Reuters: 59% of Doctors Support Lowering Health Care Standards

According to Reuters, more than half of this nation’s doctors are in favor of nationalized health care. If the Doctors are willing to captitulate, it is only a matter of time before our health care system goes the way of Canada and Great Britain. Long waiting lists for procedures, managed care to the point that procedures are denied because of the viability of the patient etc… are all in our future.

From Reuters:

More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea, according to a survey published on Monday.

Of more than 2,000 doctors surveyed, 59 percent said they support legislation to establish a national health insurance program, while 32 percent said they opposed it, researchers reported in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

The 2002 survey found that 49 percent of physicians supported national health insurance and 40 percent opposed it.

Way back in 1993 when Hillary was holding back room meetings on health care and the DemCong of that time decided that another viable plan wasn’t worthy of consideration in favor of the plan Hillary hatched in her smoky back room meetings. Sen. Robert Dole (R KS) developed a plan that would encourage greater competition in the insurance industry. By eliminating the state boundaries that the industry is currently restricted with, risk could be spread out nation wide and encourage competition in the industry. Companies would have to compete with more competitors and rates would plummet. Who wins? The consumer.

We don’t need a single payer system where the government is the payer. Doctors believe if we moved to a nationalized system, they’d get paid faster because more people would actually be covered. WRONG!

The government is notoriously slow in paying monies owed. Doubt me? Answer one question. How long did it take for you to get a refund on your over-paid taxes?

Ask yourself another question. Do you want the same government which manages the United States Postal Service managing your health care? I mean, the USPS is the most efficiently run organization in the world right? [Sarcasm Alert]

Medicaid and Medicare haven’t been such a success to this point so by all means, why don’t we add to the ranks of those who receive their primary health coverage from the federal government.

If doctors think that they will be able to live the lifestyles that they currently live under a nationalized health care system, they are sadly mistaken. The government won’t “negotiate” fees for services, they will dictate them. Doctors will likely have to punch a time clock and be paid some substandard wage. No incentive to be a good physician will lead to mediocrity. Then one day we wake up and we’ll have Canada’s failed system here. There is a reason why many Canadians come to the United States and pay cash for health services, and it’s not because their system is efficient and quality. It is because people have to wait 6 months to a year to have a procedure done.

So by all means, let’s nationalize our health care system and put it in the dumper with the post office. [More Sarcasm? You Betcha!]

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