Pic Of The Moment: You've Really Been Reduced To THIS?

[mwooldri]

59. Says Mike Kennedy, MD - a family doctor?

What planet does he come from? All the doctors I know around me generally welcome seeing people to access health care. One of my providers who dropped taking insurance from the company who administers my employers health plan went out of her way to ensure that I still had access to her and could afford that access.

I also bet what he's been hearing from places like the NIH about a million to a million and a half people die in hospitals each year is the gross number of deaths and does not go into details on the causes of death. I bet a large number of people who die in hospital were expected to have a high chance of death upon admittance and that treatment was worth trying anyway.

I think there's a saying - something like "a good surgeon knows how to operate. A great surgeon knows when not to operate".

And the guy chairing that task force - Jim Dunnigan - obviously had a revelation, if you watch the video. In Utah (and other non-expansion states) one can make too much money for Medicaid and too little for the exchanges. He apparently didn't know that, and he's also an insurance broker! And that wonderful term "donut hole".

What is it with these elected officials?