I see your ideology distorts your view.

I currently wait 2 months for a 10 minute appointment with a doctor who would rather write a prescription than listen to my issues, make a accurate diagnosis and devise an appropriate treatment plan. I have been misdiagnosed 5 times, 3 times with the same wrong diagnosis because the doctor didn’t read the chart. This is great health care?

Perhaps univeral “commie care” isn’t the best option what we hav e now certainly isn’t working. Do I have to have a tramatic injury to get decent care? I would rather live a quality healthy life with everyday health care than survive that tramatic crash. Instead, I live with chronic illness that doctors don’t have time to diagnose and treat appropriately.

You sound like Ann Coulter with your conspiracy theories. Instead of engaging in real conversation on how to deal with our health care crisis, you use fear and insults to get your point across.

Some authors had JD’s. They indoctrinated trainees for hours. Those trainees still had totally unacceptable inter-rater reliabilities, making all findings garbage.

Next, they had the trainees rate the charts of clinicians. Ignorant, lawyer indoctrination victims, trainees with unacceptable inter-rater reliabilities rated the work of experienced clinicians.

What this study proves is that clinicians will get scapegoated by left wing ideologues from Harvard, for bad outcomes in moribund old people, expressing outcome bias at best, and vengeful, left wing Harvard hatred of clinicians, more likely.

You had to read the Methods section in tiny print to learn that.

I have one word rebuttal for Commie Care, which this study was meant to promote. Princess Diana.

No EMT’s. No supervisor. No telemetry. No helicopter. No trauma center. No waiting operating room with a thoracic surgeon. No. In Commie Care, you get futzing for 45 minutes at the scene, with the Princess talking. Then you get a ride to the academic medical center 4 miles away for one and half hours, with stops to do street resuscitation on a trauma victim bleed from an arterial tear in her chest. Go ahead compress the chest. See what happens in Commie Care. The Princess could have survived her injuries in the worst slums of the United States.

What chance do ordinary, seriously ill people have, once Obama enacts Commie Care?

From “America’s Healthcare System is the Third Leading Cause of Death”
Barbara Starfield, M.D. (2000)
Summary by Kah Ying Choo

• 12,000 deaths per year due to unnecessary surgery

• 7000 deaths per year due to medication errors in hospitals

• 20,000 deaths per year due to other errors in hospitals

• 80,000 deaths per year due to infections in hospitals

• 106,000 deaths per year due to negative effects of drugs

“The traditional medical paradigm that emphasizes the use of prescription medicine and medical treatment has not only failed to improve the health of Americans, but also led to the decline in the overall well-being of Americans.”

White people here are doing better than their relatives in Europe, and we would rank at the top or near the top if only white health outcomes were counted.

Patients can do their own pre-authorizations and limitation of procedures by the promotion of medical savings accounts. We need health insurance only for catastrophic care. Lesser care and medications should be paid for from the personal asset of the medical savings account. The patient is the best judge of medical necessity, after the pros and cons are reviewed by the doctor, and supplemented by personal internet research.

As doctors squabble over who gets the biggest pieces of the health care pie, I suppose I will continue to rot at the bottom of the boat.