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| Maine Doctors Gone Wild | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 31 2011, 05:36 PM (174 Views) | |
| Jolly | May 31 2011, 05:36 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Is medicine regressing in Maine? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/30docs.html |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Steve Miller | May 31 2011, 06:50 PM Post #2 |
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Not just Maine: "But doctors are changing. They are abandoning their own practices and taking salaried jobs in hospitals, particularly in the North, but increasingly in the South as well. Half of all younger doctors are women, and that share is likely to grow. There are no national surveys that track doctors’ political leanings, but as more doctors move from business owner to shift worker, their historic alliance with the Republican Party is weakening from Maine as well as South Dakota, Arizona and Oregon, according to doctors’ advocates in those and other states." And the money quote: "But doctors in Maine have abandoned the ownership of practices en masse, and their politics and points of view have shifted dramatically. The Maine doctors’ group once opposed health insurance mandates because they increase costs to employers, but it now supports them, despite Republican opposition, because they help patients. . What a concept! Edited by Steve Miller, May 31 2011, 06:50 PM.
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| Jolly | Jun 1 2011, 03:52 AM Post #3 |
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How can it help patients for doctors to see fewer patients and do less procedures? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Steve Miller | Jun 1 2011, 06:20 AM Post #4 |
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Are they doing that? |
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| Jolly | Jun 1 2011, 02:59 PM Post #5 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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If one person works eight hours a day and another person with a similar job works twelve hours a day, assuming equal skills, which one produces more work per day? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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