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Have a look at what "Dr." Price (great name, considering) has in store for you

He's more of an opportunistic ego-driven profit-seeker with an MD than an actual physician. He's one of those guys who decided to go to medical school with $ signs in his eyes not because he felt any desire to devote his skills to people's health. Then he decided to parlay that into a political sinecure.

You forgot to mention his years of training and education, internships and residencies, accumulating mountains of student loans debts, 20 years of running an orthopedic clinic in Atlanta, and his years as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Emory University. But why doesn't that little oversight surprise me?
 
True - and since Ocare - employers who were faced with larger and larger premiums had to stop covering spouses of employees and their children. How did that benefit anyone?

Sorry Eva, what you have posted is not true. We've had an era of lower premium hikes that employers pay. Companies never had to offer spouse or children insurance. Now healthcare has to be offered to children. So you're posting as fact things you've imagined or read in a lying editorial.

And for you ask "how did that benefit anyone" is just pathetic. somehow 20 million people benefiting from Obamacare has escaped your attention. And all Americans have benefitted from a lower deficit and higher quality care. anyhoo, here's some info you

The $18,142 average family premium in 2016 is 20% higher than the average family premium in 2011 and 58% higher than the average family premium in 2006 (Exhibit 1.11) and (Exhibit 1.16). The 20% family premium growth in the last five years is smaller than the 31% growth between 2006 and 2011, or the 63% premium growth between 2001 and 2006 (Exhibit 1.16).

EHBS 2016 – Section One: Cost of Health Insurance – 8905 | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

2001 to 2011 saw a 113% increase in premiums. 20% over 5 years looks like a substantial benefit to me.
 
You forgot to mention his years of training and education, internships and residencies, accumulating mountains of student loans debts, 20 years of running an orthopedic clinic in Atlanta, and his years as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Emory University. But why doesn't that little oversight surprise me?

Yes, all those years of training and the burden of debt (exactly where's your evidence that he was left with "mountains of student debts) which makes him no different than all other physicians. What makes him "standout" is how he parlayed his MD into a money grubbing political machine. He's by no means alone in that category he was definitely one of the more egregious ones. But that doesn't even begin to tell the story of his deficiencies as a physician. I wonder if you knew he ascribed to the nut-case ideas that vaccines cause autism and a myriad of other crackpot notions. Here's the documentation (knowing full well that you'll reject actual facts):
Tom Price Belongs to a Really Scary Medical Organization -- Science of Us

One of the most bizarre ideas this crackpot group of Randian "doctors" believe is that it's immoral and evil for physicians to participate in providing health care to the poor. From the same article:
The AAPS statement of principles declares that it is “evil” and “immoral” for physicians to participate in Medicare and Medicaid, and its journal is a repository for quackery.

Doctors like Price are even at odds with the definitely-not-ever-and-certainly-still-not-liberal AMA on many medical practices. Naive people such as yourself somehow believe the medical profession isn't like every other profession with it's opportunists, it's grifters and it's crackpots. Wake up.
 
Yes, all those years of training and the burden of debt (exactly where's your evidence that he was left with "mountains of student debts) which makes him no different than all other physicians. What makes him "standout" is how he parlayed his MD into a money grubbing political machine. He's by no means alone in that category he was definitely one of the more egregious ones. But that doesn't even begin to tell the story of his deficiencies as a physician. I wonder if you knew he ascribed to the nut-case ideas that vaccines cause autism and a myriad of other crackpot notions. Here's the documentation (knowing full well that you'll reject actual facts):
Tom Price Belongs to a Really Scary Medical Organization -- Science of Us

One of the most bizarre ideas this crackpot group of Randian "doctors" believe is that it's immoral and evil for physicians to participate in providing health care to the poor. From the same article:


Doctors like Price are even at odds with the definitely-not-ever-and-certainly-still-not-liberal AMA on many medical practices. Naive people such as yourself somehow believe the medical profession isn't like every other profession with it's opportunists, it's grifters and it's crackpots. Wake up.

Where's your evidence that someone else paid for his college and medical school? According to your friends on the left, college leaves you with a burden of debt.

Anti-vaxxers are crazy. I've said that repeatedly. It still doesn't explain why you put "Dr." in quotes as if he wasn't a doctor. And it still doesn't explain why you know zero about the man you've chosen to attack.
 
Where's your evidence that someone else paid for his college and medical school? According to your friends on the left, college leaves you with a burden of debt.
You're the one who claimed he went into huge debt without a smidgen of evidence and now you're demanding I produce proof? More evidence that your sort can't even hear (or read) yourselves.

Anti-vaxxers are crazy. I've said that repeatedly. It still doesn't explain why you put "Dr." in quotes as if he wasn't a doctor. And it still doesn't explain why you know zero about the man you've chosen to attack.
Because he's a member of a quack organization which makes him a quack (or do you have information that he's disavowed the AAPS?). I've provided more information about him than you knew. Your only source for him is your ideological sympathy for his horrible ideas.
 
You are clueless about what the Republicans are proposing I see. They are raving about the HIGH DEDUCTIBLE policies that will abound after the repeal. It is high deductibles and coverage limits that are the backbone of their "cost reduction" mantra since they are doing away with caps on the % that insurers can keep of your premium and all the cost reductions the ACA imposed on providers. Since there is nothing left to actually reduce actual HC costs you can expect premiums to keep going up like that have for many years before the ACA.

You realize UCA providers are dropping like flies, right? Price controls don't work, just ask Venezuela. ;)
 
Before His HHS Nom, Price Had Employer Health Insurance In His Sights

I can hardly wait for him to push for that idea with President Twit. Since about 90% of the OCare haters have employer either Medicare or employer-based health insurance wouldn't it be poetic justice if they lost their nearly free-lunch along with all the people who get thrown off when OCare is destroyed and Medicare is shredded by these soulless psychopaths? Oh, yes. Let's have that.

Re: that name; he'll Price-you-out of your health insurance.


They are largely the same people that would rally around signs saying things like "Get Government Out of My Medicare!"
 
True - and since Ocare - employers who were faced with larger and larger premiums had to stop covering spouses of employees and their children. How did that benefit anyone?

Because premiums grew more slowly than they had before, historically. Oh, right, and: premiums growing more slowly is good.
 
I don't trust the government to fix anything. Do you?

I certainly trust ever republican government at all levels to really **** things up, though. They are fully dependable on that score. Every. Time. In fact, it's the only thing that they can be counted on to deliver. Every state in this country that's run by republicans is a failed state on some level or another.
 
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