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Do practicing doctors, nurses, and health care providers actually support the Health Care bill?

I work in the Health Care industry and have not heard any doctors, nurses, or health care provider supporting this bill. Are the opinions people are giving based on facts or what they hear from the media?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    As a nurse I don't support the bill. There are sooo many things in the bill that are nonsense that people don't know about. Plus people need to realize how this bill will affect the type of care they will receive. Most likely hospitals will be reimbursed less money for the same type of care they currently provide. Making hospitals having to cut staff and affecting patient safety and quality of care. Plus where does the general public think the money for this bill is going to come from?? It should be interesting to see how this bill unfolds.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No. The AMA is a bureaucratic organization that only represents 29% of doctors. This organization is composed primarily of doctors that do not practice full-time, although some do. The AMA is a special interest group. Go ask any career physician.

    There is a significant degree of dissent within the AMA over the endorsement of the health care bill.

    Real physicians that practice full-time do not support this ridiculous agenda. Medicare and Medicaid are a pain in the *** to these men and women. They certainly do not want government having a larger presence in their careers. They are already over-burdened.

    There is a severe shortage of nurses in this country. They are already over-burdened as well. They do not support adding an additional 47 million new patients into the health care system.

    This is all about politics and really has nothing to do with healthcare.

  • D
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The media originates nothing. They wait for Obama to speak and then figure out a thousand ways to say the same thing. He thinks doctors, nurses and health care workers support this crap so therefore they do. He says it they believe it. Well, not all media.

  • 1 decade ago

    When my cardiologist visited me in the hospital after my operation the news was on, and this launched a political discussion where he ranted about government funded healthcare. However, his office was closed the other day so he could attend a rally in support of Medicare. Strange eh?

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think that it wouldn't be supported by most doctors and nurses because if adopted the reimbursement rates would decline and the work load would increase.

  • 1 decade ago

    Only fake doctors support it.

  • 1 decade ago

    no; many doctors hate the bill. only doctors who dont understand the bill will say it is OK.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You forgot to mention fake presidents

  • 1 decade ago

    Most do unless they are invested in the insurance industry.

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