Comments on: The Medicare cuts are coming http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-91109 Anonymous Fri, 01 May 2009 23:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/the-medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-91109 Just wanted to let everyone know that whoever wrote this article NEVER spoke a word to atleast one of the three doctors listed on here. I know this because I so happened to be related to one of the doctors listed and I personally know that they run and have ran their business completely different from what the writter is quoting Just wanted to let everyone know that whoever wrote this article NEVER spoke a word to atleast one of the three doctors listed on here. I know this because I so happened to be related to one of the doctors listed and I personally know that they run and have ran their business completely different from what the writter is quoting

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82204 Anonymous Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/the-medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82204 "Do no harm" means just that, not some right to have others work for free. Only immoral parasites try to twist that to mean a right to take what they won't pay for. “Do no harm” means just that, not some right to have others work for free. Only immoral parasites try to twist that to mean a right to take what they won’t pay for.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82202 Anonymous Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/the-medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82202 So much for "do no harm." So much for “do no harm.”

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82146 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:35:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/the-medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82146 Physicians don't take anything, they get paid on contract to work 80 hours per week (or more, if you know what I mean)when they are residents, caring for inpatient and outpatient Medicare patients and others. They might earn $40K before taxes so you figure the hourly rate. Oh, there isn't any additional billing for the resident, so the government gets a huge bargain for its outlay. There is no downstream deal. The government has no right to expect any more work than that for their money.<br/><br/>So yes, the government pays for residents in training. For the government, it is a steal. And no, they aren't entitled to anything more than their labor at that time. <br/><br/>As for financing their education, I don't see doctors taking anything more than anyone else who might take student loans. And I don't see the public squealing about their entitlement to others' work after graduation for having had loans on government terms. Physicians don’t take anything, they get paid on contract to work 80 hours per week (or more, if you know what I mean)when they are residents, caring for inpatient and outpatient Medicare patients and others. They might earn $40K before taxes so you figure the hourly rate. Oh, there isn’t any additional billing for the resident, so the government gets a huge bargain for its outlay. There is no downstream deal. The government has no right to expect any more work than that for their money.

So yes, the government pays for residents in training. For the government, it is a steal. And no, they aren’t entitled to anything more than their labor at that time.

As for financing their education, I don’t see doctors taking anything more than anyone else who might take student loans. And I don’t see the public squealing about their entitlement to others’ work after graduation for having had loans on government terms.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82136 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/the-medicare-cuts-are-coming.html#comment-82136 So physicians take government money to the tune of 6 figures or more to finance their eduction and residencies and now these same physicians can refuse to treat medicare/medicaid patients? Nice. So physicians take government money to the tune of 6 figures or more to finance their eduction and residencies and now these same physicians can refuse to treat medicare/medicaid patients? Nice.

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