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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (16744)	4/12/2010 9:51:14 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

Basically it is up to the doctor to order the appropriate test(s). I think that is the only logical way the system could work. That must seem reasonable for someone who has never been anywhere near the inside of the medical system. There are many patients that are not that easy to diagnose. Sometimes it is because of poor medical practices and often it is because of restrictions on the tests that will be reimbursed. Basically the point of socialized medicine is to restrict everyone to the same minimal level of medical care. Send all of America to the Gulag.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (16744)	4/12/2010 10:52:29 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 42652

You are absolutely right Mary, the folks expressing what they think are facts are absolutely, totally wrong. My doctors have ordered every one of those tests, all on a regular basis....

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (16744)	4/13/2010 6:50:28 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

Maybe I don't understand what this discussion is all about An article was posted stating that Medicare covers "less than people think." It specifically mentioned routine physicals, emails, and phone calls. That was objected to as though it were a slander against Medicare that something like that might not be covered. Of course it covers them, was the response. Later I was challenged to identify anything that it didn't cover as though that would be impossible to do. So the discussion was about whether things were covered, not whether they should be covered. I don't see any reason why we should expect any kind of health care program to pay for every conceivable test and for as often as any person would want to take those tests. I don't, either. All plans ration. They have to. Who does the rationing and how astutely they do it can be called into question but arguing that Medicare or any other plan covers whatever someone might expect to be covered is doomed to failure.