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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Sage , the ultimate 'insurer' in gov't run healthcare 'is' the gov't.  They 
also push as much paper on the practitioners, now, as do the insurance 
companies.  

One big difference is that a really incompetent private insurance company 
employee can be terminated.  Not true for gov't employees.  Sometimes, I 
think general incompetence is a postive on a resume or C.V. for a gov't 
position ...............................................

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 10:42 AM
> I recently read an article that said 70 percent of all GPs 
> replied in a study that they were unhappy with their jobs 
> and would gladly change professions if they could. They 
> cited the biggest problem as all the paperwork the 
> insurance companies require, that they spend half their 
> day doing paperwork and the other half rushing patients 
> through. The article also said there are very few med 
> students that want to become GPs, it's much more
> lucrative 
> to become a specialist, and that there will be a shortage 
> of GPs in the future. I know our own GP has recently 
> started to cancel our appointments with little more than 2 
> hours notice, and I can only presume he has decided to 
> golf. As much as I like him and feel he is competent in 
> diagnosis, we are shopping around for a new one.
> 
> So once again, it's the insurance companies who are 
> causing the problem, instead of helping. If they don't
> get 
> the hmo paperwork out of whatever the solution is going to 
> be, I can't see the situation changing much.
> 
> --Sage
> 
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:22:25 -0600
>   "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, bob ford 
> ><bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I do agree with you that national centralized 
> >>health-care is a bad idea.  But, only because I
> think it 
> >>will not work as advertised and will lead to
> rationing 
> >>and lower the standards of health care for everone
> in the 
> >>country except the very rich..................
> >>
> > Just like Medicare has done.
> > 
> > Marie
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