45% of Doctors Would Consider Quitting

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Damocles said:
Because Grind said he was the reason that the rep was that low.
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damo...don't ruin my fun....

we don't know if watermark read that post, and yes, i already knew that because grind did mention it.....why did watermark feel he had to be johnny come lately and mention it......

now you've blown it
 
This is about the worst poll ever done.

These are the pollsters that claimed McCain was going to take the youth vote by huge margins. They're also the people who said if Stephen Hawking lived in England he'd have been put to death by the national health service (despite the fact that Hawking has lived in England his entire life).

This is the dumbest poll ever, and Damo's about the dumbest person ever for buying it. I'm sure 45 percent of doctors after 12-16 years of medical school would just up and quit their jobs if the person paying them changed.

Damo, you are really really retarded.

(Damo's response: I just posted the poll without commentary! I'm just the messenger!!)
 
ib1yysguy said:
This is about the worst poll ever done.

These are the pollsters that claimed McCain was going to take the youth vote by huge margins. They're also the people who said if Stephen Hawking lived in England he'd have been put to death by the national health service (despite the fact that Hawking has lived in England his entire life).

This is the dumbest poll ever, and Damo's about the dumbest person ever for buying it. I'm sure 45 percent of doctors after 12-16 years of medical school would just up and quit their jobs if the person paying them changed.

Damo, you are really really retarded.

(Damo's response: I just posted the poll without commentary! I'm just the messenger!!)
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lol
 
listen watermark may be a loser but do you know how hard it is to post regularly on one name and make 3k posts on another side by side day in day out?

watermark isn't dnc
 
Taichiliberal said:
I'm a commuter from the suburbs....been doing so for over 20 years. Manhattan is cool if you've got the cash to live in the better areas....like my ex-boss living in the Dakota apartments with a Central Park view.
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The Dakota !! He must have been the boss when you were working for that ritzy yachting magazine. :)
 
Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
I'm a commuter from the suburbs....been doing so for over 20 years. Manhattan is cool if you've got the cash to live in the better areas....like my ex-boss living in the Dakota apartments with a Central Park view.
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christiefan915 said:
The Dakota !! He must have been the boss when you were working for that ritzy yachting magazine. :)
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Nope, this guy was an investment banker when I was working for him....now he's a hedge fund exec.......$$$$KA-CHING!$$$$
 
Damocles said:
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul

By TERRY JONES
News Analysis by IBD * Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:30 PM PT

Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.

The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.

It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost.

The IBD/TIPP Poll was conducted by mail the past two weeks, with 1,376 practicing physicians chosen randomly throughout the country taking part. Responses are still coming in, and doctors' positions on related topics — including the impact of an overhaul on senior care, medical school applications and drug development — will be covered later in this series.

Major findings included:

• Two-thirds, or 65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan. This contradicts the administration's claims that doctors are part of an "unprecedented coalition" supporting a medical overhaul.

It also differs with findings of a poll released Monday by National Public Radio that suggests a "majority of physicians want public and private insurance options," and clashes with media reports such as Tuesday's front-page story in the Los Angeles Times with the headline "Doctors Go For Obama's Reform."

Nowhere in the Times story does it say doctors as a whole back the overhaul. It says only that the AMA — the "association representing the nation's physicians" and what "many still regard as the country's premier lobbying force" — is "lobbying and advertising to win public support for President Obama's sweeping plan."

The AMA, in fact, represents approximately 18% of physicians and has been hit with a number of defections by members opposed to the AMA's support of Democrats' proposed health care overhaul.

• Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they "would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement" if Congress passes the plan the Democratic majority and White House have in mind.

More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says. Projecting the poll's finding onto that population, 360,000 doctors would consider quitting.

More at link...

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337909690110379
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I don't want to say I don't trust Investor's Business Daily, but I don't trust Investor's Business Daily. I particularly don't believe that doctors will leave their practices and that suggesting it is purely a RW scare tactic, not at all shocking considering the source and how they earn their money. Do they spell out any details beyond "randomly" how their "list" of MDs was derived? They aren't very well known for anything other than far right positions, so I suspect the "results" of the poll were a given before publication. There is no way on earth IBD would ever publish a pro healthcare reform piece if a poll revealed the opposite result.
Incidentally, if remotely true, Hippocrates must be turning in his grave since apparently IBD understands no other motive but money. They sure as Hell didn't poll the Mayo doctors I have questioned.
 
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