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To: tejek who wrote (343066)	7/12/2007 11:50:56 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

Frist is NOT a good example. Frist is a politician. Frist was all COLUMBIA HCA'd in the head. That guy was BIG money wallstreet and pandering to the DRUG co's. Frist is not an example of the doctor who has lost 70-80 percent of his practice due to Insurance/Govt bureaucracy...

To: tejek who wrote (343066)	7/12/2007 11:54:21 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

[A doc in private practice] If you spend 70 percent of your time fighting insurance company's, fighting the state, fighting the feds, trying to collect from patients who can't or won't pay you. IT WEARS ON YOU. Day after day it wears you down. You lose perspective. You stop thinking about the patient and what the patient needs. And instead you think about where you'r going to get the money to make payroll. If your business just took a 70 percent hit in California because Workers' comp won't pay you and all the TWISTED convoluted system of private insurers. Fighting all that. It just wears on you. You can't be a good doctor when your fighting all that. NEVERMIND. Goodnight.

To: tejek who wrote (343066)	7/13/2007 4:00:48 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

Ted, > Doctors complain they are going broke but when you look a little deeper you find most are like Frist with tons of money in real estate and other ventures. You could say the same thing about lawyers, professors, investment bankers, union leaders, and of course politicians who vote themselves a raise. Nothing unique to doctors there. > If a doctor like Frist can let his ideology influence him in a life or death matter like he did with Schiavo, what makes you think the same thing would not happen with a lesser issue like a national health program? Two words: Jocelyn Elders. Tenchusatsu