Glenn Beck vs. Doctors on Healthcare Reform

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Of course the grand doctors that you paint in the picture are going to be for the Health Care Reform, Who do you think pays them... o that's right the GOVERNMENT. If i was a doctor and i was told that my salary would go up bookoo bucks, then i would be telling everyone i knew that this health care reform is good. Remember this though, Every time the government adds a law, a freedom is taken away. So when you get an IRS worker showing up at your door saying that the health care plan you have right now isn't good enough you need to upgrade to this one and it will only cost you $50 more a month. But, then when you say no i can't afford that health care plan, they fine you an X amount of money a month for not having the GOVERNMENTS DAMN HEALTH CARE. So when they say America is a free country, shes not, we have to do what the government says. Sure, this plan works for those people tat can't afford health care or have an outstanding hospital bill because then the "Obamabucs" will cover them. But, if we open up the borders for health care instead of it staying in one state the that will drive the competition up,and in tern the prices will drop an enormous amount. America is slowly getting back to the way we started in Europe. That is bad, we as a country need to turn things around and have the people control it, not the government.

Drake Siwicki of IL 4:04PM April 27, 2010

I've noticed how Farrell loves to slander Glenn Beck, it's great. When you pay attention to both, you quickly realize who's arrangements have merit and who's doesn't. By making such a big deal about him he give Beck even more name recognition and give people a chance to hear real arguments with proof to back it up.

Jerry of IL 3:24PM March 24, 2010

Your assertion that most physicians and other healthcare professionals support this monstrosity of government intrusion is absolutely based upon wishful thinking and a need to support your own way of thinking. I am a practicing physician who sees a large number of Medicare patients precisely because many of the other physicians in my area won't see them any more. In the state of Iowa where I practice the reimbursement rates are some of the lowest in the country and don't even cover our costs. I have had to hire additional staff just to handle the exponential increase in paperwork that has proliferated over the last 10 years alone. My patients are already expressing fear and concern that they will find it difficult to get the care they need in the future as more physicians stop seeing these patients due to the proposed cuts in Medicare. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the results of a survey of practicing physicians that indicated up to 30% are seriously considering retiring from the practice of medicine should this bill become law. You do the math... 30% few physicians, 30+ million newly insured = longer wait times and reduced access to care. I won't even begin to comment on the fact that this monstrosity will bankrupt this nation for generations to come. I find your insinuation that physicians are more concerned with "maintaining their tee times" insulting. I work 70-80 hour weeks routinely and am never truly "off call". I make a comfortable living, but am not rich. Most of my colleagues are of like mind and to say that because the AMA supports this legislation most physicians support it as well is just wrong. The AMA's membership is at its lowest level in decades because they have become more concerned with photo ops and being part of the inside the beltway crowd of elites than they are with looking out for the interests of physicians and their patients.

Marc L. Wilkinson, M.D. of IA 8:12PM March 23, 2010

First of all what do nuns and sister mary catherin have to do with health care?
My entire family is involved in health care, my mother was a nurse, father a radiologist, uncle is nursing assistant, aunt; radiology techinician. Many of our close family friends are also physicians or work in the health care industry. I have been open to the health care reform from the begining, because the insurance part of health care needs to be changed. But that's just it, the problem is that while they somewhat change insurance policies, they also take a lot of control over doctors, treatment policies, methods, and many other parts of Health care that have nothing to do with insurance. The statement Farrell makes really angers me, because I know for a face that EVERY SINGLE health care worker I asked said this was a horrible idea and the system we have is much better than what they want to do. We need a change that works, not something in the government's interest! There is one thing Farrell is right about, I do trust the doctors, nurses, and health care workers! I dont' trust politicians, especially with my health care options and career. Only it's not the republicans trying to make these negative changes, it's the democrats.

Aleks Band of WA 1:28AM March 22, 2010

Hi, I am an American (actually I have duel citizenship for the U.S. & Canada), anyway I am an American living in Canada, but I work in the U.S. Will I be forced to buy health insurance in the U.S. when I don't need it as I have medicare in Canada??????

Bill Conley 6:47PM March 21, 2010

I am so fascinated by this argument. Did you know that the "socialist system" exists right now. If you loose your insurance with your job, and there is little incentive for insurance companies to keep you on their rolls at lower cost, you get treatment in the "free" public sector. Which by the way, is not free, we taxpayers cover the care. If reform is passed and works, this system will be replaced by a market structure that gets almost everyone into the open market for health care. The public sector will be forced to compete with the private providers of care for the customers for whom they used to be the provider of last resort. If private providers out compete their public counterparts, the reform bill is apt to kill off the last vestige of true socialized medicine in our country. What is being proposed is not a single payer system ala Government Health.

Marc of WA 6:16PM March 21, 2010

The Senate version clearly allows for subsidies to help pay for the MANDATED policies of those who cannot afford their MANDATED policies. Most of which cover abortions.
OUR taxdollars WILL pay for this! No Agruement!
Although many "Medical Organizations" have placed (bought)support behind these bills, there are roughly 48% of Medical professionals that vow to hang up their coats if this becomes law.
More people to serve and less people to serve them...?
Just like the Credit card law passed intended to HELP us...it has resulted in higher costs in interest and fees.
Worse than ANT facts concerning these Bills, The time, effort wasted pursuing the "Agenda" has ignored the REAL problems facing America today.
Americans are worried about JOBS, HOMES, affordable FOOD and ENERGY.
In "survival mode", as most Americans are....
HealthCare becomes secondary!

Chris Petty of GA 2:36PM March 21, 2010

Most medical professionals---doctors, nurses, paramedics, therapists, etc.---support this bill. If anything, the biggest problem they have with this bill is that it is too modest, too mild. It doesn't go nearly far enough in solving our health care issues.
And, most religious people I know are for this bill too. Especially the Christians. You see, they took what Jesus said about helping other people, very seriously. They know that the purpose of our health care system shouldn't be primarily about giving a good "Return On Investment" to rich shareholders.

Jim Cap of NJ 4:25PM March 20, 2010

I am so tired of hearing all this hogwash about the health care bill allowing the use of federal money for abortions. This simply isn't true.
But even if it were, so what? Abortion is a legal medical procedure. As such, it should be covered like any other medical procedure.
Since when do American taxpayers have the right to cherry-pick where each dime of their tax dollars goes? If that were the case, none of my taxes would have gone to support the Bush administration's immoral wars of choice, or for corporate welfare. But I didn't have that choice. And neither do the anti-abortion crowd.

Brent of MO 8:48AM March 20, 2010

Go study and learn for yourself. You will learn that Canada's system is bankrupt and provides poor service. You wait a half a year just to have a surgery. Here, the doctor can get you in within two weeks. In Canada, you are dead and cold in the ground before your name makes it to the top of the waiting list. England has crap for doctors, massive waiting lines, poor service, and things that aren't covered and drugs that aren't available that would cure/solve your problem, it's just too expensive so the government refuses. You have limited elective surgery, etc. It's a nightmare. Nowhere in the history of the world has a government been able to demonstrate affordable health insurance that meets everyone's needs and wants without causing it's other programs to suffer like, military, pensions, infrastructure improvements/renovations.
You will also learn that we already hemorrhage billions current health related expenditures. It is anywhere between 37% and 64% of the GDP. The variance is because of how and what gets counted where. For example do VA health benefits get counted as Health related expenditures or military expenditures, etc.

david of ID 6:48PM March 19, 2010