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idirtify
10-29-2009, 07:06 PM
Lou Dobbs is having four physicians supposedly discuss the “bottom of the HC problems”. Let’s see if anyone does.

OK, Dr Benjamin Carson is talking about the high costs. That’s good, but let’s see if he mentions why/how THEY are ABLE to charge high prices and still stay in business. He talks about standardizing insurance forms, the high cost of emergency rooms and recommends clinics instead, and then mentions preventative health care and hands it over to Dr Foster to continue to talk about prevention. Foster goes on about diabetes and lifestyles and how prevention is cheaper than treatment. Now Dr Howard Weiner talks about parents of ill children who seek special treatments and how inefficient insurance companies impede this process, and recommends patient-centric care as the solution. Now Carson is back advocating regulation on insurance company profits. Now Dr Donald Long is talking about the quality of HC, and recommends “the best quality” to offset the high costs. He also advises greater speed and efficiency, and suggests we need super-special specialists. Now he has the gall to suggest that med school should be free. Now they wrap up and Long reiterates a focus on the patient, with best-quality care. Weiner says to serve patients first, be held to high standards and maintain them, and minimize red tape. Foster promotes efficiency billing and complains that docs have no time to talk to patients. Carson is back with a final word. He emphasizes need for Tort reform and says they could spend another whole hour talking about it. He advises getting rid of things not necessary and catching diseases early, and blasts politicians for acting like third graders and not representing their constituents.

Golly gee; it’s over and they didn’t say anything about the underlying source of the HC crisis. All I heard was a bunch of the samo-samo. OK…I was only toying with you. In no way did I expect four DOCTORS to publicly expose the one thing that allows them and their colleagues to overcharge and underperform and become filthy rich. Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? Honestly, the idea of getting honesty about the HC crisis from four doctors is hilarious. These are the fat cats that are allowed to over-charge BECAUSE the government has regulated away their competition. So why would they reveal their main trade secret, let alone denigrate it as the cause of a problem? To them, it’s their cash cow.

I’ll clean this up and post it after I watch survivor (without computer interruption).