Comments on: Forcing the medical sector to compete for patients http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81550 Anonymous Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81550 "I don't know why, but I'm not that comfortable with them."<br/><br/>That's OK, remember you have the right to change health care practioners.<br/><br/>I don't trust anyone, including my own physician, who's always got her nose up her ass. “I don’t know why, but I’m not that comfortable with them.”

That’s OK, remember you have the right to change health care practioners.

I don’t trust anyone, including my own physician, who’s always got her nose up her ass.

]]> By: Miahttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81494 Mia Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81494 At my medical center, the shortage of doctors has been filled by foreign born doctors trained in their in their home countries. I don't know why, but I'm not that comfortable with them. At my medical center, the shortage of doctors has been filled by foreign born doctors trained in their in their home countries. I don’t know why, but I’m not that comfortable with them.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81487 Anonymous Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81487 "The problems with medicine are not demand; it's supply."<br/><br/>From the patient side, sure. from a monetary side, you're barking mad. You seem to overlook why physicians are bailing on primary care. Not to burst your bubble, but FMGs don't want to do primary care in the US either.<br/><br/>If primary care is to recover its physicians, it must be attractive to physicians. Medicare and Medicaid have turned compensation into a joke, and you expect to see competition for peanuts. Not going to happen... “The problems with medicine are not demand; it’s supply.”

From the patient side, sure. from a monetary side, you’re barking mad. You seem to overlook why physicians are bailing on primary care. Not to burst your bubble, but FMGs don’t want to do primary care in the US either.

If primary care is to recover its physicians, it must be attractive to physicians. Medicare and Medicaid have turned compensation into a joke, and you expect to see competition for peanuts. Not going to happen…

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81483 Anonymous Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81483 More accurately, as long as dirty filthy guild monopolists physicians artificially depress the supply of doctors, we won't see adequate competition. <br/><br/>The problems with medicine are not demand (people want too much care); it's supply. Let more people become doctors--or import them from India. More accurately, as long as dirty filthy guild monopolists physicians artificially depress the supply of doctors, we won’t see adequate competition.

The problems with medicine are not demand (people want too much care); it’s supply. Let more people become doctors–or import them from India.

]]> By: Kevinhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81454 Kevin Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:35:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81454 Precisely. As long as physician schedules are as overbooked as they are, and primary care continues to be further in demand, any talk of "competition" for physician services is laughable. <br/><br/>Thanks,<br/>Kevin Precisely. As long as physician schedules are as overbooked as they are, and primary care continues to be further in demand, any talk of “competition” for physician services is laughable.

Thanks,
Kevin

]]> By: Zagreus Ammonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/forcing-medical-sector-to-compete-for.html#comment-81452 Zagreus Ammon Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/forcing-the-medical-sector-to-compete-for-patients.html#comment-81452 Hold on... people want me to compete for the assumption of risk? I take on the responsibility for treating someone -- meaning the risk of liability -- and am inadequately compensated for that risk and I am the one who needs to compete???<br/><br/>Who is this quack?<br/><br/>How many good primary docs do you know, with open schedules?<br/><br/>Maybe Zagat can start rating the patients for us and we get to pick and chose who will be our patients. Hold on… people want me to compete for the assumption of risk? I take on the responsibility for treating someone — meaning the risk of liability — and am inadequately compensated for that risk and I am the one who needs to compete???

Who is this quack?

How many good primary docs do you know, with open schedules?

Maybe Zagat can start rating the patients for us and we get to pick and chose who will be our patients.

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