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POPSUSA Doctors – Over Testing, Over Treating & Under Sympathetic
HERE WE GO AGAIN! Another study proving doctors are over testing and over prescribing. NO SHIT! These studies pop up now and then but nothing happens to change the nefarious doctoring methods here in the good ole US of A. Maybe for a short period but then it’s business as usual. I remember a time when pediatricians’ handed out prescriptions for antibiotics to every child with a case of sniffles. As a young mother I was led to believe that if I didn’t give my child this “miracle” drug they would die. My kids had this potion pumping through their veins at least 2 or 3 times a year. Then, sometime later, it was found that this over treating was causing the antibiotics not to be so ANTI anymore and bacterials were turning into HULKS so it stopped! Nice after I raised my kids on the stuff! I’m so cynical now that I BELIEVE ‘NUTTIN HONEY’! BTW, to you teabaggers bellowing HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE. What healthcare? Oh the one that uses your body as a guinea pig to increase “THEIR” wealth?
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POPSLower Malpractice Premiums Called For By Japanese Translation Workers in Hositals
The public has suffered too not only from declining numbers of in medical staff but also from increased premiums and service fees due to safeguards that medical practitioners are requiring to guard against trouble. As a result, health care providers are increasing protecting themselves against malpractice through defensive medicine that deters patients from filing medical malpractice claims and it provides documented evidence that the practitioner is practicing according to the standard of care, so that if, in the future, legal action is initiated, liability can be pre-empted. As a heart surgeon and graduate of University of Texas law school, I frequently receive invitations to address associations throughout Texas. When it comes to malpractice, nearly any worker in the medical professional can be found guilty but it generally entails those in a private practice. Even in my side business that involves Medical Translation, I must insist in ongoing training programs for my translators wh
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POPSThe ‘Costs’ of Medical Care by Thomas Sowell NRO
countries where the medical training may not be the best. In short, reducing doctors’ income is not reducing the cost of medical care, it is refusing to pay those costs. Like other ways of refusing to pay costs, it has consequences. Any one of us can reduce medical costs by refusing to pay them. In our own lives, we recognize the consequences. But when someone with a gift for rhetoric tells us that the government can reduce the costs without consequences, we are ready to believe in such political miracles. There are some ways in which the real costs of medical care can be reduced, but the people who are leading the charge for a government takeover of medical care are not the least bit interested in actually reducing those costs, as distinguished from shifting the costs around or just refusing to pay them. The high costs of “defensive medicine” " expensive tests, medications, and procedures required to protect doctors and hospitals from ruinous lawsuits, rather than
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POPSThe internal contradictions of ObamaCare Another major difference is that medical school is free in places like France. Here, doctors go to work with truly crushing med school debt that take years to pay down. Its hardly fair that they invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in their education and could now be told they can’t expect the ‘doctor’ type compensation we’re used to seeing.
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POPSReform Health care doesn't need to be reformed. The tax code, yes, allow people to purchase their own health insurance. Tort law, yes, reform it so doctors don't have to practice defensive medicine.
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POPSThe Real Issue: Who Should Control HealthCare? You Or Washington These areas are primarily marginal fixes to the current health care system and do not entail a major restructuring. Reforms where there may be common ground include: subsidizing low income American citizens and legal residents; requiring all Americans to have health care insurance; reform of medical malpractice tort system; permitting inter-state competition among health insurers; portability of insurance; and promoting healthy lifestyles. Obviously, the devil will be in the details of crafting these reforms. If the real issue of reform was to reduce the overall cost of medical care in America, the health care reform debate would center on medical malpractice tort law, promoting healthy lifestyles and dealing with the high end of life costs. Medical malpractice insurance and defensive medicine account for approximately 18 percent of health care costs. Obesity accounts for approximately 9 percent. Alcoholism and smoking account for another large percent.
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POPSConservatives Plan: Putting Patients First! It also expands the individual market by creating several pooling mechanisms. #3: Improve the Health Care Delivery Structure Physicians know the best care for their patient. That's why this legislation establishes doctor-led quality measures, ensuring that you get the quality care you need. It also reimburses physicians to ensure the stability of your care, and encourages healthier lifestyles by allowing employers to offer discounts for healthy habits through wellness and prevention programs. #4: Rein in Out-of-Control Costs A key concern in positive reform is reining in out-of control costs. This legislation does this by reforming the medical liability system. Also, the cost of the plan is completely offset through decreasing defensive medicine, savings from health care efficiencies, sifting out waste, fraud and abuse, plus an annual one-percent non defense discretionary spending step down.
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POPSBecause It's Always Been About Him . . . weight - at the hands of Democrats It's the Blue Dog Democrats in the House who wince at skyrocketing health-reform costs just weeks after having swallowed hemlock for 0bama on a ruinous cap-and-trade carbon tax. He seized on Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's comment that stopping 0bama on health care would break his presidency to protest, with perfect disingenuousness, that "this isn't about me. This isn't about politics. "It's all about him. Health care is his signature reform. He knows that if he produces nothing, he forfeits the mystique that both propelled him to the presidency and has sustained him through a difficult first six months. Which is why 0bama's red lines are constantly shifting. Universal coverage? Maybe not. No middle-class tax hit? Well, perhaps, but only if they don't "primarily" bear the burden. Because it's about him , 0bama is quite prepared to sign anything as long as it is titled "health care reform."
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