7 out of 10 Doctors Support the Public Option

the three most salient facts about the NEMJ study: 1) the survey was done authored by two noted PUBLIC HEALTH practioners who are already armpit deep in the public health care industry and long-standing advocates of mandatory public health coverage for the poor; 2) the majority of respondents to the survey are public health practioners NOT ASSOCIATED WITH PRIVATE SECTOR HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; and 3) most public health patients do not have a strong, developed relationship with a particular doctor because, like planned under the public option, their doctor is whomever will see them at that point at the public clinic.  welcome to the future world of "public option" health care.

Evidently, these public health docs have swallowed the ObamaCare-Axelrod lie that creating a public option won't drive private insurance out of the marketplace.  It's why the ObamaCare "War on Medicine" is so effective; govt monoply is called "competition", govt interference is called "directed medicine", death panels and death squads are now called "Consumer Advocates"... sort of reminds of the corrupted double-speak of ACORN & those community activists from Chicago.

Of course, the biggest missed fact that Mr Mead50 and his lying President don't want you to know: when asked if the patient wants to be covered under the public option... the answer is an overwhelming NO.  And when the taxpayer is asked to foot the bill for ObamaCare, the answer is NO, no, no.

The headline should read: "Over 90% of Public Health doctors support private health care; only 9.6% support public option".

Naturally, that and the pesky truth doesn't help Mead50 or ObamaCare.  And, in their case, the truth isn't an ally or a friend in the debate.

(sigh)

maybe if you read beyond the headlines, Mead50? 

It can be done even by your side that WANTS to believe there is some shred of legitimacy in radical Left policy.  Public clinicians, like many docs in hospital settings, have their own practice --or, more appropriately-- are part of a larger group practice.  In that sense, they are "private" practice docs for the sole purpose of this public health advocates survey.  To most within the allied health care industry and general public, they are public health clinicians.

Misdirection and desire often coincide in your efforts here to promote an alternate reality.  It's happened repeatedly on health care reform discussions.  It nearly always happens when you provide "neutral" or "independent" observations about what's wrong/right with conservative objections to The Leader's neo-socialism.

Earlier in this health care reform debate, you were trying to argue that prior polling indicated most Americans wanted --nay, demanded-- health care reform with a public ObamaCare option. Of course, you were proven wrong on that point, too, when the question was exposed as a leading push-poll querry: "Would you support a public option if it included allowing private insurance coverage as part of the reform?"

I think something like 68% of Americans said yes to that statement and you concluded, wrongly, that it translated into 2/3rds of Americans demand health care reform with a public option.  No, Mead50, as it was pointed out to you, that meant that 68% of Americans wanted their private insurance coverage to continue and, if that was the case, a public option was acceptable in addition to the private coverage.  But that was before ObamaCare was exposed as a mechanism that would drive private insurance coverage from the marketplace.  I doubt those numbers, if repolled, would even be over 30% now.

Asking a doc if he/she supports a public option --only 9% did, by the way-- is like asking a union hall goon if they support getting tough on Chinese trade.  Of course they do; it's pure self-interest at work... more work, more money.  It's the patients and taxpayers that matter... medical personnel always support new entitlements; it means greener pockets for them and a fatter checkbook at the end of the month.  I bet you're hearing more doc-as-taxpayer in those low stats than any kind of sweeping endorsement of ObamaCare's neo-socialism.

Again, the proper headline for you to have culled from the NEJM "survey" --it ain't a study, btw-- is that an overwhelming number of physicians --even in the public health industry-- support maintaining a private sector driven medical coverage scheme.  Less than 10% support your and ObamaCare's neo-socialistic public option.

Now, who said you can't handle the truth?  Boy, were they right!