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Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Thu Aug 5 20:56:02 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Kerry & Edwards & Tort Reform??????" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" In reply to: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" Next in thread: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" Reply: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" Now here I'm not so sure. I'm actually becoming quite fond of Medicaid and Medicare, at least in comparison with the multitudes of other insurance companies we deal with. The thought of dealing with only one payor and not having to deal with multiple and constantly-changing formularies, different and constantly-changing rules, policies for prior approvals, fines for violating rules that I was never told existed, providers and facilities that are covered one day and not the next (not to mention group practices where only SOME of the providers are covered, and the one who just went on call tonight is not one of them.) If we only had one payor to deal with, maybe my nurses could get back to nursing instead of spending the entire day on hold on the phone. That said, I'm still not sure I can vote democrat this year, since Kerry chose Edwards as his vp. At the moment, I'm not even sure who I'm going to vote for for Senator. I'd like to keep a Republican in the open seat in the hopes of eventually getting decent liability reform, but here in Illinois we're having trouble finding one. If any of you know anyone who might be interested in running, have them contact Judy Barr Topinka in Springfield. Current residence in Illinois not required, as long as they agree to move here before Nov 2. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Rafael Haciski wrote: > >--Apple-Mail-1--390716699 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > format=flowed > >Come on! All you have to do is look at Medicare, Medicaid, VA system, >the Post office, to see how inefficient and messed up the GOVERNMENT >system is. You really can not in all seriousness support a team that >has made its fortunes on suing obstetricians for bad outcomes, and who >will continue to milk the system to their (and their cohorts') >advantage. > >Yes the republicans are also bad, but on the relative badness scale, >they are preferable to the Dems. What we need is an effort to alter >the system independent of which party is in force. But to be dealing >with the government as a payor is unacceptable. > >-- >Rafael C. Haciski MD FACOG >Bradenton FL > >--Apple-Mail-1--390716699 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Type: text/enriched; > charset=US-ASCII > >On Aug 5, 2004, at 14:37, David Priver, MD wrote: > ><excerpt>As to Kerry and > >Edwards bringing in government funded health care for all, we'd all be a > >lot better off if that happened. > ></excerpt> > >Come on! All you have to do is look at Medicare, Medicaid, VA system, >the Post office, to see how inefficient and messed up the GOVERNMENT >system is. You really can not in all seriousness support a team that >has made its fortunes on suing obstetricians for bad outcomes, and >who will continue to milk the system to their (and their cohorts') >advantage. > >Yes the republicans are also bad, but on the relative badness scale, >they are preferable to the Dems. What we need is an effort to alter >the system independent of which party is in force. But to be dealing >with the government as a payor is unacceptable. > ><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Rafael C. Haciski MD FACOG > >Bradenton FL > ></fontfamily> >--Apple-Mail-1--390716699-- > Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Kerry & Edwards & Tort Reform??????" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" In reply to: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" Next in thread: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform" Reply: Rafael Haciski: "Re: Kerry/Edwards Tort Reform"

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