tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post116178509296628117..comments2023-06-10T05:20:16.484-07:00Comments on Here's To Your Health, America: Back to Your Health, continued....LHwriteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890891351498768757noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post-1161889334941337892006-10-26T12:02:00.000-07:002006-10-26T12:02:00.000-07:00I think the system is broken enough to effect chan...I think the system is broken enough to effect change if the willing politicians are elected. The salary guarantees would be the job---like for anyone else. It would actually put more control of the care into the hands of the physicians. There would merely be more salaried practitioners and less self employed. That would be the greatest change. While it would rightly be presumed that some income was siphoned off to the business end, the high medical inflation rate that has been slightly tamed, is where money was also cut out.LHwriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890891351498768757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30510558.post-1161873778006285932006-10-26T07:42:00.000-07:002006-10-26T07:42:00.000-07:00Yes, indeed! Most physician's offices have become...Yes, indeed! Most physician's offices have become quite clinic-like. Truth be told, docs are no more happy with this situation than their patients. <BR/><BR/>Relieving the business end from docs would [for them] be refreshing and raise significant fears. Docs [correctly] perceive managed care as having succeeded by siphoning off profits from professionals and giving them to silk-suits. They will be suspicious of proposals to limit their control. Thus, your proposal would have to include salary guarantees of some sort. <BR/><BR/>I agree that a crisis mentality is needed...no one seems willing to spend the political capital...the Clintons spent much of theirs years ago. Not since then has an influencial politician [of any stripe] been willing to risk political capital on this issue. That has to change. <BR/><BR/>My fear is that the system will have to break more before there is momentum. I hope I am wrong.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.com