Reply #39: We already are slow and don't have enough specialists. [View All]

And many specialists are complaining already that they don't make enough (most doctors's wages have been fairly stagnant for years, according to Medical Economics magazine's annual polls). We have that with the system we have now, so how would it be different under single payer?

My son needed to get an upper endoscopy today (second time of puking blood, long-term acid reflux). I was told to take him to the ER so he could get scoped. They couldn't fit him in today--the specialist who commutes from two hours away one half day a week wasn't in today and couldn't do it tomorrow, either. Now they're trying to fit him in before August when the new doctor comes (who will still only be doing procedures one-half day a week). This is with good insurance at a good children's hospital serving a huge area in Michigan.

Montel needs to get off Pharma's soma machine and wake the hell up.