Healthcare. Yes this subject again.

[SK in CV]

Recent polling shows that most physicians support reform, and a public option (or even stronger) in a wider margin than the general public.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112818960

Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That’s the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they’d like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.

When the American public is polled, anywhere from 50 to 70 percent favor a public option. So that means that when compared to their patients, doctors are bigger supporters of a public option.

[Hobie]

I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.

[Hobie]

I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.

[Hobie]

I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.

[Hobie]

I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.

[Hobie]

I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Hobie]I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.[/quote]

If you can identify bias in the polling data, I invite you to do so.

Most all doctors (with only minor exceptions) already deal with a government payer, medicare. Most physicians can’t avoid it anymore than they can avoid dealing with private insurance.

Anectdotally, most, in my experience, (as an advisor to scores of MD’s over the last 30 years) are quite content dealing with the government as a third party payer, at least as content as they are with private insurance.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Hobie]I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.[/quote]

If you can identify bias in the polling data, I invite you to do so.

Most all doctors (with only minor exceptions) already deal with a government payer, medicare. Most physicians can’t avoid it anymore than they can avoid dealing with private insurance.

Anectdotally, most, in my experience, (as an advisor to scores of MD’s over the last 30 years) are quite content dealing with the government as a third party payer, at least as content as they are with private insurance.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Hobie]I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.[/quote]

If you can identify bias in the polling data, I invite you to do so.

Most all doctors (with only minor exceptions) already deal with a government payer, medicare. Most physicians can’t avoid it anymore than they can avoid dealing with private insurance.

Anectdotally, most, in my experience, (as an advisor to scores of MD’s over the last 30 years) are quite content dealing with the government as a third party payer, at least as content as they are with private insurance.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Hobie]I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.[/quote]

If you can identify bias in the polling data, I invite you to do so.

Most all doctors (with only minor exceptions) already deal with a government payer, medicare. Most physicians can’t avoid it anymore than they can avoid dealing with private insurance.

Anectdotally, most, in my experience, (as an advisor to scores of MD’s over the last 30 years) are quite content dealing with the government as a third party payer, at least as content as they are with private insurance.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Hobie]I dunno. May not be an unbiased sample.

IF this gets pushed through my money is on docs forming boutique private practices combining several specialities to serve a small group of local patients who, like the docs, don’t want to deal with the govn’t system.[/quote]

If you can identify bias in the polling data, I invite you to do so.

Most all doctors (with only minor exceptions) already deal with a government payer, medicare. Most physicians can’t avoid it anymore than they can avoid dealing with private insurance.

Anectdotally, most, in my experience, (as an advisor to scores of MD’s over the last 30 years) are quite content dealing with the government as a third party payer, at least as content as they are with private insurance.

[meadandale]

A friend of mine is an ENT out in Arizona and he’s adamantly opposed to everything that Obama and the clowns in the house are proposing.

I know several other physicians that feel the same way. I don’t know who these people are that they polled but that viewpoint sure isn’t represented by any of the physicians that *I* know.

There’s a data point for you…;-)

[meadandale]

A friend of mine is an ENT out in Arizona and he’s adamantly opposed to everything that Obama and the clowns in the house are proposing.

I know several other physicians that feel the same way. I don’t know who these people are that they polled but that viewpoint sure isn’t represented by any of the physicians that *I* know.

There’s a data point for you…;-)

[meadandale]

A friend of mine is an ENT out in Arizona and he’s adamantly opposed to everything that Obama and the clowns in the house are proposing.

I know several other physicians that feel the same way. I don’t know who these people are that they polled but that viewpoint sure isn’t represented by any of the physicians that *I* know.

There’s a data point for you…;-)

[meadandale]

A friend of mine is an ENT out in Arizona and he’s adamantly opposed to everything that Obama and the clowns in the house are proposing.

I know several other physicians that feel the same way. I don’t know who these people are that they polled but that viewpoint sure isn’t represented by any of the physicians that *I* know.

There’s a data point for you…;-)

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