ObamaKare and utopian socialized medicine finally coming to AmeriKa
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From: Brian on 16 Apr 2010 21:16 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:49:00 -0500, Mitchell Holman <noemail(a)comcast.net> wrote: >"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" <pjdnvn505(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:51c78e07-f80d- >41ec-9404-368099a70b33(a)h27g2000yqm.googlegroups.com: > >> If the income tax isn�t bad enough �: "The infamous �death tax� now >> has a new sibling: the $17 billion �breath tax.� The new health >> overhaul law requires everyone in America who breathes to have health >> insurance by 2014 � Internal Revenue Commissioner Douglas Shulman said >> that enforcement of the individual mandate will come by seizing tax >> refunds and �collection', if need be.�� >> >> Georgia Resists Healthcare Mandate: "The insurance commissioner of >> Georgia has chosen not to comply with a federal request to create a >> state pool for high-risk insurance plans, opening a new front in the >> resistance by state Republican officials to the new federal health >> care law.� >> >> U.S. Could See Doctor Shortage Soon: "Experts warn there won�t be >> enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the >> law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a >> shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according >> to the Association of American Medical Colleges. That shortfall is >> predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to >> boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.� >> > > Name one US medical school with a shortage of applicants. > > You don't seem to understand the problem.
From: Mitchell Holman on 16 Apr 2010 21:47 Brian <drmorrisnospam(a)comcast.net> wrote in news:6v2is5phrv92464ffk732tvr14fp1q0ifb(a)4ax.com: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:49:00 -0500, Mitchell Holman > <noemail(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >>"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" <pjdnvn505(a)gmail.com> wrote in >>news:51c78e07-f80d- >>41ec-9404-368099a70b33(a)h27g2000yqm.googlegroups.com: >> >>> If the income tax isn�t bad enough �: "The infamous �death tax� now >>> has a new sibling: the $17 billion �breath tax.� The new health >>> overhaul law requires everyone in America who breathes to have >>> health insurance by 2014 � Internal Revenue Commissioner Douglas >>> Shulman said that enforcement of the individual mandate will come by >>> seizing tax refunds and �collection', if need be.�� >>> >>> Georgia Resists Healthcare Mandate: "The insurance commissioner of >>> Georgia has chosen not to comply with a federal request to create a >>> state pool for high-risk insurance plans, opening a new front in the >>> resistance by state Republican officials to the new federal health >>> care law.� >>> >>> U.S. Could See Doctor Shortage Soon: "Experts warn there won�t be >>> enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under >>> the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could >>> face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, >>> according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. That >>> shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and >>> medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now >>> totals about 954,000.� >>> >> >> Name one US medical school with a shortage of applicants. >> >> > You don't seem to understand the problem. What does Obama have to do with the problem?
From: Brian on 18 Apr 2010 17:59 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:47:00 -0500, Mitchell Holman <noemail(a)comcast.net> wrote: > What does Obama have to do with the problem? Adding 32 million people to the insurance rolls when there aren't enough providers already while at the same time, reducing the financial incentive to become a physician.
From: Mitchell Holman on 18 Apr 2010 22:47 Brian <drmorrisnospam(a)comcast.net> wrote in news:r30ns5933bo16e6so76o425nuac7mup8p4(a)4ax.com: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:47:00 -0500, Mitchell Holman > <noemail(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > >> What does Obama have to do with the problem? > > Adding 32 million people to the insurance rolls when there aren't > enough providers already while at the same time, reducing the > financial incentive to become a physician. Last time I looked every medical school in the country had far more applicants than slots, and that doesn't include the thousands of foriegn doctors trying to move the US. Maybe you can show us where this "reduced incintive" to be a doctor can be found in the statistics. I don't see it.
From: William Black on 20 Apr 2010 07:22
Brian wrote: > You may think that reducing fees and adding more regulation will > attract people but I doubt it. It certainly did in the UK. -- William Black "Any number under six" The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat single handed with a quarterstaff. |