How do you know he's a GOOD physician, or even a physician. MAybe he has a "Medicaid/Medicaire factory" for a practice and wants more patients.
He could just be a political hack making up that rant and his UNSCIENTIFIC approach to extrapolating his data to "other doctors" he doesn't even know. <<"Take my experiences and multiply them 700,000 times for the number of physicians in this country and you arrive at a lot more than 45,000 deaths a year due to lack of insurance.">>

BS, unscientific approach "Doctor".

Ya know, you can't fix 100% of anything no matter how much you tax the rich. I also work in the health care field and I say it should remain in the private sector. Fix the medicaire f...

How do you know he's a GOOD physician, or even a physician. MAybe he has a "Medicaid/Medicaire factory" for a practice and wants more patients.
He could just be a political hack making up that rant and his UNSCIENTIFIC approach to extrapolating his data to "other doctors" he doesn't even know. <<"Take my experiences and multiply them 700,000 times for the number of physicians in this country and you arrive at a lot more than 45,000 deaths a year due to lack of insurance.">>

BS, unscientific approach "Doctor".

Ya know, you can't fix 100% of anything no matter how much you tax the rich. I also work in the health care field and I say it should remain in the private sector. Fix the medicaire fraud ( which is the GOVERNMENTS fault). Fix up medicaid fraud. Making an entirely brand new system would be a DISASTER. It would be utter chaos, an adminisrative armageddon. As Ben Stein said, "Give the poor money to buy a bare-bone health insurance plan and "LEAVE THE REST OF US THE HELL ALONE".

Think about it. Brand new agencies, rules, forms problems, beaurocratic SNAFUs. New email addresses, phone numbers, contact persons. New trainees who won't know the new system, peolpe who NEVER worked in helath care running programs they know nothing about and WORST of all,OBAMA and the rest of the left wingers in charge. A FRICKIN DISASTER IN THE MAKING.
PHYSICIANS< NURSES<NPs<PAs leaving the field in droves because it's not worth it anymore... A new generation of lesser qualified applicants in school to take their place. The future is bleak if they pass it, I promise you.

Righty, around here there's another definition of troll at play... somebody who creates an account and comes in with guns blazing. We've all seen it. Many are suspect that said user may well be an established user just creating another outlet for bilge, never to be heard from again. Whether or not that is the case, at this moment you fall right in line with that mode of operation. Generally those of you your ilk aren't worth the time to respond, but since you really put your foot in it I just thought I'd be nice.

As to the credentials of the clipped author, which you question, had you taken the time to READ THE CLIPPED SOURCE...

Dr. Deb Richter practices family medicine in ...

Righty, around here there's another definition of troll at play... somebody who creates an account and comes in with guns blazing. We've all seen it. Many are suspect that said user may well be an established user just creating another outlet for bilge, never to be heard from again. Whether or not that is the case, at this moment you fall right in line with that mode of operation. Generally those of you your ilk aren't worth the time to respond, but since you really put your foot in it I just thought I'd be nice.

As to the credentials of the clipped author, which you question, had you taken the time to READ THE CLIPPED SOURCE...

Dr. Deb Richter practices family medicine in Montpelier, Vt., and is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org). She can be reached at mproj@progressive.org">pmproj@progressive.org.

A short glance at the PNHP site verifies her position as a past president. If you want to waste your time and look like an even bigger fool than you already do, claim that the PNHP is just a shill site not representing a real group of dedicated professionals.

So, get a grip, dude. Be more than a rightytighty kneejerk. We don't have many if any around here on that side of the persuasion who are. My hopes, however, aren't very high.

I always find it telling how impressed people are by the number of degrees they have attained, and that they expect each of us to be equally impressed when they trot out the score card, particularly when they are in pique of frustration that we don't bow to their otherwise unsubstantiated and contrary if not irrational opinion of the topic at hand. In this case, righty has questioned the veracity of the clipped source's author, but expects us to be beholden to suddenly produced degrees at the drop of a key-clack. I'd call that bad form. Had you built some kind of credibility through rational discussion or substantial critical analysis of the points made as opposed to the mere off the cuff ar...

I always find it telling how impressed people are by the number of degrees they have attained, and that they expect each of us to be equally impressed when they trot out the score card, particularly when they are in pique of frustration that we don't bow to their otherwise unsubstantiated and contrary if not irrational opinion of the topic at hand. In this case, righty has questioned the veracity of the clipped source's author, but expects us to be beholden to suddenly produced degrees at the drop of a key-clack. I'd call that bad form. Had you built some kind of credibility through rational discussion or substantial critical analysis of the points made as opposed to the mere off the cuff arithmetic used to illustrate a potential, perhaps we'd be more open to your stance, but you lost that quite a while back.

I used to do business with a fellow who was a CPA, with not only an MBA but a PhD. as well. He was about as far up to the top of his game as he could be. In conversation when I made a comment in deference to his alphabet soup of achievement, his reply was that all the degrees meant was that he had at some point passed a test, which really meant little, but that the true test was "what have you done lately". How have you applied that knowledge constructively and positively in the interest and service of your fellow man?

While I'm not going to assail righty as a failure on that count, I will say that your bedside manner leaves me cold, and were I in your care you wouldn't inspire much confidence in me if all you could do was point to your degree and say "BELIEVE ME!"

So, rant all you want, but understand while your skills may be many and learned, your persuasiveness in your position is piss poor.

Well done, Bartending Bear. You've attracted the highest percentage of right-wing, propaganda-spewing trolls of any of the recent posts on Clipmarks. That's an excellent indication that what you posted is important and totally relevant to the current issue at hand.

Oh, and about Emergency rooms? Maybe they can't turn you away, but they can charge you after the fact, sending collection agents after you, bankrupting you without mercy and utterly destroying any credit rating you might have. Why do you think so many uninsured people leave after only getting partial treatment because they know that the overpriced bill will destroy them financially?

If you want to know the truth about what a lac...

Well done, Bartending Bear. You've attracted the highest percentage of right-wing, propaganda-spewing trolls of any of the recent posts on Clipmarks. That's an excellent indication that what you posted is important and totally relevant to the current issue at hand.

Oh, and about Emergency rooms? Maybe they can't turn you away, but they can charge you after the fact, sending collection agents after you, bankrupting you without mercy and utterly destroying any credit rating you might have. Why do you think so many uninsured people leave after only getting partial treatment because they know that the overpriced bill will destroy them financially?

If you want to know the truth about what a lack of universal healthcare does to people, you go to the doctors. That's not statistics; that's putting faces on the numbers. That's cold, hard facts. That's many millions of people who would be alive in America today if it had Universal Healthcare.

In short; Privatized Healthcare is killing more people in America than all the terrorist attacks in the world in recorded history. So why aren't you screaming at your government to protect you from deadly, heartless capitalism?