Comments on: Physicians’ Council for Responsible Reform Forms to Ensure Reform Actually Improves Health Care http://www.physiciansnews.com/2009/12/15/physicians%e2%80%99-council-for-responsible-reform-forms-to-ensure-reform-actually-improves-health-care/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:13:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: spencerkerry http://www.physiciansnews.com/2009/12/15/physicians%e2%80%99-council-for-responsible-reform-forms-to-ensure-reform-actually-improves-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 spencerkerry Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:16:51 +0000 http://www.physiciansnews.com/?p=2845#comment-1082 Asking doctors about ways to reform healthcare reform is like having a fox to watch the hen house.With all due respect, doctors are part of the problem. With all the exhorbitant fees that is unaffordable by 80% of the citizens in this country, there is a problem here. Why should a middle class person in this country have to rely on insurance to pay for office visits? that is ridiculous. I had to shell out $750 for a 5 min consultation with a doctor for an asthma ER visit for child. The hospital charged $350, including medication and respiratory therapist cost. So $750 per 5 mins for the doctor or $9000 / hour . (Note, this doctor was completely booked that night seeing patients in 10 rooms, so that $750 charge is not because of lack of patients, it is greed !!!) Healthcare is suffering also because we have the worst case of unionization in this country that severely restricts the entry of new doctors in the profession, either locally trained or foreign trained. This is despite the glaring shortage of doctors in this country. Finally, why are doctors the gatekeepers for everthing? In GA , there is law that requires doctors' prescription for flu shot in flu season !!. In Pennsylvania, you have to be a doctor to own a laboratory test center !!!. The result of all these is that Doctors are so overworked (by their own greed) that you cannot even get a quality 5 minute consultation with your doctor in an office visit. Our health suffers because we dont get the needed eductation from these professionals. Asking doctors about ways to reform healthcare reform is like having a fox to watch the hen house.With all due respect, doctors are part of the problem.

With all the exhorbitant fees that is unaffordable by 80% of the citizens in this country, there is a problem here. Why should a middle class person in this country have to rely on insurance to pay for office visits? that is ridiculous.
I had to shell out $750 for a 5 min consultation with a doctor for an asthma ER visit for child. The hospital charged $350, including medication and respiratory therapist cost. So $750 per 5 mins for the doctor or $9000 / hour . (Note, this doctor was completely booked that night seeing patients in 10 rooms, so that $750 charge is not because of lack of patients, it is greed !!!)
Healthcare is suffering also because we have the worst case of unionization in this country that severely restricts the entry of new doctors in the profession, either locally trained or foreign trained. This is despite the glaring shortage of doctors in this country.
Finally, why are doctors the gatekeepers for everthing? In GA , there is law that requires doctors’ prescription for flu shot in flu season !!. In Pennsylvania, you have to be a doctor to own a laboratory test center !!!.
The result of all these is that Doctors are so overworked (by their own greed) that you cannot even get a quality 5 minute consultation with your doctor in an office visit. Our health suffers because we dont get the needed eductation from these professionals.

]]> By: Michael Smith http://www.physiciansnews.com/2009/12/15/physicians%e2%80%99-council-for-responsible-reform-forms-to-ensure-reform-actually-improves-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Michael Smith Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:25:48 +0000 http://www.physiciansnews.com/?p=2845#comment-1012 With all due respect to your supporters, having Congressman Paul Broun Jr. (GA-10) involved in the core of your efforts is a big mistake, given his poor leadership and unnecessary confrontational manners since elected to serve in Washington, D.C. Michael Smith Athens, GA With all due respect to your supporters, having Congressman Paul Broun Jr. (GA-10) involved in the core of your efforts is a big mistake, given his poor leadership and unnecessary confrontational manners since elected to serve in Washington, D.C.

Michael Smith
Athens, GA

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