tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post2246765289041907145..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: On the President's Health Care AddressDrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-25943406278086739082009-09-15T11:41:59.843-05:002009-09-15T11:41:59.843-05:00Anony 10:42PM-
I must be really dumb to think tha...Anony 10:42PM-<br /><br />I must be really dumb to think that 100,000 - $250,000 malpractice premiums for doctors who have never been sued don’t affect the cost of health care delivered to patients. Worse, 83% of doctors polled in Massachusetts must also be dumb when they admit they have ordered unnecessary tests to avoid liability concerns – certainly this doesn’t affect the cost of health careDrWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-28742478544530787822009-09-14T22:42:31.113-05:002009-09-14T22:42:31.113-05:00"More importantly for doctors, there was the ..."More importantly for doctors, there was the issue of medical malpractice reform"<br /><br />That fact that you believe this was an "important" thing for doctors just shows how lost physicians are in this whole process. <br /><br />Look, if it's not obvious by now that tort reform doesn't save a dime in healthcare dollars, then you're either being willfully blind Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-54763790837483207692009-09-10T15:24:35.533-05:002009-09-10T15:24:35.533-05:00Cerberus -
If hospitals offered a money-back gua...Cerberus - <br /><br />If hospitals offered a money-back guarantee, what hospitals would take the difficult cases?<br /><br />This reminds me of the hospitals with excellent health grades in say, cardiac care. Of course, the surgeons only take ideal cases.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the university hospital across town takes the hard cases that other hospitals won't even try.<br /><br />Do you Tom Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291404904437933272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-77353928757163530572009-09-10T12:57:04.564-05:002009-09-10T12:57:04.564-05:00Wes,
I thought it was a wonderful speech and well...Wes,<br /><br />I thought it was a wonderful speech and well articulated on all points. I will agree that the malpractice comments were vague and I find it puzzling, but politically clear, why malpractice reform is not on the table. It belies the political jibberish the administration has been offering that we need to have all the pieces of health reform in order to constrain costs (usually theKeithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-40492355415785461212009-09-10T12:26:41.545-05:002009-09-10T12:26:41.545-05:00If hospitals offered money back guarantees, we wou...If hospitals offered money back guarantees, we wouldn't have a liability problem in health care! Even if they completely screw you up, they still keep the money. Lawsuits are the only way people can get justice. <br /> http://devilsdustbin.blogspot.com/The Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13657232525776370998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-21032250891010941342009-09-10T09:20:50.381-05:002009-09-10T09:20:50.381-05:00The fraud in Medicare is rampant, look at the stat...The fraud in Medicare is rampant, look at the state of Florida where millions in fraud is announced on a regular basis. <br /><br />As for malpractice reform how much time would have been enough? This was a broad based policy speech about health care reform not about tort reform.Kate Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206211317259911330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-50923350429519351212009-09-10T08:52:53.352-05:002009-09-10T08:52:53.352-05:00Our seniors are neither so smart nor knowledgeable...Our seniors are neither so smart nor knowledgeable as you might think; and perhaps you shouldn't "pass by" political articles in medical publications like NEJM.<br /><br />The issue I find compelling is the June 10th Perspective entitled: Finding Money for Health Care Reform — Rooting Out Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.<br /><br />This article shows the enormous amounts of fraud in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-24741214502559014442009-09-10T06:55:10.920-05:002009-09-10T06:55:10.920-05:00The future is in the builtinout. When he stated t...The future is in the builtinout. When he stated that no one here illegally would benefit from his plan, he was giving us a hint of what is to come - "immigration reform". And if he grants legal status in some form to all the illegals here now, then they would qualify for free healthcare wouldn't they?Chuck Thompsonhttp://www.chuck-thompson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-1208756890860608462009-09-10T00:08:29.702-05:002009-09-10T00:08:29.702-05:00Some feed on the drama while others call it distra...Some feed on the drama while others call it distraction.<br /><br />In the end, Americans - doctors, policymakers, supporters and opponents alike - for better or worse (wise or foolish) will decide the fate of the reform.<br /><br />--------------------------------<br /><br />"After the speech, Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff who sat a few rows in front of Mr. Wilson, said he Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com