Comments on: Castle-Based Medicine

By: raven333

raven333 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:45:10 +0000

Internationally, the rule of thumb is a bad system cannot deliver good care. The very richest get care only a bit better than the average. Bet the concierge doctors are lots more polite, though.

By: texasaggie

texasaggie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:19:37 +0000

It’s not as if they spend so much time working either. I seem to remember a recent headline saying that they are now going to three day weeks.

By: alank

alank — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:48:17 +0000

You don’t frighten us with your silly knees-bent running around advancing behavior!

By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:29:49 +0000

Would boycotting the health fundraising industry help? Org’s like breast cancer research, alheizheimers research, etc… When we donate to them is it the same as putting money in the pockets of the health industry that is fighting the public option?

By: formidable

formidable — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:00:49 +0000

Soooo . . . in roughly a hundred years or so, we’ve gone from snake oil salesmen to limiting oneself to administering exclusively to the aristocracy . . . nice scam!

And, taxpayer subsidized, too!

Is this a great country or what? (sarcasm: ON)

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000

So Lindsay Graham thinks we should feel sorry for him having to give up his “gold-plated Cadillac” medical care for public option?

What planet is he….oh, never mind.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:57:16 +0000

So I have heard, karnak12.

And, reflecting upon what I had heard, and speaking to several European friends about the matter, we concluded that in most places one drives to get somewhere, while in America we simply drive to distraction.

Also, in America, more than in most places, one’s auto is one’s ultimate “measure”.

Thus, the automobile in America carries a far greater burden of psychological implication, than cars in any other part of the known universe, being a protected form of “expression”. Not unlike the way that corporate monies are regarded as a part of a corporation’s right, as a fictitious “person”, to “free speech”.

It is all a part of our wonderful American “Exceptionalism”, and must be appreciated as such.

;~DW

By: TalkingStick

TalkingStick — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:33:08 +0000

You are confusing business licenses with medical practice licensing. Licensing to practice medicine requires graduation from an accredited 4 year medical school, in some states also serving a one year minimum internship in an accredited facility, and passing exams in a number of basic and clinical sciences called Board exams, Recommendations and documentation as to character are usually required. There are some variations depending on the state issuing the license. Beyond that various specialties have certification boards that involve proof of years of specialty training, oral and written examinations, and requirements specific to the specialty.

By: karnak12

karnak12 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:31:18 +0000

Try getting a drivers license in England sometime. That’s a real eye opener. In the US the “right” to drive is right up there with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not so elsewhere.

By: Becca

Becca — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:25:44 +0000

And America takes another lurching step towards outright feudal plutocracy.