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some more misinformation (LOL!):
Texas doctors fleeing Medicare in droves | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
So, that one predates the health care reform bill, and points out a problem that needed to be fixed.More than 300 doctors have dropped the program in the last two years, including 50 in the first three months of 2010, according to data compiled by the Houston Chronicle. Texas Medical Association officials, who conducted the 2008 survey, said the numbers far exceeded their assumptions.
from that one:
“The supply of doctors can’t be increased very quickly – there’s a time lag,” he said, adding, “Is the last resort to newly covered people the emergency room? I would say that is a possibility, but I wouldn’t say anybody has a very good handle on exactly how much of an infrastructure problem there will be or exactly how it might work out.”
So it will take some time to build up enough health care professionals to put the US system on a par with other civilized nations. OK, should we start now, or wait?
From that one:
FLORENCE, S.C—Tandem forces of shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs have collided and struck a small brick ranch house in this rural town, home to Barbara Hickey.
Not sure just what that one has to do with the federal health care reform. It does point out the biggest problem with the bill that finally did get past all of the naysayers and prophets of doom: It doesn't do enough to rein in the costs of health care. There is still work to be done, a lot of it, and it probably isn't going to happen until a lot more middle class voters lose their health care. It will happen eventually, of course, and for that very reason.
ATT, Verizon, and other large companies are going to have to quit providing health insurance to retirees sooner rather than later, reform or not. It is too expensive.
Done.check out the sources, you know rush would (LOL!)
While I have to agree that the health care reform bill that finally came out of all of the hype and doomsaying about "death panels" and all that nonsense is a long, long way from what has to be done, the voices of unreason simply will not allow any meaningful reform to take place.
That health care is too expensive is an understatement, but saying that it is due to the watered down practically compromised out of existence plan that resulted from the unholy coalition of ideologues and health industry lobbyists has caused it to be too expensive is to ignore the history of attempts to bring the US medical system into the modern world.
This issue seriously needs to be revisited, but it isn't going to happen for some time now. Meanwhile, things will get worse, and the ideologues will continue to claim that the health care bill is to blame.