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Why Pay Physicians Anything
At All For Providing Healthcare?

Townhall.com, by Al Scherz

Original Article

Posted By:Desert Fox, 3/18/2013 8:37:08 PM

Sign-Up Last week, the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform released its recommendations, calling for the elimination of fee-for-service healthcare within the next 5 years. This organization, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is populated by physicians from academia, the insurance industry and from the public policy world. Having former GOP Senate Majority leader and cardiac surgeon Bill Frist serving as honorary chairman gives the imprimatur of bipartisanship and legitimacy. However, Dr. Frist, a former academic himself, has long favored a government supervised healthcare system, and is therefore less than objective in this regard.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ida Lou Pino, 3/18/2013 8:53:35 PM     (No. 9231948)

RINO chump Frist - - right in there mixing with the backslapping marxists and communists.

And to think - - I´ve sometimes been criticized for saying the Bush-era Pubbies betrayed the Reagan Legacy. LOL! What a great bunch of leaders the Pubbies had then - - including Senate majority leaders Truant (Dickie Scruggs´ favorite bro-in-law) Lott and Bill (these commies are really nice fellows) Frist.

And we wonder why we have a communist president today!


Reply 2 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 3/18/2013 9:00:09 PM     (No. 9231962)

I don`t even know where to start with this one. Madness has overtaken this nation. I never much believed in psychiatry but now I think many among us are in desperate need.

If the govn can determine what doctors are paid then they can tell all of us what we can or can`t be paid. When dangerous ideas are thrown about in such a frivolous manner it`s just a matter of time before darkness and despair overtakes our nation and we become a larger version of North Korea.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: balogreene, 3/18/2013 9:02:42 PM     (No. 9231964)

The ancient Chinese felt you didn´t pay doctor´s unless they kept you well. If you were sick, they weren´t doing their job. Now, we all know that is not true, some, if not most of us, ignore our doctor´s advice, but then again, ancient Chinese doctors weren´t listening to Obama, or the PC police.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Emmajustin, 3/18/2013 9:07:35 PM     (No. 9231973)

Why pay anyone for any work?
Let´s just take all the wealth of Bill Gates and the hollyweirdos and divide it up among the rest of us. You know, they didn´t earn it or build it. And it isn´t fair that they have gzillions and we don´t.
And bozo in the White House doesn´t need a salary because we give him room and board.
And congress critters don´t actually do anything beneficial so they shouldn´t get paid.
Let´s start there and see how it goes.


Reply 5 - Posted by: horacer, 3/18/2013 9:19:15 PM     (No. 9231990)

Bill Frist whose family founded and owns Hospital Corporation of America. Yeah it´s the docs and the hospitals have nothing to do with costs.


Reply 6 - Posted by: bamapreacher, 3/18/2013 9:35:32 PM     (No. 9232013)

I wonder how many of today´s young doctors have any sense of altruism and really want to be doctors to heal the sick rather than to have money and prestige. Any who don´t will probably decide 4 years of college, 3 of med school, 1 or 2 of internship and residency plus tons of bills just isn´t worth it if ideas like this gain any traction.


Reply 7 - Posted by: heartsurgeon, 3/18/2013 11:00:23 PM     (No. 9232135)

At a minimum, you have to pay physicians enough to purchase malpractice insurance.

We can´t have the insurance executives and the ambulance-chaser lawyers going hungry.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 3/18/2013 11:01:47 PM     (No. 9232139)

As if ObozoDon´tCare would be quite enough to essentially KILL U.S. Health Care, now this.

It was always considered slavery to place one in servitude without due compensation. Now, Hope & Change has brought back, via their own interpretation of Reparations, Slavery.

It´s as if our country has plugged up a huge toilet.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Dallasobg, 3/18/2013 11:14:50 PM     (No. 9232148)

Actually, that´s 4 years of college, 4 years of med school, at least 4 years of residency and possibly 3-4 additional years of fellowship. Student loans run in the hundreds of thousands.

We always work with the fear that we may be someone´s winning lottery ticket.

I love what I do but if I knew what medicine was to become I would have continued selling computers.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 3/19/2013 12:18:21 AM     (No. 9232221)

For my operation, that lasted all of twenty minutes, and was eprformed by interns (trainee doctors) the "physician fee" on the bill was $$4,768.00 The good student doctor saw me for two minutes prior to the operation and less than five in a post op- already released from the hospital visit. She never even looked at the wound, asked me only two questions: "How do you do?" and "Any problems?" Then said, "Please notify the hospital in even of any future problems." So, for that amount of time, all of about 27 minutes, the "Doctor" received about $10,595.00 an hour. Eventually, the hospital "settled" for a generous 50% cutting her fee dramatically. Poor thing- though I know the Hospital pays her a pittance and works her like a mule, they reaped a whopping $5,290.00 for her little half hours "work". Ah, well, what price health- right?


Reply 11 - Posted by: mustang flyer, 3/19/2013 12:24:09 AM     (No. 9232224)

Now that´s interesting...let´s not have to pay doctors for all the learning they went through and now somebody wants them to work for free...the Russians have a saying, ´we pretend to work and the government pretends to pay us´...so if doctors don´t get paid then if they refuse to do doctoring or do a shody job , what do ´we´ do? Can´t fire them since they aren´t really ´working´...why stop with doctors? Let´s include politicians...they pretend to work or you could say it´s difficult to see movement in their areas...we could apply that to presidents too...or is perpetual campaigning considered ´presidenting´? We could easily keep finding more candidates...


Reply 12 - Posted by: Merlin251, 3/19/2013 5:56:37 AM     (No. 9232353)

Imagine a healthcare system without doctors, it´s easy if you can!!!


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: MattMusson, 3/19/2013 8:38:08 AM     (No. 9232572)

Get ready folks. Soon your primary car physician will be your Smart Phone App.


Reply 14 - Posted by: privateer, 3/19/2013 11:25:55 AM     (No. 9232968)

Yes, 8 is right! Obama is the giant Transform-Us-Radically-Democrat that has plugged up the National Toilet.



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