The alternative to tort reform: No doctor

Have any of you given some serious thought to the following: At some point the blackmail and extortion tactics will stop working even with the soft-minded American populace. Does it not concern any of you that instead of forking over more money or giving up more of their rights that the populace may just say enough and instead push to revamp the entire system?

Resentment of others’ perceived wealth from the same ravenous mouths that want to eat on someone else’s dime.

Uhhhhh… Actually Hawaii does have single payer healthcare or very close to it … That was kind of the purpose of the article … why do you think they are calling for an investigation of the government to see where the money is going from the taxes … that’s not just medicare and medicaid they are talking about.

Anon 9:58

On one hand we see this pabulum of “special bond” between the provider and patient, hypocritical oath and “do no harm” nonsense. If responsibility is to be commensurate with the privileges derived from the above, then abandoning existing patients for purely fiscal reasons is unacceptable. Empowering the legal system to carve out a nice oligopoly over the health care system also has its drawbacks. The same legally empowered system can turn on the providers. Those in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia are finding this out. For years various provider groups have supported every junk tax scheme that puts money in their pockets. The same system, having sucked the rest of the tax payers dry, is now turning on them.

anon 12:19

Prove to me that people don’t live near Chernobyl because the schools aren’t good. I want to see the data. Without data backing up your point I will not believe what you are saying. I demand to see the proof.

I shouldn’t even say statistic, because the original post offered no support at all for its claims.

Most people in this country are more than willing to move to another town or state if doing so increases their family income. Not only willing, we do it all the time. It’s absurd to think doctors shouldn’t/won’t do the same. Even more absurd to even imply they have an obligation not to consider such a move.

Few career choices require the number of years of training and mountain of debt as the medical profession.

Also: a plumber who whines that doctors make too much money won’t worry about charging the poor exorbitant prices for their services. Basically, every worker is out to earn the most he can and feels perfectly entitled to, as he should.

But what really ticks me off is that most of the illnesses people run to the doctor for are brought on by lifestyle choices, but no one wants to accept that responsibility. We just demand that doctors be available to clean up our messes. For free, or close to it. Herds of whiny morons.

“Few career choices require the number of years of training and mountain of debt as the medical profession. “

Few career choices pay as much, either. To whom much is given, much is expected. Who’s the whiner again?

“Few career choices pay as much, either. To whom much is given, much is expected. Who’s the whiner again?”

Says who, those who are envious and want to take what they would rather not pay for? That is the rationalization of the self-righteous thief: nothing worth paying for isn’t better had when simply stolen.

“Talk about entitlements, you guys think you are some how entitled to all the money from all the people.”

Certainly no more sense of entitlement than there is in large segments of the population who feel entitled to professional services for free.