Obama compares physicians to flies and makes fun of WWJD

Obama compares physicians to flies he can swat and makes fun of WWJD, all in 30 secs while journalists laugh. In reality, physicians have lost their constitutional rights to free enterprise. They can not order tests on their patients on Medicare or Insurance unless the physician accepts whatever Medicare or the Insurance decides to pay, as payment in full.

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[bronx43]

@oran6es As I said... no politician has the political capital to cut entitlement programs, so you can essentially count those as static members of the budget. And in a global market of free trade, reduced taxes are far less able to generate jobs, as proven by the past few years of stagnant job growth. And over-utilization? Are you fucking retarded? The excessive procedures and testing aren't obvious to you? There is endless data out there on per-capita health care usage.

[oran6es]

@bronx43 I disagree. Drastic reduction in taxes accompanied by an even more drastic reduction in spending would enable more capital in the private sector, more jobs, etc. Over-utilization? Examples?

[bronx43]

@oran6es Insurance companies are powerful, but having more companies out there to compete won't reduce overall health care costs. The mere idea is ridiculous, as the main driver of high costs is that of the actual medical service, not the secondary market inhabited by insurance corporations. Like I said, fee for service as to go for there to be any semblance of a sustainable health care system.

[bronx43]

@oran6es Uh... what? How would these "solutions" solve anything related to inflated health care costs - the stem of which is caused by over-utilization and the lack of a free market for services? And your treatise on reduced taxation is laughable at best. You DO realize that the government would immediately go into insolvency should they drastic reduce taxes, forcing them to buy more treasuries, and eventually destroy the dollar.

[oran6es]

Insurance companies have become too powerful. There are too few. They have no problem hosing the patient or the physician. One inefficient too powerful federal government that hoses everyone is not the answer. Giving power back to the patient by creating an environment that allows choices from a hundred or so insurers across state lines would be more effective. I would support a government funded catastrophic coverage for everyone that would make basic insurance rates even more affordable.

[oran6es]

Solution 2: Drastic reduction of income taxes. Taxes add to costs of everything. Example: A medical professional "making" 300k taxed at 50% really takes home 150k The same medical professional can take home the same 150k if he "made" 200k taxed at 25%! That's an extra 100k out there and a reduction of health care "costs" by 33% (300k to 200k) !

[oran6es]

@bronx43 The solution to an abusive health insurance corporation(penalizing people for becoming ill) is not an overbearing inefficient government that penalizes everyone with rationing, rewarding mediocrity, etc. Let employers give employees the $ they are now giving for insurance tax free. People can purchase their own health insurance as they do car insurance AND create an environment that allows many more choices and many more insurance companies to choose from(across state lines).

[fanofjapanandmusic]

@bronx43 thanks

good luck to you too

(something i never get to say unless im on youtube ,only because chances are i may never meet you)

have a great life :D

[bronx43]

@oran6es I agree that tort reform is needed, because it is nothing but a gaping inefficiency in the system that is only present due to political incumbency and some misguided sense of social justice. The only real way for American health care to become sustainable again is for the whole system to crash and rebuilt from the ground up with either an entirely free market or entirely government controlled system. The former is less likely than the latter.

[oran6es]

Today's democratic way: over-regulate physicians and surgeons but let the personal injury attorneys/trial lawyers run wild.