SwimExpert
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And all you idiots like Obama that have used UK/Canada as role models for single payer???
See what is happening to your "role models"!
Medics are walking out from 8am to 5pm today and tomorrow as the row over 7-day contracts explodes. Follow live updates here
Junior doctors are making history by staging the first all-out strike since the NHS launched in 1948.
How does the strike affect your medical care? Find out here.
Jeremy Hunt has admitted that 'this is likely to be my last big job in politics', in an interview this morning.
The Health Secretary had begged junior doctors to halt the strike,warning it would cost lives and the BMA union "wanted war". But the BMA warned he, not medics, will have blood on his hands - both legally and in the public's eyes.
Live updates as junior doctors stage first full all-out strike in NHS history
These results are clearly visible in Sweden. There are very few private practices left. Of the few that are left, most are part of the national insurance system. A huge bureaucracy has been erected to take on all the necessary central planning of public and pseudo-private healthcare.
When Swedes go to the polls every four years, they vote on three levels of government: national, landsting, and kommun. A landsting is a regional mid-level type of government and there are 20 of them. The landstings are almost entirely devoted to managing public healthcare. They are always short on funding and regularly make losses.
The advantage of a free market system, as I am sure the venerable professor Frank knows, is that supply and demand meet to form prices. These prices are signals to the practitioners and tell them what their patients need and value most. If there were a sudden surge in demand for open-heart surgery, the price of that service would, ceteris paribus, rise. The practitioners would be motivated by the rising price to move into fields where they can make higher profits
The Truth About SwedenCare
What the hell are you bitching about this time?
Because you idiots that use the above "single payer" as role models... GET ready because it is happening here!
Health Policy Experts Anticipate Fewer Doctors, Less Productivity Under Obamacare
Health Policy Experts Anticipate Fewer Doctors, Less Productivity Under Obamacare
Under Obamacare, doctors have been strained by costly new regulations, intricate payment “reforms” that tie their Medicare reimbursement to complex federal reporting requirements, and mandates that they install and make “meaningful” use of electronic health records.
Physicians for Reform :: New Estimate Of Obamacare's Fiscal Impact On Private Doctor Practices
Add a new burden to the mix: The proportion of patients they see are rapidly shifting away from commercial health plans and toward Medicaid, which sometimes pays doctors pennies on the dollar that they were previously reimbursed under private insurance.
Obamacare deals blow to one-doctor medicine
Despite the predictions of fortune tellers in politics and think tanks, we won’t know for years whether the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will ultimately leave people sicker or healthier, richer or poorer.
Yet already the law, coming on top of previous legislation, is speeding the demise of an American small-business institution; the one-doctor medical practice.
Physicians for Reform :: Obamacare deals blow to one-doctor medicine
What the hell are you bitching about this time?