Okay, another time besides this one.
The stance of private physicians was overwhelmingly hostile — you know like Republicans are now (though I’m pretty sure the AMA never encouraged fabricating birth certicates so there were differences).
Well, though it doesn’t necessarily mean it will work its way through thick skulls this was good to see:
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) study published in Monday’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that 63 percent of physicians support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private insurance. If the additional 10 percent of doctors who support an entirely public health system are included, then approximately three out of four physicians nationwide support inclusion of a public option.
Not that anyone seems to be listening. I guess a private insurance system that does stuff like this is too awesome to change:
It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.
Related posts:
- Hello, White House? Doctors Strongly Support Public Option Says New Poll
- Early Morning Swim: Doctors
for the Public OptionSingle Payer on Ed Schultz - Surprise! Redux: AMA Folds Half-Way On Its Opposition to Public Plan Option; Obama Keeps Up Pressure
- Michele Bachmann Opposes Public Option Because It’s “Cheaper”
- CMS: Public Option Much Cheaper Than Private Insurance, and Would Make Private Plans Cheaper, Too





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If anyone is actually satisfied with existing insurance they probably never had a claim against it.
Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Herbert today. Bobo is tut-tutting about what he’s calling our “High Five Nation.” He says today immodesty is as ubiquitous as advertising. It’s funny how the nation’s mood was at its most humble when its achievements were at their most extraordinary. Mr. Herbert, in “A World of Hurt,” says this recession, a full-blown economic horror, has left a gaping hole in the heart of working America that is unlikely to heal for years, if not decades.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with cream cheese. Now it’s time for me to go and be cat staff for a bit — I’ve been informed that the dishes are not full enough, and that water dish needs topping off. (Delilah for some reason shoves the water dish around the floor, so keeping it full can be a challenge…) Have a great day.
doctors have been one of the victims of private health care, with relaxed regulation the health industry is now able to deny claims at will, deny fees to doctors at will and take their time paying
I know at least three chiropractors who have closed their doors due to their failed ability to collect from insurance companies
This ACORN shit is not good.
Great video. That Ronald Reagan– what a guy. I really miss the ol’ Gipper. He’s the kind of guy you’d like to watch a football game with.
Admittedly, I don’t watch a lot of tv, so tell me, are there any forceful ads promoting the public option? Or a one-payer system? It doesn’t seem like this fight isn’t being waged as well as it could be. Are any politicians citing that study?
And, for the second time I must make this observation. The progressive sites ask us to make calls, we make calls. They ask us to donate money, we donate money. Their reach and influence is mighty. So why aren’t they using it to get everyone to DC for a massive rally?
Didn’t that “film crew” try this at 5 other locations to no avail? Who’s paying these twerps to travel all over for this? I’ve got ideas…
ACORN is so used to this stuff that I think they’ll manage:
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=17855
What’s ironic is that ACORN is one of the best organizations at policing itself. Whenever there’s story about ACORN workers/volunteers being dishonest, it almost always came to light because ACORN itself reported them. This part is usually left out of the BigMedia “reporting.”
Like the Repub Convention, when “community organizing” was constantly sneered by the whackjobs, it’s just part of trying to keep the “little people” down. So for a Repub…multi-million dollar astroturf campaigns run by DeeCee insiders are cool, but true bottom-up, grassroots movements re bad. Lovely.
It’s really hard to organize a mass of people to act together. It’s an art form really. While much of the online development has been great, it’s been painfully obvious for awhile now that it’s just one part of a larger puzzle to create massive change.
Rosa Parks, Pete Seeger, MLK, Ralph Abernathy, and many others never provided a link or signed an online petition. They went to school to learn how to do it, and even posed for a photo at one such school in 1957:
http://www.highlandercenter.or…..m-king.jpg
Amazing what that group did in the upcoming years.
Village elder Al Hunt is wheeled out of his assisted living facility to declare
DFHs get off of my lawnTHEN STOP EATING ACORNS!! How hard was that?
Disgusting.
”One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine,” and
”One of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan in 1961 opposing enactment of Medicare.
Pesky facts, logic, planning, and democracy – who needs ‘em.
Anyway…
“Joe the ‘Doctor’”* does not agree, and he is middle america, also I am screaming liar in a staged incident (its not like Congress people have a voice or anything), and I like to wave a gun. OK, gotta run to my TV interview.
* Joe is not a real doctor, oh and his name is not really Joe (but you assumed this since every day is opposite lie day).
Now it’s more like they’re telling us “Don’t let the weak good be the enemy of the crappy” .
Don’t forget the wispy look with a glistening eye, and the earthy cigaret timber of his voice…
What a crapy actor, but the media says he is great. Sorry but Raygun was easy to read – the media just controlled the message that he was great and a man of the people (and may people bought it, since in 1980 you drank the milk the media poured; my father had many working class folks like himself say 8 – 15 years too late that he was right about RayGun and Labor v Capital – the shocking thing is that with 30 years and the internet the same thing bascially plays, only now they have upped the ante and only a minority falls for this crap but they still act like the facts are different and nobody does anything about it)
It’s certainly an atavistic condition.
When did Reagan do that? During the McCarthy Era?