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If the liberals were serious about healthcare reform, they would have included tort reform in the Affordable Care Act.
They are serious about redistributing wealth and/or making more people dependent on government assistance. They couldn't care less if you get quality or any healthcare.
Tort Reform???? You must be crazy. Texas already did that and every study showed that it didn't lower medical costs one bit.
Tort reform is right wing code for taking away a patients right of redress for over the 80,000 certified malpractice incidents that happen every year.
Tort reform is the unregulated health industry's wet dream. Do what you want without the threat of liability. Might work if you're selling pot holders, but not when you're dealing with peoples lives and quality of life, post procedure.
uhm the medicare reimbursement rates are way under where the cost of living is
sorry but medicare sucks..and the payments the doctors get are not enough
Speaking for primary care.
Before we got about $70 for a typical office visit, 100 for extended.
Most Medicare patients are seen 2-4X annually.
So a typical cumulative annual Medicare patient reimbursement goes from about $325 to $490 the first year, $425 the following years. These are nice jumps if you take care of hundreds of Medicare patients.
uhm the medicare reimbursement rates are way under where the cost of living is
sorry but medicare sucks..and the payments the doctors get are not enough
Could you please provide me with a link to that paragraph. I'm really interested in the sourse of that statement and conclusion.
That 58.00 payment does not include the 20% that the patient also pays for the service. so the total doctors receive is more that 58.00.
As God is my witness. Two weeks ago, I asked my PCP if he would take the Humana Advantage for my part B. I wanted it because they paid the 165.00 deductible for part B and the silver sneakers for gym membership.
His exact words were, "No, they pay less than medicare and when they do pay, it's really slow. I'd have to hire another administrator just to sort thorough the maze if I took that type of insurance. I prefer Medicare."
Tort Reform???? You must be crazy. Texas already did that and every study showed that it didn't lower medical costs one bit.
Tort reform is right wing code for taking away a patients right of redress for over the 80,000 certified malpractice incidents that happen every year.
Tort reform is the unregulated health industry's wet dream. Do what you want without the threat of liability. Might work if you're selling pot holders, but not when you're dealing with peoples lives and quality of life, post procedure.
If you got up and got a job instead of laying around on welfare and are now productive and contributing, that's actually an example of the work ethic working.
More and more people living on welfare handouts is an example of socialism and how it's failing.
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Why did I go to college to better myself and now pay higher taxes? 
your supporting a fiscal system that you dont even comprehend..
