Who's your Doctor gonna be?

[timmgirvan]

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...aspx?id=531277

I want to see them spin this one! This was brought up before the "fabled vote" and before anybody got a real chance to discuss it!

[Princess Doreen]

While we were on vacation in Florida a few weeks back, our hosts were informed that their Internist was closing up shop at the end of May.

When we got home a few weeks later, a letter was waiting for us from our GP. He's giving up his practice the end of this year.

Just a couple of examples. Probably not scientific, but I'm sure there's lot of similar stories out there.

The emergency rooms will be cleared out of those not having health insurance to be replaced by those who can't find a family practice doctor.

[docicu3]

Eventual paying anywhere from 300K to 650K for 4 years of med school, as if it was the mortgage on a home, and then making 90-110K/yr as a family practioner simply doesn't make sense. Until Obama and friends even acknowledge, never mind do something to offset the investment in time and money a young physician must make there is no chance the next generation will have family practice/internal medicine docs. The price of the education selects for subspecialtists. Plain and simple...and no health care plan for those that cannot afford insurance is going to change this.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by docicu3

Eventual paying anywhere from 300K to 650K for 4 years of med school, as if it was the mortgage on a home, and then making 90-110K/yr as a family practioner simply doesn't make sense. Until Obama and friends even acknowledge, never mind do something to offset the investment in time and money a young physician must make there is no chance the next generation will have family practice/internal medicine docs. The price of the education selects for subspecialtists. Plain and simple...and no health care plan for those that cannot afford insurance is going to change this.

This whole scenario demonstrates the devious,clandestine bent of this administration. It just doesn't add up to sound financial practice. The paradigm shift enfolding in this country is astounding.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

This whole scenario demonstrates the devious,clandestine bent of this administration. It just doesn't add up to sound financial practice. The paradigm shift enfolding in this country is astounding.

If you had a clue it would die of lonlieness.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by jms62

If you had a clue it would die of lonlieness.

....like you would know a CLUE!

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by jms62

If you had a clue it would die of lonlieness.

And, what's your CLUE - Obama killed healthcare in DC with the House minions?!~

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

This whole scenario demonstrates the devious,clandestine bent of this administration. It just doesn't add up to sound financial practice. The paradigm shift enfolding in this country is astounding.

Too true, Timm. It's never been about health care. It's all about control. Government control - a piece at a time, little by little. Wonder when the effects of the "Hope Change" sleeping pills are going to wear off.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Princess Doreen

The emergency rooms will be cleared out of those not having health insurance to be replaced by those who can't find a family practice doctor.

The creation and development of "family practice" doctors has been a problem in medicine for decades.

It has nothing to do with who is currently President of the US

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by Riot

The creation and development of "family practice" doctors has been a problem in medicine for decades.

It has nothing to do with who is currently President of the US

It most certainly does. He's making the problem worse and eventually unfixable.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Princess Doreen

It most certainly does. He's making the problem worse and eventually unfixable.

Only in the minds of the paranoid and factually bereft.

And "he" isn't the one "making the problem worse" (your words, not mine), that would be the Senators and Representatives legally elected by your fellow citizens.

Your characterization of the complexities involved in having doctors available to treat the 330 million people of this country as "unfixable" and due to one person who was elected last fall as President of the United States is beyond ridiculous.

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by Riot

Only in the minds of the paranoid and factually bereft.

When reason fails, go for the cheap shots.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Great post ... finally someone that gets it.

THIS is what brought you out of retirement?!?!

Originally Posted by Riot

Only in the minds of the paranoid and factually bereft.

Oh, such a familiar refrain.