Stitchmd over at the Daily Kos had this post about his take on what is wrong. He is a doctor in Baltimore. In my view, this is the crux of what he said about a system that provides,
incentives for physicians, and frankly other providers, to provide more services, but not necessarily better services.He goes on to note that,
doctors, and frankly health systems, get paid more for doing to the patient than doing for the patient.What is being debated in Congress now ...
... is health INSURANCE reform. Do we need to go further and look at how care is delivered? Can we have that debate without references to "death panels". I hope so. What do you think?
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We all can look into history and take a serious look at the effect of Reganomics. Trickle down economics was supposed to lift all boats. The middle class is still waiting for the rising tide. I feel as if I am repeating myself, but that is just because we have been told many times over by the conservatives that their way works best. CEOs have seen an increase in their pay of just under 500%, and the middle class has not seen more than $100 dollar increase in their pay when adjusted for inflation. Now with this economic crisis, the middle class has taken another hit, layoffs and if you were fortunate enough not to be laid off, you will probably not see a raise and you may even see a cut in pay. Are the conservatives kidding? This is the best way of economics. Not only has the middle class's wages remained stagnant, but it is decreasing. More and more of our money is being forced into healthcare leaving less money for us,the middle class to support our families.
Ray, Past policies seem to have served you pretty well. You are middle class, can afford a home and children and still have all day every day to play politics.
YEs, I am doing well, which in part of my union, International Brotherhood of Electrical workers and our negotiations. The rest of the middle class is not fairing as well as I am. look at the statistics, numbers do not lie and that is where I have made my conclusion.
GOP calls healthcare reform socialized medicine. They should break out a dictionary, socialized medicine includes and only is soclialized medicine when the government owes the hospital along with everything else
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