Poll: Doctors Among Public Option's Biggest Fans

so, the other 23 per cent???

There are two sides to every story...read on
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...aspx?id=506199
"45% of doctors would consider quitting if Congress passes health care overhaul"

Quote from the article in investors.com
"More than seven in 10 doctors, or 71% — the most lopsided response in the poll — answered "no" when asked if they believed "the government can cover 47 million more people and that it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better." Gee, wonder why they didn't just ask if they would support a public option?

Not too sure if I'm a big fan of the public option. To me it just seems like a dead bill now.

I'm starting to think I was misinformed about this whole thing. My opposition to Hillary was she wanted "socialized" medicine. Everyone getting the same care. Sounds great - not going to happen. We still live in a country built on and thriving on capitalism. I'm not against someone making a buck. My problem is, at what cost?

My idea of what Obama was proposing was that everyone that wanted healthcare, and wanted to pay into healthcare, would be given an opportunity to buy into a system equal to what the public servants..aka the Senate, government employees, etc., had the opportunity to buy into. I had this idea that it would be a sliding scale kind of thing.

Example: Joe Blow is making x amount of money and has the option of paying $900/mo for healthcare for a family of 4. This is too much. Which leads to a) no health insurance and b) using the ER as primary care which continues to drive up the cost. So now we offer Mr. Blow an option to pay $100 or so enough until the family gets on their feet and can contribute more.

For those that don't want to even try...well...sorry. For those that want to, give them the opportunity, and once they figure out how to manage their upside down mortgage that they never should have been allowed to get into , they will pay what they can to provide their family with coverage available to those that vote (pretty unanimously) on their own pay raises.

I've seen how an uninsured teenager went from not being able to manage her type 1 Diabetes d/t insufficient funds and lack of PREVENTATIVE CARE led to a stroke at 18 and will now be a multiple million dollar burden on the healthcare system. If only someone could have checked her sugars, provided her insulin...etc., etc., etc. Now she qualifies for disability and will be a burden on the system when this all could have been avoided.

Silly naive girl I guess. I had better hope for what this public "option" was going to be. Is starting to sound like less of an "option".

I dont know why people are against the public option. It doesn't effect your current insurance if you have it. It just gives people an affordable option that otherwise wouldn't have one... meanwhile, insurance companies know they have to lower their costs, or else the public option will become a big option for everyone. This creates competition and lowers prices for everyone. This is why monopolies are not allowed.. we should extend the same rules to the healthcare industry. A public option will break the hold insurance companies have on people....

Look at colleges.. there are public schools and private schools. Private schools compete with the public schools and are able to keep their attendance rates just as high as the public schools. But now, kids with less money are able to go to school and get an affordable education. People that want a private school education are still able to if they can afford it. With a public option, this is all that would be happening.. I don't see the problem with that.

Why are people afraid of the public option...??...because they are being told to be afraid. Because the opponents call it "socialism" with the intent of generating fear in the generation who battled communism with the USSR. Because the insurance companies are spending an unprecedented $1.4 million dollars per day to advertise and promote the "anti-public option" stance (this figure from the winner of the 2008 nobel prize for economics). People are afraid because they are being told that death panels will kill gramma and that suddenly health care will be rationed by the government. They seem eager to believe almost anything negative said about this proposal and reluctant to examine the facts about our current system. There are influential people in this country...people with access to the mass media...who are in the business of generating fear on this topic primarily to further their partisan political agendas. Their opposition to healthcare reform certainly appears to be more about opposition to the man and the party than it is to actual reform. Honest, thoughtful consideration of the facts about healthcare in the USA, including an evaluation of how well the insurance industry is SERVING the american public can only result in the observation that change is needed. It is clear that our current system is too costly. It is clear that our system does not provide adequate coverage for all citizens needing healthcare. It is clear that our health outcomes are suffering and declining. It is clear that insurance companies have become more and more intrusive in deciding who will get what, when, where, and by whom. What is not clear to me is why people don't seem to mind that massively wealthy insurance companies currently make decisions about rationing their healthcare based SOLELY upon profit/loss margins but they are scared to pieces that the government MIGHT ration care even though there is no evidence of rationing in the other established government run systems (medicare and VA). It is not clear to me why these scared people are not scared of the insurance companies' hold on their healthcare access. Why are they not outraged that the insurance companies currently decide what tests they may have, what procedures they may have, what doctors they may use, how often they may change their ostomy appliance, which medications will be covered, whether or not they need a wheelchair or scooter....the list could go on and on. Why are these scared people not scared of that? Why are they not angry that insurance companies deny somewhere up to 30% of ALL medical claims that are presented to them?? http://www.reuters.com/article/press...09+PRN20090902
We do need to embrace our heritage and identity of a capitalist republic. We do not need to be slaves to and victims of greed...the mean and ugly step sister of capitalism. Insurance companies and doctors have a right to make a profit. Insurance companies should not have the right to routinely deny people care in order to increase their profits. Until we can educate the frightened masses we will not have meaningful healthcare reform and that is tragic. The people who are fear mongering should be ashamed.

hmmm, this is ironic. just got back from a weekend part-time gig in memphis. bunch of unit nurses disscussed this very issue with all the doc's and residents that came through the units while i was on duty. out of around 40 to 50 docs/residents maybe only 5 was for it. the rest were very against it. heck i venture to make a bet if they polled all the mds and mds in training 70% would be against it.