Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 09:24:39 -0400EXCELLENT job of debunking Mark's stereotypes of wealthy doctors, Kevin. I hope it sinks in.
From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>
First off, our hospital just went through a rather significant lay off and pay cut due to 3 straight quarters of declining revenue and running in the red. All director level folk had to take up to a 15% decrease in pay, and over 50 employees lost their jobs.
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>Again, show me a doctor who's suffering and I'll worry about this aspect more.
I can show you group after group that are just barely paying their bills.
Increase in liability Insurance is indeed ruining the industry.
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These people have *HUGE* student loans, and ever decreasing incomes. Talk to a general pract. to get a good feel for what they go through.
And then you fall right off the cliff with this solution. Get in your time machine and take a trip to Russia's fully socialized medical system, as you apparently need an illustration of what this would mean. Or you could just talk to a friend of mine who ESCAPED Russia by emigration, but before she did, at the age of 11 had her tonsils removed without anesthetic, thanks to the state of Russian medicine. And this was in the '80s. But, by golly, it didn't cost her family a penny.Bring on Socialized medicine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Care is not a free good, as you of all listers know. Therefore it must be rationed somehow, and rationing based on government bureaucracy and waiting lists is far what we have now. Do you really want to create a black market in medical procedures for those who can afford them? Because that's what socialized medicine does.Care should be available to everyone.
bills that are 10x higher than for a person who has been insured and receiving health care all of their life.Rights are not measured by dollars, and doctors and patients have the right to a free market in medical procedures as well as houses, beer, pizza and CDs.
10x.
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So your hate for your political opposition is so intense that you call Shepard Smith a bitch for even mentioning simple facts about Pete?? Oooookay. Pardon me while I back slowly toward the door, hoping there are no sharp and throwable objects near you.Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:01:28 -0700 From: "An English Boy" <peter_dennis_blandford_townshend@hotmail.com> Sorry, but that's not the stripe that goes with my political stars. AEB~ >From: Alan McKendree <amck@thenetdr.com> >Then I don't see what your problem is. According to Jo, Smith "basically reported about what the email that Pete sent to Rolling Stone." That seems to meet the standard we'd hope for from press coverage of any political>stripe.