Comments on: Holding doctors hostage for universal care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal.html#comment-87833 Anonymous Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal-care.html#comment-87833 Any reform WILL get screwed up. You guys who think that someone somewhere will get it right display a vast gap of understanding regarding just how little the officials understand. They think that if 90% of the physicians take medicaid, then medicaid is obviously paying too much. <br/><br/> The unfortunate presence of crooks in medicine trying the game the medicaid system get those who run it to be so cynical eventually that they get paranoid about docs in generally or at least become resistant to believing that most participants just do so as an act of charity. Any reform WILL get screwed up. You guys who think that someone somewhere will get it right display a vast gap of understanding regarding just how little the officials understand. They think that if 90% of the physicians take medicaid, then medicaid is obviously paying too much.

The unfortunate presence of crooks in medicine trying the game the medicaid system get those who run it to be so cynical eventually that they get paranoid about docs in generally or at least become resistant to believing that most participants just do so as an act of charity.

]]> By: Deron Schriverhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal.html#comment-87824 Deron Schriver Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal-care.html#comment-87824 Rendell has cost my group $90,000. Politics and healthcare do not go together. That is precisely why I am not in favor of a government run system. Rendell has cost my group $90,000. Politics and healthcare do not go together. That is precisely why I am not in favor of a government run system.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal.html#comment-87820 Anonymous Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/holding-doctors-hostage-for-universal-care.html#comment-87820 Hard to imagine a governor more hostile to physicians than "Fast Eddie" Rendell. He's what you'd expect from a Philadelphia trip-and-fall lawyer placed in charge of Pennsylvania's health care. Hard to imagine a governor more hostile to physicians than “Fast Eddie” Rendell. He’s what you’d expect from a Philadelphia trip-and-fall lawyer placed in charge of Pennsylvania’s health care.

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