Dr. David Scheiner, former doctor of President Obama, appeared on Lou Dobbs’ TV show to criticize his patient’s new health care proposal. He says Obama shouldn’t expand Medicaid because it is “not a good system”, and their patients are treated in a “third class fashion… that’s not the American way of life.” Dr. Scheiner also adds that Medicare needs to be “tightened up.” Dobbs closed the interview by suggesting he should get together with his former patient and talk over “a beer at the White House.”
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I completely agree with this guy. What really needs to be done is to have the insurance companies completely abolished and 100% universal health care which is totally government run brought in. Unfortunately however – that would never have passed. What was done however was definitely a big step in the right direction.
Good for this guy. I’m glad people can find a way to criticize people they disagree with without turning into whiny, screaming lunatics. Take a note, tea partiers.
Thank you Mr. Obama, I sure hope this health care works out. Since you been in elected I’ve lost my job, home, vehicle, health care and savings. You said you were going to make changes, and you did. Now when I crawl out of my cardboard box I feel a lot better knowing that I may have Health Care in the future. It won’t be the Health Care plan that all you politicians have because we know that you people do such a great job and have to be rewarded accordingly. After all money is no object…
This man is a genuine doctor. Shouldn’t the doctors opinions be the most worthwhile on this matter? You dont ask a bricklayer how to repair a book, and the healthcare and pharm corps have poured obscene amounts of money into advertising opposing universal health care. We’re like the only top industrialized nation in the world that doesnt provide care for its citizens! Its absurd!
MD are never ” incentivised” to be carelss, that is a idiotic stament, if not law suits they could lose hosptial privalges, lose their state licence, lose patients if they act that way.
yes but it cost money to defend those junk law suits which should never go to trail & the law firms should know better but instead scatter shot 10 suits, if one or 2 wins they make alot of money for themselves, yet the hospital still have to pay for the other 8 junk suits even if they won. Tort refrom would copy other counties where the loser pay all legal fees to defend. Thus the good law firms would only take on legit claims, self filter the bullshit & save millions a year.
Luckily we have a justice system that determines which law suits are “junk” and which are legitimate and deserving of compensation. All I see caps on malpractice suits doing is incentivising doctors to be careless and increasing profits for big insurance.
maybe on Pluto, but here on Earth it means reducing junk law suits , lower malpratice cost, reducing defensive medicine tests, which means lowering the cost of medcine for all. It also means reducing the number of sleaz bag lawyer with those 1-800-sue-you Tv adds & billboards across the land. If obama could only rise above the tort lobby money.
tort reform = more money for private insurance, doctors not having to worry as much about screwing over patients through malpractice.
which is what the health insurance companies have… which is why they don’t want to pass the anti-trust law…
monoply are never a good idea
no its TORT REFORM, but Obama & the Dem get too much lobby money from the lawers to dare do anthing about it. When the lawers are not complaing about the heath bill u know its a bad bill. just like big tobbacco held off tobbacco laws for years until the pressure was overwhelming…..obama is too smart , he know better but cant spaek the truth in the face of all that cash comming in
free maket, well I think it still is?
If you continuously wreck your car, doesn’t your insurance go up? Of course it does. If your insurance company finally cancels your policy because you obviously can’t drive without having an accident, is that wrong? If you’re costing them more in pay-outs than they’re making in premiums, they’d go broke. Then can you cry when other insurance companies refuse to cover you? No, you’re a bad risk. Why would health insurance be any different? Government would go broke trying to insure everyone.
your question of efficient gov’t services is irrelevant. like ive said, gov’t would NOT be providing service..only a way to pay for health care. if you still want to see the efficiency of that system, you can look at canada, britain, france, etc.
but you basically argue against your own point. basically, you make the case that if you’re too sick, or cost the insurance company too much money, they won’t cover you. do you not see the problem there?
you dont have any facts to back up your bogus arguments. insurance is a numbers game, if you make a ton of claims and lead a dangerous/unhealthy lifestyle, insurance companies wont want to cover you because you cost them too much money. they dont just try to get out of paying claims for any average joe.
look this up. “70% of insured rate health INSURANCE as good or excellent.”
and im still waiting for an answer on what government programs are efficent……
remember cash for clunkers?
again, you confuse health care with health insurance, and you misquote the facts.. 80% of americans are happy with health CARE (you mistakenly said health insurance), which is not the problem.
private insurance companies do not provide you with health care. in fact many times they do the opposite.. they try to DENY care. the bottom line is that for-profit health insurance systems do NOT work for most people.
again, the gov’t would NOT give us health care, only providing a way to pay for it.
idk where you’re from…but private insurance is working just fine for millions of Amreicans. there have been a bunch of polls done which all show more than 80% of Americans are happy with their health insurance. Sure, there are plenty of ways to make private insurance better…but throwing our irresponsible government (which is increasing our debt by the nanosecond) is certainly not the answer.
and im not answering your question until you answer mine. lets have some common courtesy here
1st of all, dmv doesn’t take all that long, depending on where you’re from…
2nd of all, you’re bringing up an irrelevant argument. gov’t wouldnt be running health care… they’d only be paying for it.. there’s a difference.. even if republican talking points don’t suggest it..
3rd.. seriously, single payer is PROVEN to work.. private insurance is NOT working for us.. it’s not difficult..
4th… explain how the current system could possibly be more effective or efficient than single payer
costly and inadequate are words that are much better used to describe the Government, rather than insurance companies. I challenge you to name me one department of the government which is efficient in what it does. you think it would be a breeze to get a cat scan or an MRI with a government run system? why dont you first go to the dmv and see how long it takes for them to change the address on your drivers liscense. U.S. govt is one of the most fiscally irresponsible entities in the world.
actually Germany pretty much is trading in their system for ours, so dont guarantee what you dont know.
also, its not just the rich who come here to get procedures done, its plenty of middle class people who’s Nationalized healthcare system prohibited an operation, procedure, or test of some kind…..on the contrary…how many people from america do you see going to other parts of the world to get healthcare? (excluding those who leave to get extremely dangerous high risk procedures done)
germany doesn’t have a true single payer, but even still, i guarantee that they won’t be trading in their system for ours… no country in their right minds would do such a dumb thing..
and the only reason RICH people from other countries go to the US to get health care is because they can AFFORD it.
you don’t see very many poor people from ANY country going to the US to get medical attention…
don’t get confused, the problem isn’t health CARE, it’s the costly and inadequate health INSURANCE..
if it works fine then why is Germany getting rid of it? and why do people always come to America to get procedures done that their countries healthcare wont cover?….and why is America at the very top of new drug and medical technology production?
seriously, where do you get these numbers from? that’s totally false. 60% of physicians SUPPORT single payer.
and i don’t know if you’re aware, but your theory has been proven false by plenty of countries where single payer actually works, and the people would revolt if they didn’t have. the US is the perfect example of how privatized insurance DOESN’T work.
again, your theory cannot compare with reality.
even obama has stated he KNOWS that not everybody could be covered without single payer
40% of current practicing physicians stated they would quit if a single payer Monopoly dominated the American sceen. How would they argue with a single payer system? what incentive what they have to improve their office care with expensive state-of-the-art equipment & techniques if the reimbursement was the same for average care? answer they couldn’t they would go out of business. A single payer Monopoly is never good for the long run and should be used to cover those that qualify economically.