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Re: NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com) Fri Jun 26 12:06:17 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: New subject line:NL" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: New subject line:NL" In reply to: Terry J DuBose: "NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care" Agree. Who runs the health care system now? It is surely not the doctors. The insurance companies call the shots and have done more than their share to ruin health care. I am not so sure the government can do much worse. Perhaps they will learn from the mistakes of the other countries with nationalized medicine. I truly am not a pessimist but I think the chances of the "doctor" having regaining control of medicine is long gone and not likely to be regained. We may be able to exert some political force in tort reform and possibly get a fair reimbursement for medicare/medicaid. IMHO > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:54:15 -0500 > From: DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu > To: ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net > Subject: NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care > > That all depends on your definition, as Andrew pointed out. How much > would it be worth to not have to beg for reimbursement from insurance > companies, and if the legal liability issues were reduced to a bare > minimum? > > All of the health care organizational cards have been thrown into the > air and how they are arranged as the fall back to the ground is now > being designed. It would be much better if we all worked for a real > health care system, and quit running around crying that the "socialists > are coming, the socialist are coming." > > The last time that happened the insurance corporations gobbled it all up > while everyone was watching Harry and Louise advertisements and wringing > their hands... now we have corporate bean-counters telling patients > which preferred providers they can see and telling physicians which > exams and therapies they cannot order. In spite of the video clip Art > just posted... in my mind I just substitute "insurance corporation" for > "government." > > Peace, Terry > > At Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Meenan, Anna wrote: > > > >Who got very rich? I sure didn't. > > > >Anna Meenan, MD > > -- > Peace, Terry J DuBose, MS, RDMS > Little Rock, Arkansas USA rial_Storage_062009 Next message: Andrew Folley: "Re: New subject line:NL" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: New subject line:NL" In reply to: Terry J DuBose: "NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: NotEL - President's Wed night address on health care"

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