If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

If that’s the case, let’s just make them all govt. employees, pay them a hell of a lot less, and do away with all of this fractured healthcare mess.”

We already have that system in place. It’s called Medicare.

There is the gummit for you!

Hey! Don’t let the secret out! I work as an MD specialist in a government institution and see 20 patients per day, work out in the gym for 1 hour and then go for a 45 mins run. After all that I am home before 4pm…

If you think that is lax, you should see what the civil servants are doing here, it is akin to highway robbery.

That is the gummit for you!

Since you have asked… Here is what I would do. Remove the CME or any other medical group from the process of certifying medical schools, decouple medical schools from large research institutions and allow for-profit medical schools. I would increase the funding for residency programs dramatically. I would shift the MDs out of the primary care business into specialties and increase the training of NPs and PAs such that they could serve as PCPs. Finally, I would start the process of either having nationalized or regionalized health care with the latter being akin to the fire or police department. Providers would either be local, state or federal employees. The pay might be less than what they are making now but gone would be the running a small business headache, liability headache and working hellacious hours headache. Along with this, I would have either the local, state of federal body pick up the total cost of the education tab for medical students in the same manner as they do with fire fighters or police officers.

This is specious. The analogy is not IPods to physicians, it is IPods to insurance products.

Is the insurance product in Florida worth four times as much as the insurance product in California?