcare, which is regulated to be of the same or similar standard to public healthcare, in effect this is a special healthcare tax on everyone over a median income.
Posted by phil_b 2009-10-22 19:37||   2009-10-22 19:37|| Front Page Top

#9 "One is the UK system where everyone is forced to use public healthcare"

Except that the UK public health service has secretly (until now) taken taxpayers' money to buy private health care for their people because the waiting lines for public health are too long.

Our present gummint is different. They don't even hide the fact they intend to keep their gold-plated health care paid for by the peons taxpayers while forcing said taxpayers to settle for crumbs. I'm sure they'll approve the same for their pet doctors.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-10-22 21:18||   2009-10-22 21:18|| Front Page Top

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