Here's someone who likes the Health Care bill...

it can tell people what they think. Not any more!

AMA? What do the doctors think? Do you think they are applauding a 20% cut in their reimbursement? The doctors I am dealing with are not applauding. They say there will be fewer and fewer doctors who will treat medicare patients. They hope they can finish their careers before the job simply does not pay anymore, but wonder who will care for them in their elderly years.

They say there will be fewer and fewer doctors who will treat medicare patients.

IF your doctor spend less time with idle banter and more time looking after the patient/client he could make an extra 20% now.

Is the solution "work harder?" That will really go over well.

......... reform health care, TV ads starring "Harry and Louise" abounded.

The focus was, "Do you want the government taking over your medicne cabinet>" and the couple spent a lot of time around their kitchen table expressing their fears.

Of course, the government DID get in their medicine cabinet with medicare part F which was heralded as wonderful (though unfunded).

So Harry and Louis did a good job of scaring the public. So now a wrinkle on that scare tactic is that there will not be enough doctors to take care of us. Of course, reason says that there will be a segment that will not see medicare patients, just as there are those now that will not see Medicaid patients Ad there are a few in my area that uit accepting medicare patients seeral years ago.

Angelne

will just fold up their practices, in spite of he fact that's what they have said?

More patients, fewer doctors....

Any information you don't like is a "scare tactic" it seems.

...... what you hope is a barb.

But as you admire those who make their living shooting arrows, I reckon it is to be expected. A darned shame, though, as you have the talent to express yourself and present your views well, otherwise.

Angeline

About a week or so ago I got a visit from the parents of the 3 kids who lived across the street when I was young. One of the boys was my best friend. He got into computers, but both his brother and sister became doctors. In that visit, their parents mentioned that if the health care bill passed, both of them said that would seriously consider getting out of that line of work. I must remember ask what happened.
BTW, a close relative is a surgeon, but is retired. We have talked about that bill, and he hates it in no uncertain terms.

What "barb"?

below cost and, when asked how he can stay in business, responds with something like,

"I might lose money on each sale but I make it up on volume".

Makes perfect economic sense.

...... publications, from the get-go, and helped members to contact their Congressmen I considered the information reliable. I believe the group os very well aware of all aspects of the laws and concluded it is in the Best interest of us old folks.

The Medicare Part D was not funded when it was passed, account for some of the cost.

Angeline

I saw an interesting interview on a business show with the head of Zoll Medical. They make things like heart pumps and defibrillators. They were talking about Obama's new tax on medical devices. He said that the new tax would cost his company 7.5 million dollars a year. The problem is that last year their profit was 9 million dollars.
It makes me wonder, thinking in a purely business/profit line, might they make more profit return on their dollar in the future if they just liquidated the company and invested the money? I invested in a stock, and get about a 5% return with the dividends.