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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Do You think a Two-tier system would appease the people?

Lately on Y/A i have been noticing an increase in questions, particularly ignorant, with regard to the AMA and nationalized health care.

Well its hard to fault the AMA for trying to protect the wages of their physicians, who, lol, do not make millions like some think. Their is a difference between your cold doctor, and the surgeon who will be working on your head lol, please don't get the two confused.

First id like to point out, that i don't understand why people have an issue with the amount of money doctors make. Considering what your pay, they have expenses, they must ahve a staff, a building, a lobby, proper equipment, malpractiuce insurance, etc. and now they must have a computer record system in place by 2010 or they receive massive fines from the government. On top of all of us the glorified middle men, insurance and medical equipment providers take the largest piece of the pie. Health care is a BUSINESS, not a right, and whenever someone performs a service for us we give them money in return, this is simple. Think of it as society natural social darwinism. Doctors whom give up the formidable years of their life in pursuit of study of medicine, with 9 years of schooling, residency, understudy, to make sure that only the best come out of med school (with the exception of affirmative action acceptees) to work on you. SO these people should be reduced to a government job, is healthcare becomes nationalized, NO ONE and i repeat NO ONE will want the job, too much work for 70,000 a year. This is not a government job its a specialty. THen we will make it easier to become doctors, by limiting the schooling necessary and the quality of care will drop.

Now that my rant is done, i wonder if you guys think this solution is plausible. A two-tier system. One in which those who realize its a business and are willing the reimburse the fair and necesssary amount to their physicians for the service can still puruse doctors with appropriate education. For the others, the hospital emergency room leeches, the unemployed, the poor, the jobless, those who dont have their priorities in check (health is the most important thing in your life) can participate in my new system, its a government run system, that will select certain people and let them into a 4 year government college, ya know, THE UNTIED STATES school of medicine in AUSTIN, TEXAS, and these doctors can work in a governemnt run hospital, and the poeple that attend these will pay a low price and they will see the exact healthcare they will care in a nationalized system. WHAT do you think? WE all should not be punished because of the poor, the leeches, and whatever else is trying to take away my healthcare. TY all commentary accepted, opinions, ideas, additions anything you can offer please do.

Living with a CEO of a hospital, being around physicians, surgeons, insurance agents, and a friend of the family being a medical equipment provider are my sources!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Who would have thought the system would malfunction if you deprive it of a necessary input -- COMPENSATION.

    I agree with your rant...although I do believe we can do better w/ price by reforming malpractice law and mandating health insurance across the board to reduce chances of default and subsequent costs to users by allowing hospitals and insurance agencies to removes those risk-premiums.

    It's also strange to me that we'd consider gutting the entire system b/c 16% of people aren't covered. An 84% participation rate is pretty damn good for any system...albeit we'd all like the prices to come down.

  • 1 decade ago

    The leeches already have Obama in their pocket.

    How many doctors need to go out of business or stop providing certain services before the Med Mal caps come?

    My wife's OB/GYN stopped delivering babies in 2006 because of this issue, through no fault of her own. She simply could no longer afford the med mal premiums. And she was considered to be a very good doctor for her specialty in our community.

    So, having government decide what the doc gets pays will not alleviate the problem.

    Walter Reed medical center is all you need to know about government run hosptials. Is that what we really want?

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