I think, although not sure, I understand your motive and intent for using the phrase, "We the people" as the lead-in to your article opposing an action by the Boise City Council.
Does that phrase mean anything you want it to mean? As a nuance, governments are people, cities are people and bureaucrats are people. It is rather silly and without substance that your opponents are proposing to make the substitution.
Are you proposing a government by referendum?
Do you favor an uneducated rather than an educated electorate?
Perhaps you would serve your audience better had you included other words and phrases from the preamble of the Constitution:
form a Union; establish Justice; insure TRANQUILITY; promote WELFARE; secure Liberty
And the experiment of forming a new kind of government was based on the precept of an informed [accurately] electorate.
I think it is more important that we don't punish a student who had no other choice but to attend one of these schools. I think it is safe to say that most of these students can't help that they received a poor education by growing up in these districts. By not allowing them in college because they are "not qualified" is to punish them and not fix and focus on the real problem. The focus should be these school districts who are not meeting educational expectations. I took (and paid for) a remedial class in college for math and now have a successful career that I would not have without my college degree. To eliminate all remedial classes would be unfair and unjust, every young adult deserves a chance at having a life they can be proud of and having a chance at obtaining a college degree.
I believe that if a lawmaker is working full time, in excess of 40 hours per week, he/she should get benefits. Proving it on the other hand would be nearly impossible. As we know politicians have a "conveinient" way with truth. It is true if they want it to be, or at least until someone calls them on it, then it is plausible deniability.
The golden benefits package from taxpayers should stop at all levels of government. The private sector employees should be the gold standard. If the private sector can't afford insurance and retirement for their employees then the public sector should not be giving it away. Government employees salaries are based on NATIONAL averages not local averages. Benefits are based on NATIONAL averages not local standards.
It is time to end PERCI, stop the free ride that the government LEACHES put on the taxpayers, espceially the property owners, and start making their own way in life rather than riding on the backs of working Idahoans.
My only question is why is Gallatin in so many areas? Boise City, Canyon County, Idaho State Judiciary all seem to be dependent on Cecil Andrus, er uh, the Gallatin Group for their propaganda, er uh, Press Releases.
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What’s the point of this article? The Judiciary isn’t breaking any law, they're actually saving money and getting their message across at the same time. On that note, anyone who thinks writing press releases can be done by internal support staff is sorely mistaken. There is a reason why PIO’s and the like are employed by most major entities. I support the efforts of IFF but this seems more like an attack on Gallatin Public Affairs who appears to be doing what any other business in their capacity would be attempting.
I would like to suggest the above person does not know a thing about UR. He can get a concise tutorial at the Canyon County Assessor's webpage. It does take 6th grade competency in math for follow the examples.
UR is a huge taxshift, no voter oversight on debt, and is accountable to nobody for how they spend the property taxes they divert to UR.
All county taxpayers suffer from the abuse of these agencies in Idaho not just the city of Boise taxpayers.
Dear Lame,
Perhaps you need a civics lesson. Urban Renewal is nothing more than a massive tax shift of property tax dollars into the hands of an appointed board having no voter oversight. Second, by legislative fiat these so-called agencies are allowed to violate the Idaho Constitution Article 8 sec.3. "no debt, liabilty or obligations byond one budget cycle without 2/3rd assent of the voter".
Urban Renewal is just another term for taxpayer abuse. They can issue revenue bonds (tax anticpation debt) with no vote of the people. They have wide powers to do as they choose under the guise of removing blight. The shift in taxes to the UR agency forces more and higher propert tax onto city and county residents. No taxes collected by UR goes for schools, police, fire, streets, parks and anything else the UR agency does not wish to spend their loot.
It is a law out of control and needs a legislative fix. Nampa Marketplace is in a Urban Renewal District. Where was the blight. The Idaho Center was built on urban renewal largess and remains an albatross around the necks of all Nampa taxpayers.
CCDC paid Phil Kushlan's membership to the ARID club along with his expenses at the members only venue. Dave Frazier was the one who blew the whistle on this BS.
I suggest you go to the Canyon County Assessor webpage and click on the left side tab "URBAN RENEWAL" and get a quick and easy tutorial on UR.
Your rant sounds like it came from someone with very little knowledge about UR.
Have a nice day and try to get yourself up to speed on the issue of UR.
You are the biggest idiot I have ever read. You and that snail David Fraizer. You two have nothing better to do than attack "big, scary government"? GO LIVE IN THE HOLE FROM WHICH YOU CRAWLED OUT OF! This is total slanted yellow journalism (if you can even call this rag news) at it's worst. Please refrain from pretending to be a reporter. I'm a tax payer and I'd like this to happen and support it fully. Shut the hell up and get a life, Wayne. You couldn't run government if you tried. So quit pretending to know better because you sound like the BIGGEST OUT OF TOUCH idiot who is clearly just trying to stir the pot. You have no credibility, with anyone except for the other small percentage of whackjobs who think they can do better than the educated staff and elected officials (I'm sorry, I understand you do align yourself with several narrow minded, single issue legislators WHO WILL NEVER GET ANYTHING WORTHWHILE accomplished and continue to be divisive while spewing your hate.) I could attack every piece of your uninformed "article" but I don't think I can engage with you on that level, so instead, I'd just like to let you know how I see you as such an idiot and really, truly evil for what you are trying to do. Think hard about what kind of person you are, Wayne. You disgust me.
If I remember correctly, these physicians were gauging the industrial commission to care for workers comp cases and demanding much more than general market prices. They were not staging a protest, but rather organizing a false shortage of coverage to force the commission and Blue Cross to pay outrageous fees. I find it interesting that you try to tie some physicians organizing to drive up their reimbursement rates to the impact of Obamacare since this all started before Obama was even elected.
In the first instance, it was the government that was setting the price for reimbursement of WC care.
In the second instance, it was a private company establishing the reimbursement rate, but it was only about half of the doctors that were dropping the coverage. The others were free to continue to practice at the going Blue Cross rates. Doctors should be free to decide whether or not they think that Blue Cross is adequately reimbursing them for their services, and if not, then they can elect to not work with Blue Cross. At the same time, other doctors are free to accept the lower rate and take the Blue Cross business from those doctors who did not find such work worth their while. If nobody is willing to accept the Blue Cross rate, that would be a sign that the rate was indeed too low, and Blue Cross could decide whether to increase it or not. If, however, some doctors were just trying to squeeze Blue Cross for more money, that creates an opportunity for other doctors to step in and fill the void. Generally, charges of "monopoly" are overblown, even when the licensing barriers to entry necessarily make the medical field a less responsive market.
This does, however, demonstrate the problem with labeling health care as a "right." Once it is deemed to be a right, any failure to provide the care is labeled as a deprivation of the patients' rights. If these were factory workers banding together to demand a higher wage, the administration would be falling all over itself to praise them, not to sue them.
I disagree with your comments regarding the issue of Doctors organizing.
Doctors have as much right to organize, meet, discuss and plan actions as do any other group of like minded people.
Do not union members organize and meet, discuss and plan actions?
The post "Reality in medical land" starts with talk about what "the market will bear," and then conveniently forgets that very little of the health care industry is market-driven at all. For starters, the government controls either directly (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) or indirectly (insurance mandates, heavy regulation of insurers) about 90% of health care spending. Only about 10% of spending is directed by consumers themselves. If consumers were responsible for a greater percentage of the burden of health care costs (perhaps through HSAs, with only catastrophic insurance coverage), then there would be greater incentive to spend more cost-effectively. I would be shocked to find out that the person posting about the costs of their medical care knew those costs before getting the treatment. Who cares, right? Insurance will pick up the bulk of it. People don't shop around for their basic (non-emergency) medical care, because they are not on the hook for most of the bills. As a finite resource, medical care must ultimately be rationed in some way. The big difference is between those who want the government to decide what care patients receive and those who want to decide for themselves. Had you been responsible for paying more of the bill for the pain specialist yourself, you probably would have done more of your homework ahead of time and found a more reliable specialist. In a true market, a person who provides bad service at a high cost will not be in business for long, especially in this age in which information is so easy to distribute and obtain.
Also, for all of the complaining by the pro-government-solution people, they seem to overlook the fact that the structure of our health care system is largely the result of government regulation. For example, the tax treatment of benefits is largely the reason why health insurance is so tied to employment. Insurance mandates at the state level have also driven up insurance costs in many areas, and people are not permitted to buy insurance across state lines. There are plenty of other examples.
It is very common these days for politicians to do everything in their power to prevent market forces from operating, and then blame all of the failures of their policies on "market failures." It is hard to tell if people are dishonest, misinformed, or perhaps a hefty dose of both.
First off, I know its great to say "Government" and stir the folks all up. But it was a private company -Blue Cross Blue Shield - that set the price. Not the government.
The Doctors do not have to work for that wage. This is true. But they dont have the right to organize and form a monopoly either. The issue is that the Doctors organized.
What if all the repair shops got together and decided they werent going to work for less than $300 per hour. The Free Market no longer applies - everyone sets their rate to $300 per hour. That is in essence what the Doctors did.
Its amazing how you can take a Free Market principal people and twist em into non-free market people.
Digging into your pain specialist situation - it sounds like you won't go again. If that's the result of most or all of the specialist's patient visits, why do you suppose people haven't dried up the well for that doctor and dropped his/her fees by market force? I'm not hiding a snippy answer, by the way - I'll be thinking about that question until we figure it out.
In "no-fault" dissolution cases (NWO-fascism), children are seized from their natural guardian without trial, and then the natural guardian's income is plundered, bank accounts seized and credit trashed, all without notice or due process. When men complained, they were fired from their job and arrested for violating orders written in court rooms without their knowledge, but not a word of assistance or help from their neighbor.
Ok Doc, it's your turn.
Ok neighbor, you are next.
I find your comments very interesting, however, highly incorrect. Let’s put it in perspective: “are ortho docs worth more than GP's? hell no if anything less. Are heart specialists more or better trained than a GP?” OK, following your thinking, a private pilot is no better than a commercial airline pilot or a fighter pilot. They all have a certification to fly. What the hell is the difference? You might feel different when you get on that 767 that the Cessna pilot is playing Captain for. Good luck.
The GP is there to handle and identify health problems and treat the majority of injuries and illnesses. If he or she finds signs of a slipped capital femoral epiphysis or signs of unstable angina, he is not educated, trained or willing to jump in, put in screws, bone grafts or stents and does not want to do a three vessel coronary bypass graft. Once again, if you feel that is the case, PLEASE feel free to contact that doctor, give a couple of bucks to the non-trained gas passer that will be guessing how much anesthesia you need while getting cut open and have a good time. I can bet, due to your vision of the perfect medical system, none of these folks you will be dealing with will be able to afford the $125k a year malpractice insurance the specialists have to carry. So, when your kid can’t walk because the GP screwed his femur to his pelvis, or your heart fails to restart after surgery because of that extra two millimeters the scalpel penetrated. . . remember, you were the cause of the problem. Deal with it and don't expect a $10 million "They did me wrong" payout. Specialist obtain years of ADDITIONAL training, have more expertise, and understand specific systems MUCH better than the average GP, no different than the F-16 pilot who STARTED by being a Cessna pilot.
Your comment about working for the government does however give me an understanding of your position. It is your wish to make sure everyone has their share of the pie. Doesn’t matter that they didn’t help plant the seeds, grow the fruit, harvest it, prepare the dough, cook the pie or even set the table; everyone gets the same share. “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.” I believe that is the definition of communism. No thanks! You can have that, too. Enjoy your pie. I added special spices just for you.
Sound like doctors and associated healthcare professionals should drop out of the system entirely, but still practice -- i.e. don't register, don't form a business entity, etc... but become a known, valued, and protected member (i.e. the neighbors and customers won't report you to gov. thugs) of the community to whom one can go for medical help and take only cash, gold/silver, barter as payment for services rendered.
I worked in the health care field for many years and no longer am practicing. When I heard about the new health care bill, I immediately thought of several obstacles. Doctors aren't going to put up with the unrealistic demands. Some will will stop practicing and those choosing to go into medicine will choose another career. Nurses will follow suit. Thinking that there are going to be enough nurses and doctors to absorb 30 million more people is crazy. You thought your wait to see a doctor now is long, the wait will be increased. Those that remain in the medical field will be way overworked. There is no way around rationing either. They will steal from Medicare to cover younger people. Bad, bad idea.
Fact: All government health care plans are “Socialized Medical Care.” One thing is for sure…those hell-bent for statism have not given any thought to basic economic principles. When liberal candidates talk cost controls in health-care plans they mean "price controls." This would limit the number of individuals entering into the health care field. Those that have skills that would produce more money elsewhere, will leave the health market. Meaning the health care providers left, will demand higher wages because the work load will increase. Resulting in very limited (rationed) or substandard care provided in any socialist plan. Liberals loving statism just don’t understand the law of supply and demand~!
At some point you have to look at what the market will bear in costs- examples of this are the $120.00 screw drivers that major defense contracts charge DOD, $500 dollar toilet seats etc...Medical costs have been artificially forced up because of MD greed, insurance industry over charging to show profits to their share holders and justify ridiculous salaries of their CEO's and upper management costs. I work in Health and Government-and you know what we call it as we see it- price fixing is price fixing- are ortho docs worth more than GP's? hell no if anything less. Are heart specialists more or better trained than a GP? No again they may know more about one organ but a hell of alot less about total body systems and interactions. Where you see conspiracy I see an agency working towards a balance and fairness and extending the value of the dollars by getting more services, nothing different than insurance companies do when they contract with a provider.( I deal with the whining of the medical specialists all the time about them being underpaid) So before you go all "here come the commies" like that fool McCarthy from the 50's take the time to talk to the experts, ask questions -explore the reality- EXPLORE BOTH SIDES - believe it or not most folks who work in government health systems management are not there for the salary, but we are there for the betterment of the people we serve. Recently I went to see a pain specialist, I waited in his office 40 minutes for him to show up from the gym, I paid a $30. copay, my insurance was billed $550. and paid #400. he spent 4 minutes with me and offered me no suggestions saying I had to live with the pain. On the other hand my GP charged me $15. billed insurance 65 got paid $50, spent 35 minutes with me and found a solution- in a $100. medical device. Where was the real value? You always talk about socialized medicine like it is a bad thing. The only place it might be bad is on the auto dealers and real estate brokers pocket books - but on the general public it will make for a much better experience.
I think, although not sure, I understand your motive and intent for using the phrase, "We the people" as the lead-in to your article opposing an action by the Boise City Council.
Does that phrase mean anything you want it to mean? As a nuance, governments are people, cities are people and bureaucrats are people. It is rather silly and without substance that your opponents are proposing to make the substitution.
Are you proposing a government by referendum?
Do you favor an uneducated rather than an educated electorate?
Perhaps you would serve your audience better had you included other words and phrases from the preamble of the Constitution:
form a Union; establish Justice; insure TRANQUILITY; promote WELFARE; secure Liberty
And the experiment of forming a new kind of government was based on the precept of an informed [accurately] electorate.
I think it is more important that we don't punish a student who had no other choice but to attend one of these schools. I think it is safe to say that most of these students can't help that they received a poor education by growing up in these districts. By not allowing them in college because they are "not qualified" is to punish them and not fix and focus on the real problem. The focus should be these school districts who are not meeting educational expectations. I took (and paid for) a remedial class in college for math and now have a successful career that I would not have without my college degree. To eliminate all remedial classes would be unfair and unjust, every young adult deserves a chance at having a life they can be proud of and having a chance at obtaining a college degree.
I believe that if a lawmaker is working full time, in excess of 40 hours per week, he/she should get benefits. Proving it on the other hand would be nearly impossible. As we know politicians have a "conveinient" way with truth. It is true if they want it to be, or at least until someone calls them on it, then it is plausible deniability.
The golden benefits package from taxpayers should stop at all levels of government. The private sector employees should be the gold standard. If the private sector can't afford insurance and retirement for their employees then the public sector should not be giving it away. Government employees salaries are based on NATIONAL averages not local averages. Benefits are based on NATIONAL averages not local standards.
It is time to end PERCI, stop the free ride that the government LEACHES put on the taxpayers, espceially the property owners, and start making their own way in life rather than riding on the backs of working Idahoans.
My only question is why is Gallatin in so many areas? Boise City, Canyon County, Idaho State Judiciary all seem to be dependent on Cecil Andrus, er uh, the Gallatin Group for their propaganda, er uh, Press Releases.
Hey there, I'm having problems reading your site in Avant (the font size it way too small). I've tried raising the font size using the style menu but that didn't really help much. Do you have any advice on what I can do? (Oh ya, I'm on Windows Vista) - how to lose weight in 5 days
What’s the point of this article? The Judiciary isn’t breaking any law, they're actually saving money and getting their message across at the same time. On that note, anyone who thinks writing press releases can be done by internal support staff is sorely mistaken. There is a reason why PIO’s and the like are employed by most major entities. I support the efforts of IFF but this seems more like an attack on Gallatin Public Affairs who appears to be doing what any other business in their capacity would be attempting.
I would like to suggest the above person does not know a thing about UR. He can get a concise tutorial at the Canyon County Assessor's webpage. It does take 6th grade competency in math for follow the examples.
UR is a huge taxshift, no voter oversight on debt, and is accountable to nobody for how they spend the property taxes they divert to UR.
All county taxpayers suffer from the abuse of these agencies in Idaho not just the city of Boise taxpayers.
Dear Lame,
Perhaps you need a civics lesson. Urban Renewal is nothing more than a massive tax shift of property tax dollars into the hands of an appointed board having no voter oversight. Second, by legislative fiat these so-called agencies are allowed to violate the Idaho Constitution Article 8 sec.3. "no debt, liabilty or obligations byond one budget cycle without 2/3rd assent of the voter".
Urban Renewal is just another term for taxpayer abuse. They can issue revenue bonds (tax anticpation debt) with no vote of the people. They have wide powers to do as they choose under the guise of removing blight. The shift in taxes to the UR agency forces more and higher propert tax onto city and county residents. No taxes collected by UR goes for schools, police, fire, streets, parks and anything else the UR agency does not wish to spend their loot.
It is a law out of control and needs a legislative fix. Nampa Marketplace is in a Urban Renewal District. Where was the blight. The Idaho Center was built on urban renewal largess and remains an albatross around the necks of all Nampa taxpayers.
CCDC paid Phil Kushlan's membership to the ARID club along with his expenses at the members only venue. Dave Frazier was the one who blew the whistle on this BS.
I suggest you go to the Canyon County Assessor webpage and click on the left side tab "URBAN RENEWAL" and get a quick and easy tutorial on UR.
Your rant sounds like it came from someone with very little knowledge about UR.
Have a nice day and try to get yourself up to speed on the issue of UR.
You are the biggest idiot I have ever read. You and that snail David Fraizer. You two have nothing better to do than attack "big, scary government"? GO LIVE IN THE HOLE FROM WHICH YOU CRAWLED OUT OF! This is total slanted yellow journalism (if you can even call this rag news) at it's worst. Please refrain from pretending to be a reporter. I'm a tax payer and I'd like this to happen and support it fully. Shut the hell up and get a life, Wayne. You couldn't run government if you tried. So quit pretending to know better because you sound like the BIGGEST OUT OF TOUCH idiot who is clearly just trying to stir the pot. You have no credibility, with anyone except for the other small percentage of whackjobs who think they can do better than the educated staff and elected officials (I'm sorry, I understand you do align yourself with several narrow minded, single issue legislators WHO WILL NEVER GET ANYTHING WORTHWHILE accomplished and continue to be divisive while spewing your hate.) I could attack every piece of your uninformed "article" but I don't think I can engage with you on that level, so instead, I'd just like to let you know how I see you as such an idiot and really, truly evil for what you are trying to do. Think hard about what kind of person you are, Wayne. You disgust me.
If I remember correctly, these physicians were gauging the industrial commission to care for workers comp cases and demanding much more than general market prices. They were not staging a protest, but rather organizing a false shortage of coverage to force the commission and Blue Cross to pay outrageous fees. I find it interesting that you try to tie some physicians organizing to drive up their reimbursement rates to the impact of Obamacare since this all started before Obama was even elected.
In the first instance, it was the government that was setting the price for reimbursement of WC care.
In the second instance, it was a private company establishing the reimbursement rate, but it was only about half of the doctors that were dropping the coverage. The others were free to continue to practice at the going Blue Cross rates. Doctors should be free to decide whether or not they think that Blue Cross is adequately reimbursing them for their services, and if not, then they can elect to not work with Blue Cross. At the same time, other doctors are free to accept the lower rate and take the Blue Cross business from those doctors who did not find such work worth their while. If nobody is willing to accept the Blue Cross rate, that would be a sign that the rate was indeed too low, and Blue Cross could decide whether to increase it or not. If, however, some doctors were just trying to squeeze Blue Cross for more money, that creates an opportunity for other doctors to step in and fill the void. Generally, charges of "monopoly" are overblown, even when the licensing barriers to entry necessarily make the medical field a less responsive market.
This does, however, demonstrate the problem with labeling health care as a "right." Once it is deemed to be a right, any failure to provide the care is labeled as a deprivation of the patients' rights. If these were factory workers banding together to demand a higher wage, the administration would be falling all over itself to praise them, not to sue them.
I disagree with your comments regarding the issue of Doctors organizing.
Doctors have as much right to organize, meet, discuss and plan actions as do any other group of like minded people.
Do not union members organize and meet, discuss and plan actions?
CLW
The post "Reality in medical land" starts with talk about what "the market will bear," and then conveniently forgets that very little of the health care industry is market-driven at all. For starters, the government controls either directly (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) or indirectly (insurance mandates, heavy regulation of insurers) about 90% of health care spending. Only about 10% of spending is directed by consumers themselves. If consumers were responsible for a greater percentage of the burden of health care costs (perhaps through HSAs, with only catastrophic insurance coverage), then there would be greater incentive to spend more cost-effectively. I would be shocked to find out that the person posting about the costs of their medical care knew those costs before getting the treatment. Who cares, right? Insurance will pick up the bulk of it. People don't shop around for their basic (non-emergency) medical care, because they are not on the hook for most of the bills. As a finite resource, medical care must ultimately be rationed in some way. The big difference is between those who want the government to decide what care patients receive and those who want to decide for themselves. Had you been responsible for paying more of the bill for the pain specialist yourself, you probably would have done more of your homework ahead of time and found a more reliable specialist. In a true market, a person who provides bad service at a high cost will not be in business for long, especially in this age in which information is so easy to distribute and obtain.
Also, for all of the complaining by the pro-government-solution people, they seem to overlook the fact that the structure of our health care system is largely the result of government regulation. For example, the tax treatment of benefits is largely the reason why health insurance is so tied to employment. Insurance mandates at the state level have also driven up insurance costs in many areas, and people are not permitted to buy insurance across state lines. There are plenty of other examples.
It is very common these days for politicians to do everything in their power to prevent market forces from operating, and then blame all of the failures of their policies on "market failures." It is hard to tell if people are dishonest, misinformed, or perhaps a hefty dose of both.
Great article...you have to love the double standard in education. The last paragraph makes the best sense!
Who am I?
First off, I know its great to say "Government" and stir the folks all up. But it was a private company -Blue Cross Blue Shield - that set the price. Not the government.
The Doctors do not have to work for that wage. This is true. But they dont have the right to organize and form a monopoly either. The issue is that the Doctors organized.
What if all the repair shops got together and decided they werent going to work for less than $300 per hour. The Free Market no longer applies - everyone sets their rate to $300 per hour. That is in essence what the Doctors did.
Its amazing how you can take a Free Market principal people and twist em into non-free market people.
Digging into your pain specialist situation - it sounds like you won't go again. If that's the result of most or all of the specialist's patient visits, why do you suppose people haven't dried up the well for that doctor and dropped his/her fees by market force? I'm not hiding a snippy answer, by the way - I'll be thinking about that question until we figure it out.
In "no-fault" dissolution cases (NWO-fascism), children are seized from their natural guardian without trial, and then the natural guardian's income is plundered, bank accounts seized and credit trashed, all without notice or due process. When men complained, they were fired from their job and arrested for violating orders written in court rooms without their knowledge, but not a word of assistance or help from their neighbor.
Ok Doc, it's your turn.
Ok neighbor, you are next.
I find your comments very interesting, however, highly incorrect. Let’s put it in perspective: “are ortho docs worth more than GP's? hell no if anything less. Are heart specialists more or better trained than a GP?” OK, following your thinking, a private pilot is no better than a commercial airline pilot or a fighter pilot. They all have a certification to fly. What the hell is the difference? You might feel different when you get on that 767 that the Cessna pilot is playing Captain for. Good luck.
The GP is there to handle and identify health problems and treat the majority of injuries and illnesses. If he or she finds signs of a slipped capital femoral epiphysis or signs of unstable angina, he is not educated, trained or willing to jump in, put in screws, bone grafts or stents and does not want to do a three vessel coronary bypass graft. Once again, if you feel that is the case, PLEASE feel free to contact that doctor, give a couple of bucks to the non-trained gas passer that will be guessing how much anesthesia you need while getting cut open and have a good time. I can bet, due to your vision of the perfect medical system, none of these folks you will be dealing with will be able to afford the $125k a year malpractice insurance the specialists have to carry. So, when your kid can’t walk because the GP screwed his femur to his pelvis, or your heart fails to restart after surgery because of that extra two millimeters the scalpel penetrated. . . remember, you were the cause of the problem. Deal with it and don't expect a $10 million "They did me wrong" payout. Specialist obtain years of ADDITIONAL training, have more expertise, and understand specific systems MUCH better than the average GP, no different than the F-16 pilot who STARTED by being a Cessna pilot.
Your comment about working for the government does however give me an understanding of your position. It is your wish to make sure everyone has their share of the pie. Doesn’t matter that they didn’t help plant the seeds, grow the fruit, harvest it, prepare the dough, cook the pie or even set the table; everyone gets the same share. “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.” I believe that is the definition of communism. No thanks! You can have that, too. Enjoy your pie. I added special spices just for you.
I am praying and hopping you a speedy recovery. wishing you the best can't wait to see you again.
James Tucker
Sound like doctors and associated healthcare professionals should drop out of the system entirely, but still practice -- i.e. don't register, don't form a business entity, etc... but become a known, valued, and protected member (i.e. the neighbors and customers won't report you to gov. thugs) of the community to whom one can go for medical help and take only cash, gold/silver, barter as payment for services rendered.
I worked in the health care field for many years and no longer am practicing. When I heard about the new health care bill, I immediately thought of several obstacles. Doctors aren't going to put up with the unrealistic demands. Some will will stop practicing and those choosing to go into medicine will choose another career. Nurses will follow suit. Thinking that there are going to be enough nurses and doctors to absorb 30 million more people is crazy. You thought your wait to see a doctor now is long, the wait will be increased. Those that remain in the medical field will be way overworked. There is no way around rationing either. They will steal from Medicare to cover younger people. Bad, bad idea.
Great article, where is the state/federal gov't at in fighting the doctors on this?
Fact: All government health care plans are “Socialized Medical Care.” One thing is for sure…those hell-bent for statism have not given any thought to basic economic principles. When liberal candidates talk cost controls in health-care plans they mean "price controls." This would limit the number of individuals entering into the health care field. Those that have skills that would produce more money elsewhere, will leave the health market. Meaning the health care providers left, will demand higher wages because the work load will increase. Resulting in very limited (rationed) or substandard care provided in any socialist plan. Liberals loving statism just don’t understand the law of supply and demand~!
At some point you have to look at what the market will bear in costs- examples of this are the $120.00 screw drivers that major defense contracts charge DOD, $500 dollar toilet seats etc...Medical costs have been artificially forced up because of MD greed, insurance industry over charging to show profits to their share holders and justify ridiculous salaries of their CEO's and upper management costs. I work in Health and Government-and you know what we call it as we see it- price fixing is price fixing- are ortho docs worth more than GP's? hell no if anything less. Are heart specialists more or better trained than a GP? No again they may know more about one organ but a hell of alot less about total body systems and interactions. Where you see conspiracy I see an agency working towards a balance and fairness and extending the value of the dollars by getting more services, nothing different than insurance companies do when they contract with a provider.( I deal with the whining of the medical specialists all the time about them being underpaid) So before you go all "here come the commies" like that fool McCarthy from the 50's take the time to talk to the experts, ask questions -explore the reality- EXPLORE BOTH SIDES - believe it or not most folks who work in government health systems management are not there for the salary, but we are there for the betterment of the people we serve. Recently I went to see a pain specialist, I waited in his office 40 minutes for him to show up from the gym, I paid a $30. copay, my insurance was billed $550. and paid #400. he spent 4 minutes with me and offered me no suggestions saying I had to live with the pain. On the other hand my GP charged me $15. billed insurance 65 got paid $50, spent 35 minutes with me and found a solution- in a $100. medical device. Where was the real value? You always talk about socialized medicine like it is a bad thing. The only place it might be bad is on the auto dealers and real estate brokers pocket books - but on the general public it will make for a much better experience.