Reply #30: I think you are replying to someone else. [View All]

I didn't say anything about proctologists.

The talking points you make don't apply much to anesthesiologists. Average income is well into the 200K's and overhead is among the lowest of all specialties, just a billing office unless you are running a pain practice, rare to have to buy your own anesthesia machines or gear or pharmaceuticals.

Since billing is usually a fixed percent of collections if farmed out, how are you making the argument that you, as an anesthesiologist, are going to be killed by the health care bill as passed?

And, if you are making the slippery slope argument that even though the bill doesn't mandate single payer or even a public option, but inevitably must lead to single payer, you will have to provide evidence or a more convincing argument than your opinion that this is the case.

Your examples of prostate cancer and breast cancer are typical cherrypicked GOP nonsense, particularly with respect to prostate cancer. We screen like crazy for that compared to other countries, it's actively debated whether we are screening more than we need given the typical indolent course of the disease, so we have a huge denominator of prostate cancer cases compared to countries that screen less, yet many of the screened will die of other diseases regardless of the treatment because of the indolent natural history of much prostate cancer, so it's to some degree expected for us to have "better" survival numbers due to larger denominator of screened positive and the nature of the illness.

How about uninsured people with diabetes? How are they faring in our system? People going bankrupt because they happened to get diagnosed with cancer between jobs or hit by a car in between jobs? You okay with all that? I ask because I assume you are a GOP voter based on your responses and positions and talking points (although I'm sure you will deny it). The GOP had plenty of chances to address all that while in power during Bush and earlier and basically went status quo, with some health care savings accounts which do nothing for the problems I enumerated. Because they did nothing while in power for a long time, they have forfeited any credibility on the issue other than being an instrument of the status quo.

Tort reform? Texas and California have the type of tort reform discussed, I'm not aware of any revolutionary decrease in medical costs in those states as a result.

This thread was about one guy and his douchebag sign, not a debate on the overall bill and everything which you are trying to turn it into. Even if you "wouldn't put that sign up yourself" as you said, if you are unable to see what an asshole that makes the guy, you have a gigantic blind spot as far as "humanity" goes.