45 caliber
In my opinion there is a tsunami coming where price controls by the government (with the single payer system), rising costs of medical school tuition (without subsidy by the government), rising malpractice rates (no tort reform with price controls) and draconian practice regulations by the government will lead to the majority of physicians (including the best and brightest) to either retire, leave the country (many countries pay a whole lot more money for American board certified physicians than other countries), or scale back their practice to reflect the limited and sporadic disbursement by the government. For those with high debt loads, I believe they will leave the country for greener pastures.
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45 caliber what you have posted about doctors and salary are completely true. I offer my perspective: the state and federal government back during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s heavily subsidized medical education. During that period of time many graduates of medical school did not worry about how much they would be paid but what type of doctor (primary care vs. specialty). Many politicians (state and federal)became outraged about how wealthy many doctors were saying they could take out loans and pay off their education. Thus a rule was made that medical schools and academic hospitals must generate revenues for the general university wide. Thus the whole medical school budget was chopped up and split up between each student leading...

Back when I was applying for college, I had great entrance exam scores but realized I could not afford the expensive private schools. I instead cobbled enough money together to attend the state university. During my freshman year I rapidly found out that education is what you get out of it. Many of my friends and I (we were engineer and hardcore science majors) were busy in the dorms studying for our next calculus, chemistry, and physics test when outside of my dorm were many the so-called liberal arts majors from communications to english majors were protesting the Iraq war. I once asked said protester about how many credits they were taking and how many tests/projects a weeks they were required to do. Shockingly, they told me...

The ACLU is another government sponsored nonprofit (funded by civil rights lawsuits) like NPR and PBS that without proper oversight (public or private)has rotted to the core. The easiest way to have them wither on the vine is
1. Tort reform: civil rights cases will not pay the lawyers or groups involved the cost of case unless they win and they will have to pay the other sides costs (for wasting taxpayer money) if they lose
2. No public funding for NPR and PBS (then they will have to truly know what the public wants or end up being bought up by an entertainment company)

Control and language defined the highly centralized oppressive regimes in the book 1984. Hope and Change means Hopelessness and Oppression. Health Care Reform stands as equality of access really means an equality of access to misery (except for the Party supporters and the Government). Cap and trade as a way of saving the world from toxic CO2 means destroying the world of personal liberty to live as an individual sees fits.

Ignorance can only be countered truly by constant confrontation; constant confrontation with the truth.

I suppose when the newspaper printing press was invented and newspaper presses competed with town criars. The town criars asked the government for a bailout because how could they compete with a new media that could convey so much information.

Newspapers are just like the milk man, the ice man, chiminy sweeps, etc either they adjust with new technology or get swept aside by journalism on tv/cable news, blogs, and the internet. The reason they are asking for a bailout is because they are "being smoked" by the competition due to poor biased journalism by the newspaper.

Any college degree that has a direct outlet into career fields who are mostly employed by for profit business such as engineering, business, and hard sciences (biochemistry, chemistry, some biology) or professional schools such as pharmacology and medicine will always have competitive pressure to mantain the rigorous nature of said degree. Businesses wish to get the bang for the buck in the reputation of the school.

Other degrees more nebulous such as _______ (insert politically correct group) studies, english, art, political science, and other liberal arts studies do not have competitive pressure to churn out worthwhile graduates because either these are teaching degrees for government run schools or new hirees for politically...

(President Obama speaking)
"You sir are a politician and a liar but I repeat myself."

The funniest thing about the proposed legislation is it is supposed to save the government money but the CBO says it would cost even more than the current system we have.

Would any American go to a restaurant &/or business pay more, wait longer for service, obtain poorer quality of product, have less choice, and the business hours were shortened due to poor funding?

If you said yes, then tell your Congressman and Senator, you love Obama care.

If you are like everybody else and said no. I would recommend calling your Congressman and Senator and telling them this is worse than Medicare and Medicaid.

Universal health care means universal misery.

3. Free health care does not mean easy access or quality of care. There are only limited numbers of physicians/specialist who can see people. (Reference the Massachusetts situation) Price controls on health care only ensures scarcity of qualified professionals and resources. Therefore expect mass exoduses or retirements of physicians/specialist if price controls are induced.

4. Increased cost and decrease efficiency per patient. Contrary to what people sell you on for socialized medicine. There is increase cost, for every government dime or program, there is paperwork that has to be done. Physicians swamped or overloaded with patients will either be charged with doing the paperwork or somebody will have to be hired by...