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Spoon Man · 03-30-2010, 08:12 AM

Pietvo, I you hit the nail on the head about our culture. We all want "something for nothing" and it does get out of hand. People will find a way to sue a doctor, because its a way to get a lot of cash in a relative short period of time. Sure, there is malpractice sometimes, but not all of the time that people say there is. So yes, our expenses go up because doctors need to have malpractice insurance, and they more people file malpractice suites, the more the malpractice insurance costs, which gets filtered into the cost of your doctor visits and whatnot.

However, there is another reason. Doctors have to pay their entire way through school (just like most everyone else in the US) and that is a lot of money. Most of them pay through loans, and this path would not be worth while for them if they couldn't make enough to pay it all back in a relatively decent amount of time. Whereas in a lot of other developed nations that I have seen a large portion of a doctor's college and so forth is covered by the government.

I would like to say something about those families who just can't afford health care (don't we love that blanket term? in the US its not really health care so much as sick care that people do.) I've seen too many families who claim that they "cannot afford health care" and use food stamps, WICK, and other amenities provided by the government, but walk around on their iPhones with unlimited data packages and have a huge 50" LCD HD tv in their living room and have $100+ articles of clothing on.
Yes, there are some people who do not go to the doctor because it honestly doesn't fit into the budget, and that is unfortunate. I would like to see some people get together to help those individuals out and I think it could happen because the number is not large. We here in the US are so concerned with what others in other countries think about us, and how much we give to help starving children in Africa and Asia (noble causes that I support, don't get me wrong here) but we do not seem to care about the people on our soil quite so much. I think we should fix what we have here before we fix whats in the world. But I don't think that this bill is the right way to go about doing it.

03-30-2010, 08:12 AM	#52
Spoon Man Groupie Posts: 188 Karma: 3002 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: Kindle 1	Pietvo, I you hit the nail on the head about our culture. We all want "something for nothing" and it does get out of hand. People will find a way to sue a doctor, because its a way to get a lot of cash in a relative short period of time. Sure, there is malpractice sometimes, but not all of the time that people say there is. So yes, our expenses go up because doctors need to have malpractice insurance, and they more people file malpractice suites, the more the malpractice insurance costs, which gets filtered into the cost of your doctor visits and whatnot. However, there is another reason. Doctors have to pay their entire way through school (just like most everyone else in the US) and that is a lot of money. Most of them pay through loans, and this path would not be worth while for them if they couldn't make enough to pay it all back in a relatively decent amount of time. Whereas in a lot of other developed nations that I have seen a large portion of a doctor's college and so forth is covered by the government. I would like to say something about those families who just can't afford health care (don't we love that blanket term? in the US its not really health care so much as sick care that people do.) I've seen too many families who claim that they "cannot afford health care" and use food stamps, WICK, and other amenities provided by the government, but walk around on their iPhones with unlimited data packages and have a huge 50" LCD HD tv in their living room and have $100+ articles of clothing on. Yes, there are some people who do not go to the doctor because it honestly doesn't fit into the budget, and that is unfortunate. I would like to see some people get together to help those individuals out and I think it could happen because the number is not large. We here in the US are so concerned with what others in other countries think about us, and how much we give to help starving children in Africa and Asia (noble causes that I support, don't get me wrong here) but we do not seem to care about the people on our soil quite so much. I think we should fix what we have here before we fix whats in the world. But I don't think that this bill is the right way to go about doing it.