<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: If Socialized Medicine is So Good&#8230;</title> <atom:link href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-87599</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-87599</guid> <description>True, doctor&#039;s salaries will be reduced substantially because they are paid per procedure, and the government will limit the number of procedures performed per practice. This also hurts the patient. If your group is only allowed to do 20 heart operations in a year and you happen to be case 21, well, too bad. Maybe next year. If there is one. When you stop and think about it, a paranoia-driven explanation for such a system would be population control...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, doctor&#8217;s salaries will be reduced substantially because they are paid per procedure, and the government will limit the number of procedures performed per practice. This also hurts the patient. If your group is only allowed to do 20 heart operations in a year and you happen to be case 21, well, too bad. Maybe next year. If there is one. When you stop and think about it, a paranoia-driven explanation for such a system would be population control&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-85706</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-85706</guid> <description>I just wish that this country could rely on its citizens to have other worries than how much money they were making...like human life.  I figure that&#039;s pretty important.  But, according to our health system, it&#039;s not.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just wish that this country could rely on its citizens to have other worries than how much money they were making&#8230;like human life.  I figure that&#8217;s pretty important.  But, according to our health system, it&#8217;s not.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78727</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78727</guid> <description>Demanding that everyone have money up front to pay for all medical care, is extremely arrogant and egotistical not to mention a total lack of reality. It says to all of us that you don&#039;t have a clue!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Um, demanding that we pay for you would indicate that you don&#039;t have a clue.  Look, if you want your healthcare paid for, the money has to come from somewhere.  That somewhere is from me, and the rest of us non-freeloaders.  And we don&#039;t want to cover your tab.  No-one owes you healthcare.  If you want it, pay for it, or do without, like the rest of us.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Demanding that everyone have money up front to pay for all medical care, is extremely arrogant and egotistical not to mention a total lack of reality. It says to all of us that you don&#8217;t have a clue!</p><p>Um, demanding that we pay for you would indicate that you don&#8217;t have a clue.  Look, if you want your healthcare paid for, the money has to come from somewhere.  That somewhere is from me, and the rest of us non-freeloaders.  And we don&#8217;t want to cover your tab.  No-one owes you healthcare.  If you want it, pay for it, or do without, like the rest of us.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78711</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78711</guid> <description>Seems to me before you can require ALL citizens to have health ins. you must first require that all citizens be offered an ins. plan. Do you not hear what people are saying? They are saying they cannot get ins. in this country.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You guys want it all and it just cannot happen. Demanding that everyone have money up front to pay for all medical care, is extremely arrogant and egotistical not to mention a total lack of reality. It says to all of us that you don&#039;t have a clue!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems to me before you can require ALL citizens to have health ins. you must first require that all citizens be offered an ins. plan. Do you not hear what people are saying? They are saying they cannot get ins. in this country.</p><p>You guys want it all and it just cannot happen. Demanding that everyone have money up front to pay for all medical care, is extremely arrogant and egotistical not to mention a total lack of reality. It says to all of us that you don&#8217;t have a clue!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: john</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78651</link> <dc:creator>john</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78651</guid> <description>Anon 2:38--&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Pay primary care doctors in cash.  Require all citizens to have health insurance so surgeons on call get paid.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At least that&#039;s where I&#039;ve gotten by reading KevinMD.  It sounds OK.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon 2:38&#8211;</p><p>Pay primary care doctors in cash.  Require all citizens to have health insurance so surgeons on call get paid.</p><p>At least that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve gotten by reading KevinMD.  It sounds OK.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78623</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78623</guid> <description>Canadian doctors complain about their system.  US physicians bitch incessantly about theirs.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Where is the utopia you all seek?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Canadian doctors complain about their system.  US physicians bitch incessantly about theirs.</p><p>Where is the utopia you all seek?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78616</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78616</guid> <description>Touche&#039;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Touche&#8217;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78612</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78612</guid> <description>&quot;You have already stated that because your positions are correct, lashing-out is justified. Since I disagree with you, and think Moore is a loud-mouthed gasbag, you are certain to castigate me for this post, too. But you must know better than me.&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hmm...one might almost think that you were &lt;i&gt;lashing out&lt;/i&gt; at me. Of course, that would be impossible since you (I assume it was you) characterized such as &quot;misbehavior&quot; and you would never deign to be hypocritical.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;BTW, it is possible for Moore to be a &quot;loud-mouthed gas bag&quot; &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; still be right. Still, I would have thought you&#039;d be against Ad Hominem attacks like calling Moore a &quot;gas bag&quot; given your morally righteous stance...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You have already stated that because your positions are correct, lashing-out is justified. Since I disagree with you, and think Moore is a loud-mouthed gasbag, you are certain to castigate me for this post, too. But you must know better than me.&#8221;</p><p>Hmm&#8230;one might almost think that you were <i>lashing out</i> at me. Of course, that would be impossible since you (I assume it was you) characterized such as &#8220;misbehavior&#8221; and you would never deign to be hypocritical.</p><p>BTW, it is possible for Moore to be a &#8220;loud-mouthed gas bag&#8221; <i>and</i> still be right. Still, I would have thought you&#8217;d be against Ad Hominem attacks like calling Moore a &#8220;gas bag&#8221; given your morally righteous stance&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78604</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:31:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78604</guid> <description>You have already stated that because your positions are correct, lashing-out is justified. Since I disagree with you, and think Moore is a loud-mouthed gasbag, you are certain to castigate me for this post, too. But you must know better than me.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have already stated that because your positions are correct, lashing-out is justified. Since I disagree with you, and think Moore is a loud-mouthed gasbag, you are certain to castigate me for this post, too. But you must know better than me.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78586</link> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/08/if-socialized-medicine-is-so-good.html#comment-78586</guid> <description>&quot;Sure. I guess anyone who disagrees with kevin and agrees with you can misbehave with impunity.&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Misbehave? What is this? Kindergarten?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I don&#039;t think that merely writing posts that are critical in response to a dogmatic viewpoint is &quot;misbehaving.&quot; I&#039;d say your definition of &quot;misbehavior&quot; is an overly broad one.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sure. I guess anyone who disagrees with kevin and agrees with you can misbehave with impunity.&#8221;</p><p>Misbehave? What is this? Kindergarten?</p><p>I don&#8217;t think that merely writing posts that are critical in response to a dogmatic viewpoint is &#8220;misbehaving.&#8221; I&#8217;d say your definition of &#8220;misbehavior&#8221; is an overly broad one.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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