tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post7186923946489171865..comments2024-03-27T13:25:58.065-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: Too much to write aboutCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-43490165435400157712009-06-12T11:30:24.313-04:002009-06-12T11:30:24.313-04:00Many doctors are disgusted with the AMA. Physicia...Many doctors are disgusted with the AMA. Physicians for a National Health Program includes many of them.Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-27759328821008309002009-06-12T10:43:11.878-04:002009-06-12T10:43:11.878-04:00You are so awesome when you're on a tear. I...You are so awesome when you're on a tear. I'd love to slip incognito into one or you classes and watch you in action.<br /><br />So the objection the AMA has to single payer is their pay? How much would it affect them really? I ask because I have a few friends who are medical professionals of one sort or another. Several have fled HMOs (horror stories abound) and are in private practice. That then produces stories about billing, another royal pain for them. As far as I know, every one of them now farms out the billing, even if it costs them more money than doing it for themselves.<br /><br />It seems to me that removing the burden of slashing their way through the insurance reimbursement jungle would offset any pay cuts they may suffer. Knowing that they WILL get paid, even for indigent patients, would more than offset any loss in pay. Which all makes me wonder WHO are doctors who make up the AMA? Surgeons? CEOs of HMOs? It just doesn't make any sense to me, based on the people I know.C. Coraxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-52952689959153200942009-06-11T14:21:52.646-04:002009-06-11T14:21:52.646-04:00Right, so like, who gives a shit?Right, so like, who gives a shit?Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-76652255384441646342009-06-11T13:48:15.574-04:002009-06-11T13:48:15.574-04:00if it is any consolation, my news radio reported t...if it is any consolation, my news radio reported the declaration of a pandemic with a clip from somebody saying, "this doesn't mean it's a harsh strain of the flu, only that it is widespread."kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.com