I've heard complaints from some doctors that reductions for certain Medicare reimbursements are unfair. One of these was from a cardiac surgeon who said he makes more than the average for his profession in his area (which was said to be 400K per year).
I know a lot of doctors have a hard time making ends meet: after 8-12 years of school and residency you wind up with a lot of debt and you have to make a lot of money to pay off all those student loans. Startup costs for offices and equipment can be steep, and you have to hire a lot of employees to run your office, in part due to the crazy paperwork hoops you have to jump through dealing with all the different insurance companies.
But seriously, half a million bucks a year is nothing to complain about. If you can't make it on that, something's obviously wrong.
We should be making it easier for people to become doctors. Make it easier for people to go to medical school without getting neck-deep into debt. In fact, we should be making it easier for everyone to get a college education (as long as they make the grade -- I don't want a bunch of incompetent doctors out there).
If doctors are overburdened by student loans, then we should fix the student loan problem, rather than making doctors have a mercenary attitude about treating their patients.
If dealing with insurance companies is too painful for doctors, we should fix the problems that insurance companies are causing them. Everyone complains about Medicare, but I've seen insurance companies reject the same claim two and three times, and then just pay the claim.
Insurance companies intentionally inundate doctors and patients with excess paperwork and rejections to get them to cave.
But guys like this should be engaging and trying to fix the problems, rather than putting his political views ahead of his patients' health.
It'd be nice if the "healthcare reform" had some actual reform in it, instead of being just "a giant BJ to the insurance industry"... and of course the drug companies and the trial lawyers...
Is is true the obama flew over the flooding in rhode island at an altitude too high for anyone to see while on his way to 2 fundraisers in maine? is it true his fema director has been in orlando all week? Nice priorities.
Did I really hear this morning that Emanuel Cleaver is now backing off of his claims of racial heckling outside the capital? Brietbart offered anyone $100k for proof and nobody offered up any. You going to admit any wrongdoing markadelphia or are you going to let that be another example of YOU reading something and *poof* - accepting it as fact simply because it fits your narrative.
And now Micheal Steele is playing the race card with his recent comments on good morning America.
Appearing on "Good Morning America" Monday, Steele was asked whether he was being criticized unfairly over expenditures on items such as private jet travel, high-end hotels, and bondage-themed nightclubs, because of his race.
"The honest answer is, 'Yes,'" he said. "Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do. It's a different role for me to play and others to play and that's just the reality of it. But you just take that as a part of the nature of it."
Take a good look at that video. The man was not hocking a loogie or deliberately spitting. He was yelling at the top of his voice, and sometimes this means that saliva is involved. (The human body takes care of itself, including not letting the mouth dry out.) Mr. Cleaver was the unfortunate recipient of an accidental spraying.
As for Michael Steele, I liked him when I first heard about him. But the more I've learned, the less I've liked him. Playing the race card like that is one of the reasons he has lost my respect.
Do you suppose he's pissed at being turned into a slave? (See here and here) He's not actively turning away patients (Yet. The pattern of similar socialized medicine schemes is that many doctors will be forced to stop practicing medicine, in which case he will have to turn away all patients.), so I say "Good for him!"
And Marxy, I have words for you too. You claim that paying a mortgage is "slavery", yet you support literally enslaving those in the medical field. But there aren't words strong enough for what I think of that. But here's a good start:
"Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers." (Luke 11:46 HCSB)
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are fearless at mixing beer, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against His people. He raised His hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like garbage in the streets. In all this, His anger is not removed, and His hand is still raised to strike.
He raises a signal flag for the distant nations and whistles for them from the ends of the earth. Look—how quickly and swiftly they come! None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap broken. Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows strung. Their horses’ hooves are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it. On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds." (Isaiah 5:20–30 HCSB)
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and I fully support him in his CHOICE.
I've heard complaints from some doctors that reductions for certain Medicare reimbursements are unfair. One of these was from a cardiac surgeon who said he makes more than the average for his profession in his area (which was said to be 400K per year).
I know a lot of doctors have a hard time making ends meet: after 8-12 years of school and residency you wind up with a lot of debt and you have to make a lot of money to pay off all those student loans. Startup costs for offices and equipment can be steep, and you have to hire a lot of employees to run your office, in part due to the crazy paperwork hoops you have to jump through dealing with all the different insurance companies.
But seriously, half a million bucks a year is nothing to complain about. If you can't make it on that, something's obviously wrong.
We should be making it easier for people to become doctors. Make it easier for people to go to medical school without getting neck-deep into debt. In fact, we should be making it easier for everyone to get a college education (as long as they make the grade -- I don't want a bunch of incompetent doctors out there).
If doctors are overburdened by student loans, then we should fix the student loan problem, rather than making doctors have a mercenary attitude about treating their patients.
If dealing with insurance companies is too painful for doctors, we should fix the problems that insurance companies are causing them. Everyone complains about Medicare, but I've seen insurance companies reject the same claim two and three times, and then just pay the claim.
Insurance companies intentionally inundate doctors and patients with excess paperwork and rejections to get them to cave.
But guys like this should be engaging and trying to fix the problems, rather than putting his political views ahead of his patients' health.
It'd be nice if the "healthcare reform" had some actual reform in it, instead of being just "a giant BJ to the insurance industry"... and of course the drug companies and the trial lawyers...
....rather than putting his political views ahead of his patients' health.
If you feel that way, why are you cheering when Democrat politicians put their political views ahead of his patients' health?
Is is true the obama flew over the flooding in rhode island at an altitude too high for anyone to see while on his way to 2 fundraisers in maine? is it true his fema director has been in orlando all week? Nice priorities.
Oh, and STILL no commentary on what this great health care reform actually IS. Just that to oppose it is unconscionable.
Keep up the great work there M! You'll be a Rovian juggernaut any day now.
Did I really hear this morning that Emanuel Cleaver is now backing off of his claims of racial heckling outside the capital? Brietbart offered anyone $100k for proof and nobody offered up any. You going to admit any wrongdoing markadelphia or are you going to let that be another example of YOU reading something and *poof* - accepting it as fact simply because it fits your narrative.
Here is a video of Cleaver being spit on...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/28/congressman-spit-on-by-te_n_516300.html
And where did you "hear" that Cleaver is backing off claims of racial heckling?
And now Micheal Steele is playing the race card with his recent comments on good morning America.
Appearing on "Good Morning America" Monday, Steele was asked whether he was being criticized unfairly over expenditures on items such as private jet travel, high-end hotels, and bondage-themed nightclubs, because of his race.
"The honest answer is, 'Yes,'" he said. "Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do. It's a different role for me to play and others to play and that's just the reality of it. But you just take that as a part of the nature of it."
shane,
Take a good look at that video. The man was not hocking a loogie or deliberately spitting. He was yelling at the top of his voice, and sometimes this means that saliva is involved. (The human body takes care of itself, including not letting the mouth dry out.) Mr. Cleaver was the unfortunate recipient of an accidental spraying.
And yes, he is backing off the claim.
As for Michael Steele, I liked him when I first heard about him. But the more I've learned, the less I've liked him. Playing the race card like that is one of the reasons he has lost my respect.
As for the doctor's sign:
Do you suppose he's pissed at being turned into a slave? (See here and here) He's not actively turning away patients (Yet. The pattern of similar socialized medicine schemes is that many doctors will be forced to stop practicing medicine, in which case he will have to turn away all patients.), so I say "Good for him!"
And Marxy, I have words for you too. You claim that paying a mortgage is "slavery", yet you support literally enslaving those in the medical field. But there aren't words strong enough for what I think of that. But here's a good start:
"Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers."
(Luke 11:46 HCSB)
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion
and clever in their own sight.
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are fearless at mixing beer,
who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of justice.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts,
and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against His people.
He raised His hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
He raises a signal flag for the distant nations
and whistles for them from the ends of the earth.
Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!
None of them grows weary or stumbles;
no one slumbers or sleeps.
No belt is loose and no sandal strap broken.
Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows strung.
Their horses’ hooves are like flint;
their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
Their roaring is like a lion’s;
they roar like young lions;
they growl and seize their prey and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.
On that day they will roar over it,
like the roaring of the sea.
When one looks at the land,
there will be darkness and distress;
light will be obscured by clouds."
(Isaiah 5:20–30 HCSB)
Now the Bible is in play. Fun times about to begin! And Mark's idea of Reagan and Jesus today rings ever more true.
Ah, Herr Funnheiser, ever ready to snark, never able to speak intelligently.
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