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Physicians Increasingly Support a Single-Payer National Health Insurance System
February 13, 2009
"US physicians increasingly support a single-payer national health insurance system, according to the results of a survey reported online January 29 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
“Many politicians may mistakenly believe that single-payer national health insurance lacks support among key stakeholders such as doctors,” lead author Danny McCormick, from Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), said in a news release. “Our finding that support for single-payer national health insurance now approaches that of tax-based incremental reforms suggests that a Medicare-for-all-type plan may be more politically viable than conventional wisdom suggests......”
"Of 3300 physicians sent the survey, 1675 (50.8%) responded; 49% prefer either tax incentives or penalties to promote the purchase of health insurance; 42% prefer a government-run, taxpayer-financed single-payer national health insurance program, which increased from 26% in a study 5 years previously; and only 9% prefer the current, employer-based financing system....."
See: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/588331?src=mp&spon=17&uac=39980BG
"US physicians increasingly support a single-payer national health insurance system, according to the results of a survey reported online January 29 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
“Many politicians may mistakenly believe that single-payer national health insurance lacks support among key stakeholders such as doctors,” lead author Danny McCormick, from Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), said in a news release. “Our finding that support for single-payer national health insurance now approaches that of tax-based incremental reforms suggests that a Medicare-for-all-type plan may be more politically viable than conventional wisdom suggests......”
"Of 3300 physicians sent the survey, 1675 (50.8%) responded; 49% prefer either tax incentives or penalties to promote the purchase of health insurance; 42% prefer a government-run, taxpayer-financed single-payer national health insurance program, which increased from 26% in a study 5 years previously; and only 9% prefer the current, employer-based financing system....."
See: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/588331?src=mp&spon=17&uac=39980BG
I believe in healthcare with a graduated premium for everyone who is able to work. I've already posted about the Medicaid Buy in for Working People with Disabilities. That encourages people to go back to work and will have a premium. If your husband works for the Medicare and Medicaid administration he could tell you more and except for emergency Medicaid there is nothing else illegal immigrants are entitled to as regards public benefits and no comprehensive healthcare plan that is being addressed has any intentions of changing this. I know something about public benefits but if he works directly for the system you can ask him about the regulations and there is no proposal to change them from any politician.
"You know why my husband get screwed over, it is because we did not vote for Obama and are Republicans. He has been told this so we are not exaggerating."
This is work place discrimination and your husband should file suit against his company. As republicans we can not stand for this kind of treatment. I know if I ever faced discrimation for my conservative beliefs I would have my employer's head spinning in about 2 mins from a law suit.
This is work place discrimination and your husband should file suit against his company. As republicans we can not stand for this kind of treatment. I know if I ever faced discrimation for my conservative beliefs I would have my employer's head spinning in about 2 mins from a law suit.
I struggle paying healthcare as well as everybody else. We pay $600 a month for a family of 3, pay 20% for our prescriptions, have a $2000 deductible and do not have a choice as to who we go to. I own my own business cleaning residential homes. I do this business by myself noone helps me and I surely do not make alot of money. My husband works for a company that does computer security for our medicare and medicaid system. The issue is that he gets really crappy insurance while the rest of the others get great healthcare. He was supposed to get a $17,000 raise this year but decided to give it to someone else. My husband works his a** off every day of the week. He travels for his company and they refuse to pay for his trips but do pay for others trips.
You know why my husband get screwed over, it is because we did not vote for Obama and are Republicans. He has been told this so we are not exaggerating.
We are getting calls everyday for our bills that we cannot pay. We also have only one car right now, because we decided that we need to be a steward of what we do have not for what we want. The mains issue with are economy has to do with the Credit system and banks giving too much credit to people that do not know how to control their spending. We were one of those people, but now realize that we do not want to give our son our debt. We all must make sacrifices in life to better our world, but that does not mean we throw our principles out the window. So, to say that my family does not want Universal healthcare because we have great insurance and it works, is totally wrong. My son and I both have ADD and ADHD. Our prescriptions are expensive. But, I do not want anyone telling me what meds I may take and what I am restricted from doing with my health.
I agree that we need healthcare for most people, but what about the people that come to this country illegally and we do not even question them. And if you all really think that illegals are not going to use this system you all are wrong. They already do this and get away with it. Look, I want people to be responsible for their own actions and be able to decide what they want. I just do not see why I have to work even more hours to be able to afford my taxes and pay for my healthcare as well as everyone elses.
You know, I am a very compassionate person and would do anything to help someone, but I need to look out for my family as well. We have many people that sue our doctors for outrageous issues and people that really have gotten hurt by them. Lawyers will always find ways to beat the system no matter what we do with healthcare. It is just going to cost us way more money in the long run and you will still have people getting rich from lawsuits.
Some doctors are also very greedy and just care about making a 6 figure income and using patients to their advantage. If you really think that this new healthcare system will help you mayble then we should at least have a choice whether we want to participate or not as well as the physicians. This may be what they are proposing now, but we will all eventually no longer have a choice.
Why can't those very intelligent non-taxpayers that are creating this idea figure out what will really work for us. They seem to have no problem forgetting to pay their taxes and wanting the american people to just look the other way so I guess that we can trust them with our healthcare.
I do not want to see anybody suffer for not having healthcare. My earlier message regarding my Aunt's friend whom lived and died in Canada was NOT a myth and also is not for many others who have suffered from a Universal healthcare policy. Studies are done for alot of things and do not always reflect the majority of people's views and truth. They usually get paid to do these studies and benefit from it in some way or another. Unless it involves research into a specific disease or ailment, studies are not very accurate.
You know why my husband get screwed over, it is because we did not vote for Obama and are Republicans. He has been told this so we are not exaggerating.
We are getting calls everyday for our bills that we cannot pay. We also have only one car right now, because we decided that we need to be a steward of what we do have not for what we want. The mains issue with are economy has to do with the Credit system and banks giving too much credit to people that do not know how to control their spending. We were one of those people, but now realize that we do not want to give our son our debt. We all must make sacrifices in life to better our world, but that does not mean we throw our principles out the window. So, to say that my family does not want Universal healthcare because we have great insurance and it works, is totally wrong. My son and I both have ADD and ADHD. Our prescriptions are expensive. But, I do not want anyone telling me what meds I may take and what I am restricted from doing with my health.
I agree that we need healthcare for most people, but what about the people that come to this country illegally and we do not even question them. And if you all really think that illegals are not going to use this system you all are wrong. They already do this and get away with it. Look, I want people to be responsible for their own actions and be able to decide what they want. I just do not see why I have to work even more hours to be able to afford my taxes and pay for my healthcare as well as everyone elses.
You know, I am a very compassionate person and would do anything to help someone, but I need to look out for my family as well. We have many people that sue our doctors for outrageous issues and people that really have gotten hurt by them. Lawyers will always find ways to beat the system no matter what we do with healthcare. It is just going to cost us way more money in the long run and you will still have people getting rich from lawsuits.
Some doctors are also very greedy and just care about making a 6 figure income and using patients to their advantage. If you really think that this new healthcare system will help you mayble then we should at least have a choice whether we want to participate or not as well as the physicians. This may be what they are proposing now, but we will all eventually no longer have a choice.
Why can't those very intelligent non-taxpayers that are creating this idea figure out what will really work for us. They seem to have no problem forgetting to pay their taxes and wanting the american people to just look the other way so I guess that we can trust them with our healthcare.
I do not want to see anybody suffer for not having healthcare. My earlier message regarding my Aunt's friend whom lived and died in Canada was NOT a myth and also is not for many others who have suffered from a Universal healthcare policy. Studies are done for alot of things and do not always reflect the majority of people's views and truth. They usually get paid to do these studies and benefit from it in some way or another. Unless it involves research into a specific disease or ailment, studies are not very accurate.
I didn't say that tort reform and medical malpractice reform aren't important steps. To the contrary I believe they are . I tried to say that they aren't the primary driver of the rising cost of healthcare. And I also believe that Vance is right when he mentions that the doctors practicing defensive medicine is a significant cost - needless tests and procedures to CYA. So it is a significant factor. I just don't think it is the primary driver of rising heath care costs but there is no doubt in my mind that it's a significant contributor.
It is an essential step because malpractice insurance is a waste. Many of the claims are fraudelent and must go to court anyway and waste taxpayer's dollars. Then the money is paid out to a lawyer. Malpractice insurance is a bad idea. The very few cases of criminal negligence should be tried that way and in general if on occassion there is a complaint it should be done within the system. These are the two ones I've used but never misused:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/professionals/doctors/conduct/
http://www.cqcapd.state.ny.us/
The issues were addressed sometimes on a larger scale and as for the second since as it involved psych. hospitals (before my recovery) psychiatrists weren't even the basis of the complaint. It was some negligent staff. Now I don't encourage complaints but on occassion they are warranted but I'd rather see the medical profession address its own concerns, then somebody make a lawyer rich. I have advanced tardive dyskinesia to the point where I am homebound and it wasn't from malpractice. Its a long term side effect of current antipsychotics. And as I've posted I am on a new generation of antipsychotics in study, the glutamate antagonists, that will promote a fuller recovery and won't cause this neurological disability and pushing for them to be fast tracked through the studies. Provider agencies agree with me. But if you look up my disability online, some people want to misuse it for lawsuits. I can't make them stop but they should. Every settlement paid out is money wasted that could be used researching new treatments.
To summarize you are correct, wasteful lawsuits and medical malpractice insurance as a concept should be ended and tort reform is essential.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/professionals/doctors/conduct/
http://www.cqcapd.state.ny.us/
The issues were addressed sometimes on a larger scale and as for the second since as it involved psych. hospitals (before my recovery) psychiatrists weren't even the basis of the complaint. It was some negligent staff. Now I don't encourage complaints but on occassion they are warranted but I'd rather see the medical profession address its own concerns, then somebody make a lawyer rich. I have advanced tardive dyskinesia to the point where I am homebound and it wasn't from malpractice. Its a long term side effect of current antipsychotics. And as I've posted I am on a new generation of antipsychotics in study, the glutamate antagonists, that will promote a fuller recovery and won't cause this neurological disability and pushing for them to be fast tracked through the studies. Provider agencies agree with me. But if you look up my disability online, some people want to misuse it for lawsuits. I can't make them stop but they should. Every settlement paid out is money wasted that could be used researching new treatments.
To summarize you are correct, wasteful lawsuits and medical malpractice insurance as a concept should be ended and tort reform is essential.
Yes it is the first step, because if you looked at the full issue and not just one article you would see that.
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