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Why Your Doctor Secretly Hates Obamacare

Gunwise Wrote: Apr 30, 2012 1:49 PM

What color is the sky on your home planet? Here on Earth, in the UNited States, there is one undeniable truth - government control means never being able to get it right. There are only a very small number of things our federal government are legally able to do, and for the most part, those are the only things they get right - provide for the general welfare, and protect the country. However, this administration has managed even to degrade those two. The very best thing we can do for the country with respect to medical care to get and keep the government's incompetent, wasteful fingers out of it.

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Dorothy143 Wrote: Apr 30, 2012 5:26 PM

Here in France, even if you do not have national health coverage, doctor visits are a standard 22 euros. If you do have coverage, 17 euros are reimbursed. The quality of care is excellent. It is very thorough, and they usually run tests so they can make an accurate diagnosis before prescribing medication. People in France go to the doctor early and often, and benefit from accurate diagnostic procedures. This is why they live longer than Americans, even though many of them drink and smoke.

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Why Your Doctor Secretly Hates Obamacare

Your doctor won’t tell you this when you’re sitting in his office, so I will: He hates Obamacare. It’s time you know why your doctor is concerned about Obamacare.

Doctors already live in constant fear of malpractice lawsuits. The last thing they want to do is stick their necks out and publicly attack Obamacare. Doctors also do not have an effective D.C. lobby group or public advocate.

A 2011 survey by Jackson and Coker reports that most doctors believe the mega-lobbyist group, American Medical Association (AMA), fails to represent docters’ interests on Capitol Hill. Forbes reports: “Much of that...

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