Doctors and Universal Healthcare Survey
So I heard on Rush, while coming home from the doctor, that a survey would be released today saying that 1/2 of all doctors want Universal Health Care. This sounded shockingly untrue so I came home and googled it. So there has been a survey released today. Here is the "big" news according to Reuters:
Well, I have serious doubts about the veracity of this statement. First of all it was done in 2002 in Indiana. What took so long to get the results out? Oh, thats right an election. Secondly, I also don't believe that these 2,000 doctors out of Indiana are representative of the 800,000 in the US. I find it boggling. Will Universal Health Care really fix the problems facing doctors today. Isn't Oregon one of the states that malpractice insurance for OBGYN's is so high that they are leaving the state? I think this would just make it harder for doctors to make a living and pay for insurance.
That is separate to the issue of patient care. If choice wasn't positive we would all choose to be on the existing Universal Health Care system, Medicare. Then look at Canada. If Universal Health Care is so great why do people cross the border to come here? We must be doing something right medically because people from all over the world come here to be treated for serious illnesses. It is the fact that medicine is a private industry that motivates and pays for medical research. It is also the private industry aspect that enables us pick and choose our doctors, our hospitals, and encourages speed of service that isn't seen in countries with Universal Health Care.
Well, that is my rambling on this. What do you all think?
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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.
Well, I have serious doubts about the veracity of this statement. First of all it was done in 2002 in Indiana. What took so long to get the results out? Oh, thats right an election. Secondly, I also don't believe that these 2,000 doctors out of Indiana are representative of the 800,000 in the US. I find it boggling. Will Universal Health Care really fix the problems facing doctors today. Isn't Oregon one of the states that malpractice insurance for OBGYN's is so high that they are leaving the state? I think this would just make it harder for doctors to make a living and pay for insurance.
That is separate to the issue of patient care. If choice wasn't positive we would all choose to be on the existing Universal Health Care system, Medicare. Then look at Canada. If Universal Health Care is so great why do people cross the border to come here? We must be doing something right medically because people from all over the world come here to be treated for serious illnesses. It is the fact that medicine is a private industry that motivates and pays for medical research. It is also the private industry aspect that enables us pick and choose our doctors, our hospitals, and encourages speed of service that isn't seen in countries with Universal Health Care.
Well, that is my rambling on this. What do you all think?
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posted by NerdMom at
2:28 PM
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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.
The opening sentence makes it sound like the poll was nationwide, IMO. I think 2,000 doctors is too limited a sample, and consumer opinion is at least as important as a 'professional' opinion.
These kinds of polls are used in strange ways. When a majority support a conservative stance on an issue, the left screams bloody murder, and then vice/versa. How much weight should one give to a survey or poll when those polled might not be privy to all the facts and repercussions of the subject they are answering?
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Anonymous, at 11:38 AM
Hey dumbass, the survey you mentioned from 2002 was mentioned in the reuters article. That survery said 49 to 40 in favor of a national health insurance plan.
The survery taken recently found the number to be 59 percent in favor of a national health insurance plan while only 32% were opposed.
Considering that Indiana is a conservative, rural state, I imagine those percentages would be even higher in places like New York and California where health insurance paperwork is drowning doctors.
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Anonymous, at 6:50 PM
Try asking military doctors if they think that socialized medicine is so great. The ones I knew during my time as an Army wife couldn't wait until their service obligation was over so they could get out and start making the big bucks as a private practitioner.
And "anonymous", there's no need for insults. If you cannot make a persuasive argument in favor of your position without resorting to calling your opponent names, then you are the one who comes off looking foolish...
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Crimson Wife, at 9:09 AM
My dad is an ultrasonographer. He was working at a hospital in Melborne, FL and one day a man came into the ER who had been in an accident. He had a leg that was very badly hurt and the doctors and nurses spent hours working to save this man's leg. My dad was there doing ultrasounds on the leg to see if there was blood flow and another lady who was a nurse and from England said to him that she was amazed at all the doctors were doing to save this man's leg. In England, they would have just cut it off because it's too expensive to do all that work to save it. They have universal healthcare in England. Sounds like a real winner to me.
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Joanna, at 10:01 AM
My husband is a Navy physician for what that is worth.
What the survey showed is NOT that most doctors want socialized medicine, what is showed is that most doctors want everyone to have insurance-coverage.
Deregulating the insurance industry would allow folks to shop for policies that cover what they need coverage for, not platinum plans with state mandates for everything under the sun (think gastric bypass and sex-change operations) that cost a fortune in premimums.
Doctors are tired of seeing the middle class patients get screwed by not being rich enough to just stroke a check or poor enough to have the govt. pay, they want them to have coverage too.
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kat, at 8:58 AM
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