Comments on: Advice for Obama: Part 1 http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/ Thoughts of a moderately strange (yet not harmful) primary care physician. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Letter to Obama Part 2 | Musings of a Distractible Mind http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Letter to Obama Part 2 | Musings of a Distractible Mind Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:45:19 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3113 [...] As promised, I am continuing these letters - I know I sometimes get side-tracked, so thanks for your patience.  As you know, I am a primary care physician in private practice, so what you do with healthcare really matters to me.  Not only does it affect my personal livelihood, but it greatly affects the patients I see every day.  I see the uninsured, underinsured, people losing their jobs, people on Medicare or Medicaid, and everybody in between.  So I write this letter not only as a plea to you for my profession, but as a person with a vantage point few enjoy.  And I do enjoy being a doctor - something that cannot be said for all of my colleagues - and want to be practicing for years to come. [...] [...] As promised, I am continuing these letters – I know I sometimes get side-tracked, so thanks for your patience.  As you know, I am a primary care physician in private practice, so what you do with healthcare really matters to me.  Not only does it affect my personal livelihood, but it greatly affects the patients I see every day.  I see the uninsured, underinsured, people losing their jobs, people on Medicare or Medicaid, and everybody in between.  So I write this letter not only as a plea to you for my profession, but as a person with a vantage point few enjoy.  And I do enjoy being a doctor – something that cannot be said for all of my colleagues – and want to be practicing for years to come. [...]

]]> By: The Laundress http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3030 The Laundress Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:07:04 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3030 shoot, Dr. Rob, my own baby brother has black teeth snapping off in his mouth (and they HURT) but he has no health insurance. He is over 40. He has three kids. A whole lot of their family health care plan has been "don't get sick". He has worked HARD all his life but has lost 3 jobs in the past decade -- all formerly family-owned businesses that went corporate and re-located to China. Hoping President Obama DOES socialize medicine. Hoping he appoints my brother or someone else who has gone with untreated strep, unmedicated toothache to a cabinet appointment. love to you and all doctors and health care providers for all you do but damn, there are so many people YOU DO NOT SEE and who never would show up at an ER. No matter what... no matter about all y'all's yelping about uninsured showing up at ERs shoot, Dr. Rob,

my own baby brother has black teeth snapping off in his mouth (and they HURT) but he has no health insurance. He is over 40. He has three kids. A whole lot of their family health care plan has been “don’t get sick”.

He has worked HARD all his life but has lost 3 jobs in the past decade — all formerly family-owned businesses that went corporate and re-located to China.

Hoping President Obama DOES socialize medicine. Hoping he appoints my brother or someone else who has gone with untreated strep, unmedicated toothache to a cabinet appointment.

love to you and all doctors and health care providers for all you do but damn, there are so many people YOU DO NOT SEE and who never would show up at an ER. No matter what… no matter about all y’all’s yelping about uninsured showing up at ERs

]]> By: sterileeye http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 sterileeye Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:50:49 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3004 Hi Rob! Nice talking to you on the Dr. A Show. I think I accidentally called you "Mike". Hope you don't mind :) Hi Rob!

Nice talking to you on the Dr. A Show. I think I accidentally called you “Mike”. Hope you don’t mind :)

]]> By: Ken O. http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3003 Ken O. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:28:02 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3003 I really don't see the objection to PHC that is free at point of use, provided the PHPs receive fair remuneration taking into account their training debts. The "use will expand" argument hinges on the fallacy that people will get ill just to get free healthcare. The alternative, as Dr Rob has already highlighted, is that the genuinely poor are turned away, sometimes by doctors who they've been happy with for many years. I really don’t see the objection to PHC that is free at point of use, provided the PHPs receive fair remuneration taking into account their training debts. The “use will expand” argument hinges on the fallacy that people will get ill just to get free healthcare.

The alternative, as Dr Rob has already highlighted, is that the genuinely poor are turned away, sometimes by doctors who they’ve been happy with for many years.

]]> By: mockbadoc http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3002 mockbadoc Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:41:51 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3002 P.S. Please don't socialize medicine. P.S. Please don’t socialize medicine.

]]> By: bill http://distractible.org/2008/11/13/advice-for-obama-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3001 bill Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:33:43 +0000 http://distractible.org/?p=1828#comment-3001 Give advice to the new president? As Mr. O might say -- Yes, You CAN! Give advice to the new president? As Mr. O might say — Yes, You CAN!

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