http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/14/republicans-fight-to-preserve-doctor-pay Comments On: Republicans fight to preserve doctor pay by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Foreign doctors often have their education paid for, so they don't have the debt our doctors have. That means they live as well on less money coming in. Changes their way of looking at things.
Posted by rablib]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:34 -0600 Arkansas Times I don't mind being treated for routine things by a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner, many practices have that going on already.

As far as doctors go, not many people are going to go to through the labor of US medical school and come out with such debt only to be told how to practice medicine and be paid a pittance. Foreign docs are such a good deal since they are happy since they are making so much more money than they would in their own countries even at reduced US rates.

So the effect of OCare is that we will now have exported jobs away from Americans.
Posted by Tortie_Tude]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:09:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:01:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:24:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Kate]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:13:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
I don't have insurance, but I do have basic healthcare. It is easier to get an appointment with my doctor that it is with the nurse practitioner. It also costs less, but given the choice I would take my nurse practitioner.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:30:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:29:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:26:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:22:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:03:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
And yet the conservatives tell us that competition can solve the problem.

How can there be competition when there are not enough doctors to go around?

Cost would go down if there were more providers, but the accrediting bodies have a vested interest in the continuation of an inadequate supply of providers.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:42:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:37:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
Surgeons and other specialists deserve the pay they get. The days of the kindly old country doctor- and I am old enough to remember them- are long gone. The modern analogue is only available in large metro areas; the "boutique" or "concierge" doctors with a client list of wealthy subscribers.
Posted by Atlas999]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:08:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
My new giant black doctor is very very nice. He's got a very nice car and wears only the finest suits and flies home to Africa to visit several times a year. I'm glad for him, but his doctoring reminds me of Lucy & Ethel wrapping those chocolate kisses coming down the conveyor belt. In yada yada blood test Out walk walk walk Wal-Mart pharmacy 4 dollars except for my insulin pens which went up to 285 dollars per filling.

We got medical care too big to fail. But I'm still thankful I am now allowed to pay 255 dollars per month in order to buy two 4 dollar bottles of medicine though it only pays 20 bucks towards the 205 dollar box of insulin pens. Now why should I bitch?

Obama threatens to pay medical providers less in the future which means old people will never find a doctor who'll accept Medicare patients....it's already happening to my older friends. I don't know the cure because ain't no doctor or hospital is willing to make less though now we'll endure months and months of well off people laughing at poor people hoping to make that 9 dollars per hour Obama promised. We're in a helluva mess.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:12:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
Doctors who live in the past and want to continue pay for services need to move to a rich commune, i.e., Chenal or Maumelle or Beverly Hills but insurers will follow ways to reduce costs and they need to get in the plan or retire!
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:29:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
We're not in a recession.

"If you want to know where Obamacare will take us with premium increases then take a look at where Romneycare in Massachusetts has taken them."

Massachusetts's health-insurance premium growth declined relative to the nation as a whole in the years since Romneycare has been enacted. From 2006 to 2010, employer-sponsored health-care premiums for a family rose about 19% in Massachusetts, while they rose about 22% in the US as a whole. Compare that to the period between 2002 and 2006, when Bay State family premiums increased 40% and US family premiums rose only 34.5%. Family premiums have seen the greatest reduction in growth since Romneycare; individual premiums have also slowed their rate of growth, though by not as much. For both family and individual premiums, the rate of growth fell below the national average in the period between 2008 and 2010.

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Did you have a point to any of your rambling, other than to show, yet again, that you have no idea what you are talking about?
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:10:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:55:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
A physician's assistant is much, much more than a glorified nurse. My apologies to nurses because the vast majority of them are top notch and doing yeoman's work in the delivery of health care.

My sister, just this week, chose a PA in Albuquerque to be her primary care provider. Her HMO did not renew their agreement with the doctor's group she was seeing. She had an issue that was urgent, but not an emergency. After going to a group that had a "Walk-ins welcome" sign and waiting 2 hours, she went elsewhere and found this lady and is very pleased. She won't be getting brain surgery from her, but was very satisfied that she is competent to handle most of her needs.
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:53:32 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LiberalRepublican]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:42:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LiberalRepublican]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:40:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
We must retain Arkansas as a fact-free zone.
We must retain Arkansas as a fact-free zone.
We must retain Arkansas as a fact-free zone...
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:23:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
Where was that AR doctor from, the one who netted over $800K last year, mostly from Medicare/aid, in a rural hospital? Seems he'd be a perfect candidate for some NP competition.
Posted by munkle]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:32:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:20:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
So...if I am understanding the R's correctly, you cannot tie a Dr.'s pay to his/her performance. That would be silly, right? Making the Dr. responsible for a patients bad choices and punishing the dr for that choice.

Of course, the above is TOTALLY different in a school setting where one teacher's pay should be directly tied to the performance of her/his students.

It would be such fun for a reporter to ask some of the R's about this.
Posted by joesixpack]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:51:55 -0600 Arkansas Times