Comments on: 3 years late, L.A. Times finally notes huge flaw in Obamacare

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:48:15 +0000

Remember GHW Bushes ‘Voodoo economics’. Well, Obamacare is gonna have third world voodoo doctor death panels. My family already dealt with one.
Hondo…

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:44:29 +0000

That 3rd world doctor problem happened to my family a while back. My grandfather, who was in his 80’s, had prostrate surgery. His after care doctor was from India and could barely be understood. His after care turned out to be letting my grandfather die through neglect. My mom and her two sisters stormed the hospital, read the doctor the riot act, and got him replaced. My grandfather lived another year and a half before dying of a stroke. Maybe the voodoo Indian doctor was right.
We asked why they had such a third world doctor there. Turns out in that small desert community, the practice wasn’t lucrative enough for Amerikan doctors. The old folks home hospital lured him from India.
Hondo….

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:22:49 +0000

“That’s when the third world doctors with medical degrees from some Caribbean voodoo college will take over.”

LOL LOL LOL LOL……

The funniest thing I have read in years.

By: andthepointis?

andthepointis? — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:23:42 +0000

about the NYT excerpt: Doesn’t Obamacare require people to have coverage? So those healthy people who “dropped out” must get coverage somewhere or pay the ACA tax. If the insurer participates in the exchange don’t they then also have access to a pool of healty insureds that serves to offset the adverse selection that occurs otherwise?

about the LAT excerpt: supply and demand? Patients can come into the system faster than doctors can be made. Don’t understand why that’s any sort of revelation. And so… is there reason to believe more patients, higher demand for medical services, won’t lead to production of more doctors via medical colleges and more technicians and …ologists through medical trade schools? Or is there meant to be a suggestion that medical providers should have been trained first so they’re ready and waiting to treat the additional patients as they come into the system? That would be a huge startup cost to make supply exceed demand. And how would that happen. Certainlly business wouldn’t foot the bill to make doctors before there’s demand. If gov’t proposed to pay for the training that would be huge additional costs for such a program.

So why isn’t supply lagging demand an expected outcome and not something to be criticized? What other model is one that wouldn’t be criticized?

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:33:32 +0000

Hondo & US citizen, I know you’re being tongue in cheek about med school but it wouldn’t work even if you were serious. The Obamanoids will eventually reduce health care worker compensation in a desperate attempt to lower costs. Soon we will be treated by med school graduates who have had their student loans forgiven so long as they promise to practice medicine for peanuts for a decade or two. Imagine how enthusiastic and competent your bright young MD will be working as a wage slave for the Federal bureaucracy.

They will spend most of their time filling out mindless and confusing forms and explaining to your loved ones why you have to die because your life saving medicine was just removed from the Federal drug formulary. That’s when the third world doctors with medical degrees from some Caribbean voodoo college will take over. I bet $50,000 a year for working 60 hour weeks will look pretty good to someone from Haiti or The Dominican Republic.

By: us citizen

us citizen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:08:44 +0000

Hey the hot ticket now is to be a physicans assistant………..only 1 year of med school. They make about 100-200 grand a year. You dont even get to see a full fledged doctor now and they are still raking in the dough. I think Ill join you in med school. You are right about 3rd world doctors now…….and dentists. I cant even understand some of them. This is bad.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:09:30 +0000

Instead of educating new amerikan doctors, most likely Obama will import thousands of third world doctors, giving us third world treatment and robbing those third world countries of any doctors. That’s what has happened in England.
Maybe I ought to apply to med school. I’ll graduate just in time to retire.
Hondo…..

By: Don't rag on them too much

Don't rag on them too much — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:31:01 +0000

They’re just trying to make the world a better place – that’s why they became “journalists” after college instead of greedy investment bankers and management consultants. I’m sure many in the newsroom resent these analyses as kowtowing to corporate America.

By: us citizen

us citizen — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:17:11 +0000

So when the facts are pointed out at the very beginning, the media refuses to report the truth. And what we get is a bunch of morons voting for a president who doesnt have a clue. Just wait until this slaps them in the face, if they are smart enough to get it.

Yeah, my premiums have gone up about 4 times since 2010! This is going to get really ugly and really fast.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:57:10 +0000

NYT, LAT, WaPo, et. al……..the blood is on their hands.

Hyperbole? I suppose. But not much.