Medicare query
Jun 23rd 2009, 4:35 am
#31
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Re: Medicare query
I think there are several of us on here who feel the same way. I would not stay here for one day without insurance...too risky.
Jun 23rd 2009, 5:23 am
#32
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Re: Medicare query
It's the insurance companies who would (and should, IMHO) lose out big time. If it were done well.
Sadly, I doubt that it will be done well.
Jun 23rd 2009, 5:56 am
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Re: Medicare query
Bevan had a massive fight with doctors in the UK who wanted to remain the snooty masters of the poor rather than a service provider. My mother used to virtually grovel at the knees of the doctor and look at the floor when he came to our house.
I never saw her give my father as much respect though he deserved 10 times as much. 'Married with children' is so true - I digress
July 5th 1948 is the most glorious day in the history of Britain. All the other celebrated days are more about wars and battles which were more about death than life
Bevan faced further, and stiffer, opposition from members of the British Medical Association (BMA) who were particularly alarmed by his intention to end the sale and purchase of GPs’ practices and to introduce a basic salary as part of doctors’ pay. To the BMA's chairman, Guy Dain, the proposal was ‘part of the nationalization programme which is being pursued by the Government.’ In the opinion of Alfred Cox, a former BMA official, Bevan’s plan suggested ‘the first step, and a big one, towards National Socialism as practised in Germany … under the dictatorship of a “medical Fuehrer”.’
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/fr...gazine/health/
Wont be long before Obama is called a dictator by the vested interests
I never saw her give my father as much respect though he deserved 10 times as much. 'Married with children' is so true - I digress
July 5th 1948 is the most glorious day in the history of Britain. All the other celebrated days are more about wars and battles which were more about death than life
Bevan faced further, and stiffer, opposition from members of the British Medical Association (BMA) who were particularly alarmed by his intention to end the sale and purchase of GPs’ practices and to introduce a basic salary as part of doctors’ pay. To the BMA's chairman, Guy Dain, the proposal was ‘part of the nationalization programme which is being pursued by the Government.’ In the opinion of Alfred Cox, a former BMA official, Bevan’s plan suggested ‘the first step, and a big one, towards National Socialism as practised in Germany … under the dictatorship of a “medical Fuehrer”.’
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/fr...gazine/health/
Wont be long before Obama is called a dictator by the vested interests
