tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post419674601277945874..comments2024-03-22T17:05:55.267-04:00Comments on MD Whistleblower: The Health Care Reform Summit: ‘Breaking News’ or a TV Rerun?Michael Kirsch, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-51849054376101867742010-03-06T16:39:15.157-05:002010-03-06T16:39:15.157-05:00To anonymous, regrettably, this issue is outside o...To anonymous, regrettably, this issue is outside of his jurisdiction.Michael Kirsch, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-47042987337345147012010-03-06T12:31:58.073-05:002010-03-06T12:31:58.073-05:00speaking of legal reform, any chance your brother ...speaking of legal reform, any chance your brother will work on changing the judicial hellhole that is new jersey for the better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-24993126134670021382010-03-04T16:24:48.366-05:002010-03-04T16:24:48.366-05:00Dr. K,
Today I read this piece of writing while a...Dr. K,<br /><br />Today I read this piece of writing while at home where I could take my time and read it word for word.<br /><br />Thank you for being my brother. I am in awe of how your thoughts talk on a tablet .<br /><br />Bravo to Roberto!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-57225349646250764412010-03-04T14:39:08.669-05:002010-03-04T14:39:08.669-05:00Amazes me how many commenters, here + elsewhere, b...Amazes me how many commenters, here + elsewhere, believe they are entitled to the labor and knowledge of another human being. <br /><br />A transaction should be free of coercion so that a willing buyer and a willing seller agree. <br /><br />Where is all this demand for services from others, regardless of the cost (not just monetary) coming from? It is really disappointing.Evinxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-39098797190267860142010-03-01T16:44:37.104-05:002010-03-01T16:44:37.104-05:00Doctors were only too happy to take the government...Doctors were only too happy to take the government's money when Medicare started, because they got the assurance of getting paid. Now hat the gravy train is ending, they don't want the government anywhere near medicine. Well, except they do want the government to take over jury trials involving medicine.<br /><br />Physicians are nothing if not intellectually inconsistent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-70196094334728567442010-02-28T14:00:17.177-05:002010-02-28T14:00:17.177-05:00Examples abound of people having no problems with ...Examples abound of people having no problems with health insurance: in fact, every other industrialized nation has solved this problem that so far has stumped the US.LeisureGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962143066390145440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-77021702923557591422010-02-28T12:44:56.601-05:002010-02-28T12:44:56.601-05:00Dr. Kirsch,
Thank you for continuing to shine a li...Dr. Kirsch,<br />Thank you for continuing to shine a light on this. I didn't see the summit but you confirmed my worst fears about it. Why can't they think in terms of what this is doing to people instead of which party "wins" or "loses." <br /><br />I had a series of five surgeries for some very stubborn DCIS that tallied up to just under $83k. I would have been taking out a second mortgage if I didn't have health insurance. Think of all the people who don't have insurance and already have a second mortage or don't own a home. I wonder what this cost scenario would look like if the insurance landscape were different. That's what needs reforming--the health care I received was stellar.Jackie Foxhttp://secondbasedispatch.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-82111329037757370142010-02-28T10:03:03.959-05:002010-02-28T10:03:03.959-05:00"Forcing things through" by simple major..."Forcing things through" by simple majority vote has long been the practice in the House---and reconciliation was used quite frequently by the GOP. (I should look back and read your posts objecting to that.) And, of course, the Senate already passed the healthcare reform bill; what would be "forced through" with reconciliation would be the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills.<br /><br />I thought the GOP did not have any answers to the problem of "pre-existing conditions" as a way for health insurers to deny coverage, nor an answer to the millions of uninsured.<br /><br />I think the bill will become law, and the incremental work will be in fixing it as we go on---as the Medicare donut hole was finally fixed (by this legislation). <br /><br />All polls show that people like the individual provisions of the bill.LeisureGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962143066390145440noreply@blogger.com