Comments on: Cut Medicare payments for doctors, you’ll have fewer doctors http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dr.Sincerehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html#comment-81941 Dr.Sincere Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll-have-fewer-doctors.html#comment-81941 "We just have the wrong mix of doctors.<br/># posted by Anonymous : 5:58 PM"<br/><br/>We have MDs who want big bucks and should have gone to business school instead of med school. “We just have the wrong mix of doctors.
# posted by Anonymous : 5:58 PM”

We have MDs who want big bucks and should have gone to business school instead of med school.

]]> By: Harryhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html#comment-81918 Harry Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll-have-fewer-doctors.html#comment-81918 Yeah, the more medicare starts to get out of hand, the more people are shut out of what they really need. Many elderly people on fixed incomes have to deal with these increasing premiums, and this all happens when???? At the point in their life when they need medical attention the most.. What do the health care companies do while this is happening? They sit back and collect the money.. This is why <br/>AARP has set up http:// www.thisissoridiculous.com so that we can sign a petition to make our voice heard. They also have updated news, video and while your there you can e-mail your congressman to let him know how you feel! Medicare is an important issue in the US right now, and we really need to be heard on this, or it’s just going to get more and more out of hand! Yeah, the more medicare starts to get out of hand, the more people are shut out of what they really need. Many elderly people on fixed incomes have to deal with these increasing premiums, and this all happens when???? At the point in their life when they need medical attention the most.. What do the health care companies do while this is happening? They sit back and collect the money.. This is why
AARP has set up http:// http://www.thisissoridiculous.com so that we can sign a petition to make our voice heard. They also have updated news, video and while your there you can e-mail your congressman to let him know how you feel! Medicare is an important issue in the US right now, and we really need to be heard on this, or it’s just going to get more and more out of hand!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html#comment-81917 Anonymous Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll-have-fewer-doctors.html#comment-81917 dear anon 9:34 I think you may be making kevin's point regarding primary care. Areas with MORE Doctors are areas of MORE specialists that lead to fractured non-continuous care that is worse. The doctors in underserved areas are usually disproportionally primary care. I really think to say "and fewer doctors is a BAD thing?" shows your bias without thinking thru the factors that make "more doctors are no better" We just have the wrong mix of doctors. dear anon 9:34 I think you may be making kevin’s point regarding primary care. Areas with MORE Doctors are areas of MORE specialists that lead to fractured non-continuous care that is worse. The doctors in underserved areas are usually disproportionally primary care. I really think to say “and fewer doctors is a BAD thing?” shows your bias without thinking thru the factors that make “more doctors are no better” We just have the wrong mix of doctors.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html#comment-81911 Anonymous Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll-have-fewer-doctors.html#comment-81911 Providers can rail all they wish in the upcoming year. The rest of us that pay taxes have, at some point, to say enough is enough with the Medicare provider gravy train. Between the boondoggles known as Medicare and Social(ist) Security there has to be a limit placed upon the perfidy put upon the taxpayers. If such programs can not be axed in their entirety, then the least that can be done is to roll them back.<br/><br/>~Criminallopath~ Providers can rail all they wish in the upcoming year. The rest of us that pay taxes have, at some point, to say enough is enough with the Medicare provider gravy train. Between the boondoggles known as Medicare and Social(ist) Security there has to be a limit placed upon the perfidy put upon the taxpayers. If such programs can not be axed in their entirety, then the least that can be done is to roll them back.

~Criminallopath~

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll.html#comment-81909 Anonymous Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/cut-medicare-payments-for-doctors-youll-have-fewer-doctors.html#comment-81909 And fewer doctors is a BAD thing? Remember outcomes (in statistical average) are WORSE or at least no better in areas of the country with more doctors--as the Dartmouth studies repeatedly show.<br/><br/>Doctors kill. We should have fewer of them.<br/><br/>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/opinion/10goodman.html?ex=1310184000&en=5dc29d987e668bc4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss And fewer doctors is a BAD thing? Remember outcomes (in statistical average) are WORSE or at least no better in areas of the country with more doctors–as the Dartmouth studies repeatedly show.

Doctors kill. We should have fewer of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/opinion/10goodman.html?ex=1310184000&en=5dc29d987e668bc4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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