My sister called me today, she's a doctor.

Good, she SHOULD be questioning her qualifications, she's obviously NOT smart enough to remain a Doctor!



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Cash and carry medical services. It's already started in Raleigh.

PEOPLE WHO MAKE 250K ARE NOT MIDDLE CLASS TARDO! GO FUCK YOURSELF MMKKAY THANKS. ITS CALLED AN EDUCATION, GET ONE.

My spouse is a physician and is actually looking forward to getting paid since there will be no more "ward patients" who do not have insurance.

Sub specialists will see the most changes, and will have to stop accepting bullshit consults which the patient doesn't need.

Doctors will have to stop ordering consults in order to just cover themselves due to liability or to pad the pocket of a colleague.

There will be changes for sure, but the benefits for those who have no health care will be great.

Just my 2 cents.

Yay! A big step to reducing the cost of medical care. Cut out all the insurance middlemen.

$250k a year is UPPER class no matter how you slice it. A $250k a year exec has a totally different lifestyle from a $50k a year manager. No comparison.

LOL, your too much. GOV Shill

you will have to go before the obama death panel and they will decide your fate.

lol

go easy on AC 6685296 ... they get paid by the post

It's amazing the rating this thread has gotten. The Shills are strong tonight. Vote it up 5* GLPers.

I was told by an ER nurse that because of Obamacare that it will be the first time in US history that people will be turned away at the ER. Not sure if it is true, but scary if it is.

The problem is not the insurance companies, as much as liberals like to say that. One problem is tort laws that allow lawsuit for ridiculous things. If a doctor has a patient with a pain, and 99% of the time it can be diagnosed with simple procedures, but there is an infinitesimal chance the procedure might miss something, they send them on to the cat scan or MRI to avoid a potentially devastating lawsuit. This often costs the insurance company thousands of dollars. Obama stated early on he was against tort reform, because lawyers contribute heavily to the Dems.

Another problem is the welfare people that check in with "stomach pains" to get a clean bed, color TV with remote, free drugs, and three squares a day. Dozens did this on a regular basis at his hospital in a major city. It costs tax payers tens of thousands every day.

The final problem is that Medicare sets the standards that all doctors have to comply with. My oldest son is in his second year of residency. They are literally working him to death. He was a great kid, Eagle Scout, worked 40 hour weeks while going to college. Graduated college in three years.

In his first year of residency he saw the truth. In his internal medicine rotation he could see one patient every 30 minutes. 7-8 minutes seeing the patient, 20 minutes filling out redundant forms, required everywhere because of Medicare standards. He has 200,000 of med school debt, and now his future is being stripped from him by obamacare.

I highly advise potential premeds to think twice about going to med school. Mountains of debt, delayed income, then a mountain of government regulations, now obamacare.

I don't write this for the hard headed liberals on here. I write this for the real people who live in the real world, that really want to understand the problems.

Tell me exactly how not having health insurance at the present time that I will reap "GREAT" benefits under Obamacare. What an idiot your spouse must be!

An Obama speech about how much he cares about you "folks".

And then a rapid demise due to lack of care.

This had pretty much been my sisters experience prior to practicing. Word for word.

Better wear an Obama T-shirt and hat, like the poll officials did yesterday.

They'll go easier on you if you also get an Obama tattoo on your right hand or forehead.

My god I hope so.
All the minorities that fill up the ERs are all Obama supporters.

It makes health insurance available and more affordable for HIV patients and illegal aliens.

And the rest of us get to pay for it. Just because it says "affordable" doesn't mean "affordable for you". What, you think everything is about you?

Trying to figure out what other country to move to ...

Stabilized does not mean treated. Break an arm, they don't set it anymore, they wrap it and send you to an Orthopedic. I know, my grandson broke his 4 years ago. Cancer, you don't get chemo in the ER. Are you people really this stupid?

Hey tard, its your sister. Bring your blood test results in.

As opposed to an HMO death panel

Obamacare is destroying the medical device manufacturers in the US. They are laying off their employees and opening up overseas, where they are not taxed.

[link to www.usatoday.com]

Then there are all the elderly that will be killed to save money. The new rule is that the hospital if fined if they readmit a person on medicare within a month of them being hospitalized.

So when your mother breaks a hip, they will admit her. But then when she goes back to the hospital 3 weeks later with pneumonia, they will be fined if they admit her. Even if it's for a different problem, or at a different hospital.

So instead of getting admitted and living, she's given a prescription to take home and dies. Thanks Obama for killing Grandma!

I could go on. It's more then 2,000 pages of job, people, and Constitutional rights killing crap.

No just greedy. When you lie to cover your greed, then you sound stupid.

When asked about Obamacare, my doc said, "That s.. of a b....!" He then said as things stand now he will retire in less than 5 years. Done. He and his wife are primary care physicians that see many families and elderly people. What a huge, huge loss. These two doctors have never lived large. They spent the first several years paying off their student loans. They are just average folks trying to run a medical practice/business that Obama is quickly destroying.

lulz. Every other country has socialized medicine so good luck with that douche bag.

I feel for you and your sister. It's not just happening in the medical professions. It's all over government, finance, and education. Being a teacher, I see it on a daily basis. We must cover our bosses asses by keeping more paperwork about our students than they actually produce it seems. All to make it easy for stupid administrators and politicians to delegate what little funds are left to spend. There is no quality education anymore when all that matters is standardized test scores.

I knew a doctor in the US.He was a heart transplant doc.His malpractice premiums were 4 million dollars every year.
4 million dollars.
Want to lower medical costs? Make the government the insurer of Doctors for malpractice and limit liability for Docs.
Its that simple.

But the trial lawyers will fight you tooth and nail because that is their bread and butter.

The entire concept of health care in America is fucked.We are looking at it from the wrong perspective.
We look at it as if we can live a long time if we get the proper care. That is a fallacy.
Reality is we will all die.Doctors may be able to delay your death,or ease your pain.

Finally-start taking some responsibility for your own health,and lifestyle choices.
If you smoke you will face the consequences. If you engage in risky sex you will pay the piper(no pun). If you drink you will deal with the damage.

I do not want to sound harsh on this,but doctors are not miracle workers who save you like House does on tv.They usually just pass out drugs and medicine made by big pharma.
In a few years you may be able to get the diagnoses from an I-phone app. The actual mechanical stuff can be done after a small blood test(built in) and symptoms check.For the mechanical then you see a Doc or a nurse. Wham your health care costs just went to a 15 dollar a month app subscription.

Sounds outrageous? Its closer than you think.

WOW that's just weird!!!

Big Pharma is taking a hit as prescription drug use plumments due to the economy, et., al
[link to www.zerohedge.com]

Lots of vaccinations.