Doctors on Coverage — Physicians’Views on a New Public Insurance Option and Medicare Expansion | New England Journal of Medicine »
Posted By ybdogsct 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & FitnessSurvey respondents were asked to indicate which of three options for expanding health insurance coverage they would most strongly support: public and private options, providing people younger than 65 years of age the choice of enrolling in a new public health insurance plan (like Medicare) or in private plans; private options only, providing people with tax credits or subsidies, if they have low income, to buy private insurance coverage, without creating a new public plan; or a public option only, eliminating private insurance and covering everyone through a single public plan like Medicare.
Overall, a majority of physicians (62.9%) supported public and private options (see Panel A of graph). Only 27.3% supported offering private options only. Respondents — across all demographic subgroups, specialties, practice locations, and practice types — showed majority support (>57.4%) for the inclusion of a public option (see Table 1).
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ybdogsct2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Here's the original New England Journal of Medicine survey demonstrating that a majority of practicing physicians (62.9%) supported Obama's plan for a health insurance market including both a public option and private insurance plans. An additional 9.6% support legislation that would mandate public options only.
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bossman1012 months, 2 weeks ago
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Federally run health care is unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly reserves for the individual states the right to see to the well-being of its own citizens, and forbids the federal government from interfering.
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Health care is 17% of the GDP. This is a power grab, plain and simple, and the government is playing on people's emotions to help them achieve their goal.
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” --Thomas Jefferson-
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almos_vagyok2 months, 2 weeks ago
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I am not a constitutional lawyer and so I do not have your confidence in declaring what is
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unconstitutional, but is it not the the legal branch of the government that is supposed to make such decisions? What is to stop anyone to take the new bill to the courts and have it
declared unconstitutional (if, as you claim, it is)? And by the same logic, why has not
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rimbaud2 months, 2 weeks ago
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The insurance companies want to market health insurance across state lines (the constitution mandates the regulation of interstate commerce). The insurance companies are OK with the no restrictions on pre-existing conditions, not dropping sick subscribers and co caps on coverage, if the government can get the un-insured on to their rolls (and not some public option or co-op). They are betting that a big influx of healthy members will offset the cost of having to keep sick ones.
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cleare2 months, 2 weeks ago
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...and the average life expectancy during the drafting of the constitution was 43 years and medical care was rudimentary at best. they had no real concept of bacterial or viral infections or public health.
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the founders left plenty of room for interpretation and modification.
bottom line for me is that health care for profit is immoral, and not all states (mostly in the conservative south) can afford to subsidize their citizen's health care.
it is in our collective self-interest to see to it that our fellow citizens' are as healthy as possible, partly to prevent the spread of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, but also so they can contribute more to our society; healthy people are more productive than sick people. -
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DarkWizard2 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Federally run health care is unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly reserves for the individual states the right to see to the well-being of its own citizens, and forbids the federal government from interfering."
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That's not exactly true. In fact, the Federal government supersedes any state laws when both have conflicting laws on the books. The State can only write laws that are not specified under constitutional law or do not contradict existing constitutional laws.
Whether a federally run health care system is unconstitutional or not would seem to be a point for the U.S. Supreme Court to determine. The fact that the Federal Government Military is run by our taxes and has its own hospitals, doctors and staff would seem to point toward a precedence. As well as taxation for Medicare and Medicaid would seem to favor some constitutionality toward socialized medicine.
And, just because Congress has not unlimited powers, does not mean that it can't be enumerated specifically toward dealing with health care reform. The current Congress and President were voted in on the premise that they would indeed deal with health care (among other things). The vocal minority has had its chance and has been exposed as unfit to run a government of the People. Deal with it! -
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most_reasonable2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Thomas Jefferson also thought that it was UNCONSTITUTIONAL for the government to print money and that only the states should have that ability.
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Obviously you prefer the NO OVERSIGHT of the federal government to drugs coming into the US, and the upcoming flu epidemic should be handled by the states.
you are a jerk.
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bossman1012 months, 2 weeks ago
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Let me also add that the majority of the American people are against this bill. Check out this poll at Rasmussen, the highest ranked polling site for accuracy:
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Health Care Reform
Opposition to Health Care Reform Reaches New High at 55%
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
One week after President Obama’s speech to Congress, opposition to his health care reform plan has reached a new high of 55%. The latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll shows that just 42% now support the plan, matching the low first reached in August.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/pol...
Most people do not want interference from a government that can't run any program properly. Medicare and Medicaid will go bankrupt in the next ten years. Social Security is a big ponzi scheme. Even the Cash for Clunkers program had to be shut down early.
We need private sector fixes for health care costs, like tort reform and allowing the purchase of coverage across state lines to encourage competition in the marketplace. I would wholeheartedly support such common sense reform, rather than handing over complete control to the federal government.-
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almos_vagyok2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Go to http://www.pollingreport.com/health.htm
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CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Sept. 11-13, 2009. N=1,012 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (for all adults).
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling health care policy?"
Approve Disapprove Unsure
51% 47% 2%
"From everything you have heard or read so far, do you favor or oppose Barack Obama's plan to reform health care?"
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NoWayMan2 months, 2 weeks ago
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rasmussen? c'mon.
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rasmussen, a well-known christian fundie righty, was a paid consultant for the GOP and Bush. talk about conflict of interest. you'll only be able to (further) convince the glen beck nutters with rasmussen numbers. the rest of us are laughing. you're going to need a new source. -
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toravia2 months, 2 weeks ago
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jovial2 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's not about healthcare any more to people. It's about making Obama fail. There's still a lot of people out there angry about the bailout and the others about the mere fact that he was elected. At this point people are so blinded by hate wherever the chips stand is where they will stay.
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fritz10212 months, 2 weeks ago
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I as in me don't care what any of them Doctors think.Fix the System so i or them can go and see the Doc and we can be fixed.What party i don,t Care but fix it,The Cost who gives a Rats *ss if you don,t Spend it on Health care they will *iss it away on a Stupid w\War or Wars where the Rich get richer and the poor... well they just die.
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