Right, no one is guaranteed a right to a certain level of income...well...except those on welfare. My issue is with Gruss trying to paint the doctors as the evil ones because they do not want their income to go down. I doubt if Obama told Gruss (or anyone else) that they needed to take a pay cut to 'help the country' they would not put up a fight.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Judah McAuley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course doctors aren't bad because they want to make money. I'm in > favor of capitalism in general. But they also aren't guaranteed a > right to a certain level of income. A strong public option health care > plan will likely result in reduced incomes for some specialties. > That's good for people paying into the system. Not so good for those > doctors. Hence the AMA opposes it. No great mystery there. > > Judah > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Scott Stroz<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wait....he doctors are bad because they want to make money? Wow, I >> guess I am bad too as I want to make money. I am sure the time you >> spent as a doctor you did all your work pro-bono. >> >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Judah - how's this for a fact: number of doctors that aren't gaming >>> the system: 0. >>> >>> Cause it MUST be those evil insurers ... after all they pay the bills >>> doctors charge and, wait, what? Costs are driven by doctors?? >>> Nooooooo ... >>> >>> Apparently these AMA docs are looking to get paid a bit more than a smile. >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Just days before President Barack Obama is set to address the American >>> Medical Association to pitch its members on his vision for health care >>> reform, the 250,000-member physician group announced it would oppose a >>> major component of that effort. >>> >>> On Wednesday night, the New York Times reported that AMA was "letting >>> Congress know" that it would resist a public plan for health insurance >>> coverage. >>> >>> Despite a lofty reputation and purported commitment to universal >>> coverage, AMA has fought almost every major effort at health care >>> reform of the past 70 years. The group's reputation on this matter is >>> so notorious that historians pinpoint it with creating the ominous >>> sounding phrase "socialized medicine" in the early decades of the >>> 1900s. >>> >>> "The AMA used it to mean any kind of proposal that involved an >>> increased role for the government in the health care system," Jonathan >>> Oberlander, a professor of health policy at the University of North >>> Carolina, told NPR in a 2007 interview. "They also used it to mean >>> things in the private system that they didn't like. So, at one point, >>> HMOs were a form of socialized medicine." >>> >>> Indeed, the role played by AMA throughout health care reform battles >>> past has often been primarily as the defender of the status quo. >>> >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/11/american-medical-associat_n_214132.html >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298314 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
