drelainageorge.com WaPo – Doctors Reap Benefits By Doing Own Tests: tinyurl.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com
Popular Posts:
- I need pros and cons about Obama’s healthcare reform bill…?
- Advice on health care reform law offered at KC forums
- Health-care reform topic of employers’ seminar
- New Health Care Bill Pros and Cons
- Liberal minded folk arent you enraged that illegals arent included in the official healthcare bills at all?
I agree with the doctor completely except for one issue. I used to work for a lab at a hospital and I can tell you all the medical personnel do WAYYY more blood tests than they need to. It is certainly not the minimum and I think hospitals speak the majority over private practice. They actually have regulations to run all sorts of tests that make it seem the necessary and minimum when in reality not even half of the tests are necessary. I mean they make hundreds of dollars per vial of blood.
@John6verse27 It was 2 years at my old school
Netherland & Switzerland, 99% coverage and no public plan, but insurance companies are regulated like utility companies. Taiwan & Singapore have best medical care system in the world, 99% coverage, high quality, NO WAITING, and they are government run with less 5% GDP. Unreasonable premium, preexisting condition exclusion, changing drug formulary, deny treatment, medicare drug GAP for Senior are just plain wrong. Come on my fellow American, let us fix the healthcare for our children sakes!
Great interview. There is a lot more to this than just “give me health care”. It is a very confusing matter – designed to keep us from knowing! A lot of us would do well to start exercising & eating better. You think we have health issues as adults now. Just wait for the next generation. A lot of these children are raised on McDonald’s & Taco Bell. We start on the school food being fed to them. Also, gym is not a mandatory 4 years class in High School.
this was a classy interview, learned a lot.
A thoughtful woman,indeed. But she’ll defend doctors to death, and here I’m on the side of Cenk and the facts LOL
1). They do get fees per service.
2). In most places they get higher fees even for prescribing and administering a MORE EXPENSIVE drug!
Study after study shows that with this system the number of performed services goes up (compared to salary-based places)
That said, I also heard that with or without that “public” option,insurers and drug companies LOVE the bills. It’s bad news.
I apologize for my previous comment.
Dr. Elainia George obviously is from the Jane Hamsher/Cenk Uygur school of thought. I’m just interested as to why she posted on Bitchbart’s website.
Awesome interview … until it turned out that she was basically saying what Cenk and other progressives have been saying all along.
Honestly, isn’t there a single health care debate which presents two intelligent opposing sides?
Her proposals around 11:00 are just right but i would add Medicare for all
Cenk drives home another excellent interview.
@DanCdn
Well, if you think Cenk’s misusing the points of the one being interviewed, you’ll hate 95% of all other interviews much more than this one, because those are often just off the chain.
She brought up excellent points about medicare not paying enough and insurance sucking the money out of everything.
We need to tackle impoverishing wages, lopsided taxes, and our deep pockets legal system that makes lawyers and insurance companies rich. If we fix that, everything else falls into place.
She’s dead wrong about doctors not being motivated by how they get paid, though. Doctors are no more honest than anyone else, maybe less so from my experience.
I watch all TYT videos daily and they are great. But on the interviews Cenk, you need to listen to your guests more. During the interviews all you seem to be listening for are points that can appear to reinforce your own positions… and then you hijack the guest’s point of view to make your own. This interview is a classic example…. quite unfortunate.
I like her tax right off suggestions.I have not seen any projections on the cost but it could be the cheapest way to treat the uninsured. Especially for hospitals that eat the cost.
She is very pro-doctor, which is fine. I think you have to have two conversations when discussing health care costs. 1) doctors 2) hospitals; the cost drivers for each are almost reversed and dealings with insurance companies are completely reversed. Hospital networks dictate cost to insurance companies.
TV is a poor standard to hold anything to. The fact is that Cenk’s only solution to anything is “the government will do it”, which is a non-answer. If he actually had the facts to debate the specifics that Dr. George was willing to get into, he knows he would have been fisked, so instead he resorts to his usual broad, obscure bugaboos. Its a “reasonable” interview, but you can count on Cenk A. not looking up the facts B. not altering his position C. continuing to call opposition “loonies”.
Dr. George has some common sense ideas. i wouldn’t mind her approach, and it sounds more like the “good ole days” that people whine about.
I wanna slap politicians across the face every single one of them a big slap.
In many ways the Peoples Republic of China’s government is a better system, they don’t need to worry about some of these dumb politics since there is no elections, in many ways it much more efficient and better overall for the people!
But I still like democracy, but I feel in many ways politicians need to be slapped across the face and when they screw over the people they need to be held accountable!
awesome interview. great stuff that is just totally absent from the mainstream media.
I agree with you. I think though, her views were actually a nail on the head. She said that both versions of the bill is corrupt–something which I agree with. The ways she explained the faultiness of the bills is something that is in the minds of many Americans including myself. The health-care bill in its purest form, is doable. Thus I believe her defense for private practitioners was a reasonable position.
It is soooo nice to see a well balanced, respectful and smart conversation
Oh I agree that her view was balanced – but the state should serve the interests of it’s people first.
@abortabraham
I think Cenk was very reasonable in this interview.
I actually haven’t heard more reasonable interviewers on blogs on TV, so I think your view is just wrong.
VERY good interview. Learned some new things.
Thank you. We need more media like this. Please!
She was speaking for all private practitioners. The “wider concept” involves them too. I think her view is as balanced as any that has been proposed thus far.
wow… that was a really good interview and she totally changed my mind about the healthcare bill. I was saying “well its better than nothing” but I just cant see that as true any more. In this case you have to go all or nothing. Either go universal or dont change it at all.