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To: tonto who wrote (103576)	10/28/2011 12:06:02 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I would imagine that there are Drs with small practices..... You called it right. Now you understand why this massive opposition to O'care. O'care does two things, it increases the bargaining power of group insurers because more folks are now covered. And it forces the doctors to cut down their costs due to opulence of their offices, a large staff etc. It also forces the hospitals to cut down on costs of the fat pays of CEO's and other spurious staff. I have several doctors. My eye doctor is highly automated, has a very small staff. Even reminders are sent by text messages, not some human calling a phone and leaving a VM. His costs are low. But my cardiologist, is still all manual, has to rent space to hang all his files and a human to sort out and pull out the files. And you can imagine what his costs are. O'care will force such doctors to automate or else the free market forces will require him to abandon his practice. So all this opposition to O'Care by the Republicans is a big baloney for those Americans who care to go and dig deeper.

To: tonto who wrote (103576)	10/28/2011 1:30:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

That is mostly propaganda. Not true in my town. Right wing and right wing docs trying to scare people. Which is ugly because ithey are doing it to prevent universal health care and a public option which is essential. we must have affordable universal health care. But in any event, society must provide universal health care even if it means building medical schools and educating doctors with government money. I think we need more medical schools regardless. There are many more qualified medical student applicants than schools to take them and some kids cannot afford it. That is easily taken care of by government. If we quaruple the number of doctors prices will go down and docs will take less. Docs charge too much now. Good old capitalism. << AAPS reports that thousands of physicians have opted out of Medicare. It is a serious decision that each one of them must make because they are discontinuing providing care to some patients. It is understandable why they may choose to do so and is a problem that must be addressed. I am not aware of any doctors loving Medicare but naturally only a small group of them and comments made by my daughter. I would imagine that there are Drs with small practices that want lower paying patients that will help fill their hours so, there will be two opinions regarding this issue.