AS a Medicare recipient with a supplemental policy I would like to see the Medicare plan expanded along with being able to have the government negotiate drug costs. The rise in medical costs has been due to Physicians setting themselves up as corporations and setting up their own minihospitals and as a result the profit motive has taken over the medical eithics that once ruled. Doctors want their Rolls Royces and have turned the profession into an Industry. This trend needs to be stopped.
xyz
· 1 year ago
It's not the doctors, it's the insurance companies. Doctors have 4 yrs of college, 4 yrs of med school, 4+years of residency, during which they accrue debt. I don't know where you are, but doctors don't drive rolls royces.
diane
· 1 year ago
Agree! I work closely with doctors and have a daughter in medical school. After graduating, they must pay off huge school expenses incurred in medical school. In addition, the cost of malpractice insurance is outrageous. General practioners are working like dogs just break even.
Jackson
· 1 year ago
I agree that doctors are very hard working (and caring) and the debt that they carry is outrageous. So it is obvious something needs to change. The problem is that doctors and other medical professionals hate the system as it is now but they are even more fearful of the unknown. This is why this country needs a comprehensive overhaul of the funding of education, healthcare and tax policy for the middle class.
For example, one friend - a chiropractor earns too much to qualify for certain tax breaks on his student loan because he earns too much. Yet, he does not live extravagantly - he lives in a condo but the cost of living - and ironically - health insurance keeps him from really getting ahead. And he is a professional.
What about the majority of Americans who earn less than $100,000 a year? We have lived under the same healthcare system that has failed for over 30 years - how is it working for you?
Gasper
· 1 year ago
As a healthcare provider, I find it extremely insulting when people demand my services as their right. I don't necessarily agree with physicians driving "Rolls Royces," and by the way, 99% of us don't so I assume most of you are uneducated like most lazy Americans. Denise Kelley or similar posters represent the typical liberal beggar entitlement problem in the US today. She probably avoided mentioning all the years that she smoked, ate garbage, and never exercised. However, now that her body shows consequences of her poor choices, somebody else should pick up her tab.
UHC can only happen with following conditions being mandatory: 1. Doctors are given set maximum hours per week, set minimum salary adjusting with inflation and MAXimum salaries, very limited civil suit liabilities. 2. UHC must triage people based on age, comorbid conditions, and more much like the dirty insurance companies do; however, less money would be spent on paying administrative overhead under a universal system. 3. Drug ads are to be banned and people cannot request any buffet treatment. You either take it or leave it; you don't get to pick with your limited knowledge what you want done to your own body except a yes or no or just try to relieve the pain.
On a side note.... 1. STRICT immigration policies need to be in place to prevent adding to the pool of people gaining benefits from federal funding. 2. Eliminate Social Security and divert funding. You couldn't save. Well, stinks for you. You had your 70 years on this planet. Now, it's our turn. The young should not be forced into slavery taking care of seniors who can still work part-time. 3. Impose the fair tax. No income tax. Just tax everything you buy.
Jackson
· 1 year ago
Gasper:
I agree with a majority of your points except for the fair tax and Social Security. First, the fair tax is not fair. The wealthy do not purchase more than the middle class in terms of real goods. Therefore, as a percentage of income - the middle class will be forced to pay more. The "luxury" goods that the really wealthy can afford will be bought - as many are now - in countries that have little or no taxes on such items. And, as always, the wealthy will find loopholes in the system to avoid paying taxes.
Social Security - as Al Gore noted in 2000 - should stop being raided by both parties to pay for other line items. The fund would be solvent for a much longer time. Also, people earning over $200,000 should not be collecting Social Security. It was meant as a program to keep the elderly out of poverty and not as a primary retirement plan.
I do agree that young people need to be taught how to handle and invest money at a much earlier age - and hopefully by the time they retire they would earn too much to qualify for SS.
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For example, one friend - a chiropractor earns too much to qualify for certain tax breaks on his student loan because he earns too much. Yet, he does not live extravagantly - he lives in a condo but the cost of living - and ironically - health insurance keeps him from really getting ahead. And he is a professional.
What about the majority of Americans who earn less than $100,000 a year? We have lived under the same healthcare system that has failed for over 30 years - how is it working for you?
UHC can only happen with following conditions being mandatory:
1. Doctors are given set maximum hours per week, set minimum salary adjusting with inflation and MAXimum salaries, very limited civil suit liabilities.
2. UHC must triage people based on age, comorbid conditions, and more much like the dirty insurance companies do; however, less money would be spent on paying administrative overhead under a universal system.
3. Drug ads are to be banned and people cannot request any buffet treatment. You either take it or leave it; you don't get to pick with your limited knowledge what you want done to your own body except a yes or no or just try to relieve the pain.
On a side note....
1. STRICT immigration policies need to be in place to prevent adding to the pool of people gaining benefits from federal funding.
2. Eliminate Social Security and divert funding. You couldn't save. Well, stinks for you. You had your 70 years on this planet. Now, it's our turn. The young should not be forced into slavery taking care of seniors who can still work part-time.
3. Impose the fair tax. No income tax. Just tax everything you buy.
I agree with a majority of your points except for the fair tax and Social Security. First, the fair tax is not fair. The wealthy do not purchase more than the middle class in terms of real goods. Therefore, as a percentage of income - the middle class will be forced to pay more. The "luxury" goods that the really wealthy can afford will be bought - as many are now - in countries that have little or no taxes on such items. And, as always, the wealthy will find loopholes in the system to avoid paying taxes.
Social Security - as Al Gore noted in 2000 - should stop being raided by both parties to pay for other line items. The fund would be solvent for a much longer time. Also, people earning over $200,000 should not be collecting Social Security. It was meant as a program to keep the elderly out of poverty and not as a primary retirement plan.
I do agree that young people need to be taught how to handle and invest money at a much earlier age - and hopefully by the time they retire they would earn too much to qualify for SS.