Comments on: Schwarzenegger Passes Spending Bill For Socialized Medicine http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html medical blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:18:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82408 Anonymous Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82408 Derm Doc can always hire a PA to deal with the Medicare-using patients in his practice, and juice their service charge with biopsy of the ever-important three suspicious lesions at every visit. Derm Doc can always hire a PA to deal with the Medicare-using patients in his practice, and juice their service charge with biopsy of the ever-important three suspicious lesions at every visit.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82400 Anonymous Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82400 Fly on the wall in the dermatologist office.<br/><br/>Hey DermDr, can you pick up line 1? It's a middle-aged lady with five hundred bucks who wants Botox. Can you get her in this afternoon before she finds another dermatologist?<br/><br/>Oh, what's on line 2? A family doc calling about an old lady with Medicare. She's got this black knobby thing on her shoulder. It's bleeding and growing. I was gonna put him on hold for an hour and then hang up. You know how I like that. <br/><br/>Oh, what's that? You've got a charity slot in two months? OK, she's on. We've got the press scheduled to cover your annual Medicare appointment. It's a press tie-in to your spring publicity run. Fly on the wall in the dermatologist office.

Hey DermDr, can you pick up line 1? It’s a middle-aged lady with five hundred bucks who wants Botox. Can you get her in this afternoon before she finds another dermatologist?

Oh, what’s on line 2? A family doc calling about an old lady with Medicare. She’s got this black knobby thing on her shoulder. It’s bleeding and growing. I was gonna put him on hold for an hour and then hang up. You know how I like that.

Oh, what’s that? You’ve got a charity slot in two months? OK, she’s on. We’ve got the press scheduled to cover your annual Medicare appointment. It’s a press tie-in to your spring publicity run.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82397 Anonymous Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82397 Coul;dn't make it through the day witout the obigatory self-righteous tongue lahsing from a bleeding heart.<br/><br/>DermDoc, since you're particular specialty is known worldwide for it's altruism (not to mention it's status as a critical cog in the wheel of this nation's health engine), you won't mind when the Governator and his ilk levy a special tax on you and your kind to finance his notions of universal health care for the more worthy?<br/><br/>After all it's just money, and as you imply YOU'D be the last person on this earth to want MONEY for his sweat and labor. Coul;dn’t make it through the day witout the obigatory self-righteous tongue lahsing from a bleeding heart.

DermDoc, since you’re particular specialty is known worldwide for it’s altruism (not to mention it’s status as a critical cog in the wheel of this nation’s health engine), you won’t mind when the Governator and his ilk levy a special tax on you and your kind to finance his notions of universal health care for the more worthy?

After all it’s just money, and as you imply YOU’D be the last person on this earth to want MONEY for his sweat and labor.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82396 Anonymous Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82396 Holier than thou preaching from a dermatologist? That's rich. Holier than thou preaching from a dermatologist? That’s rich.

]]> By: Shaun http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82391 Shaun Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82391 Great summary of the California legislation. Good to hear that the 2% tax on physicians was left out. I don't mind the cigarrette tax. Great summary of the California legislation. Good to hear that the 2% tax on physicians was left out. I don’t mind the cigarrette tax.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82379 Anonymous Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82379 Uhh... On what planet is mandating that people buy insurance from a private market "socialized?" There are reasonable reasons to object to the California plan, but that description is just silly. Uhh… On what planet is mandating that people buy insurance from a private market “socialized?” There are reasonable reasons to object to the California plan, but that description is just silly.

]]> By: DermDoc http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82372 DermDoc Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82372 To anonymous-<br/>Is that why you went into medicine? To squirrel enough money away to retire? That's what Hedge Fund managers do for a living. Aren't you a physician? <br/><br/>As is evident in the daily news, people of this country feel that their health care is failing them. Every candidate is talking about health care because it is an important issue to people.<br/><br/>To shrug it off as "not from my pocket" is to be out of touch with what's happening here. This attitude is exactly what voters and politicians will make physicians pay for as they expect more from their physicians. To anonymous-
Is that why you went into medicine? To squirrel enough money away to retire? That’s what Hedge Fund managers do for a living. Aren’t you a physician?

As is evident in the daily news, people of this country feel that their health care is failing them. Every candidate is talking about health care because it is an important issue to people.

To shrug it off as “not from my pocket” is to be out of touch with what’s happening here. This attitude is exactly what voters and politicians will make physicians pay for as they expect more from their physicians.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-82367 Anonymous Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/12/schwarzenegger-passes-spending-bill-for-socialized-medicine.html#comment-82367 What happened to the tax on physicians, did this finally get killed off? What happened to the tax on physicians, did this finally get killed off?

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