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Tom Price to be nom. as HHS Sec...time to put Obamacare out of its misery. -- ryno hoo 11/29/2016 07:18AM I still think the appointments are just red meat to the base, and that -- southdenverhoo 11/29/2016 3:55PM I suppose we'll see how and if that happens. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 11/29/2016 09:23AM Que the music...."Safelite Repeal...Safelite Replace" ** -- Tuckahokie 11/29/2016 08:50AM There will be no replace ** -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 08:52AM An anti-science Creationist meathead. Your kind of guy.** -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 08:20AM Can you enlighten with your research -- fishhoo 11/29/2016 10:16AM Orthopedic Surgeons are notoriously anti-science ** -- Tuckahokie 11/29/2016 08:51AM I was a bit surprised when I found out some MD's don't believe in evolution -- JohnHoo2 11/29/2016 09:09AM Evangelicals first; MDs second** -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 09:11AM This one has become so. Do some research ** -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 08:53AM Good riddance! -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 07:27AM As an MD, what type of health care/health insurance do you favor? -- JohnHoo2 11/29/2016 08:00AM There needs to be more of a partnership between the insurer and insured -- Faz d. Hoo 11/29/2016 1:15PM More focus on preventative care, decrease end-of-life spending -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 08:46AM Ms. Palin sez, "Death panels!" ** -- Shenhoo 11/29/2016 09:37AM I have to tell you, having gone through it I don't think.. -- hoolstoptheheels 11/29/2016 09:21AM It's about managing expectations -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 09:33AM But who going to make the judgement whether a life is worth saving? -- JohnHoo2 11/29/2016 09:58AM Informed decision making -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 10:13AM Right, but who pays? If as a physician, you educate the patient -- BocaHoo91 11/29/2016 10:27AM You'll never get around that issue -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 10:51AM Yeah, but medicare is not remotely affordable over the long run, -- BocaHoo91 11/29/2016 11:24AM Would be nice to start educating physicians better on the cost of care -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 11:42AM Seems ludicrous that the Doctor making decisions on tests -- JSHoo 11/29/2016 12:12PM It's a spiderweb of costs -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 12:42PM That was a key component of ACA discussions, having doctors engage with -- NJHoo 11/29/2016 10:27AM Now that they're in charge, the temptation to demagogue the issue will be -- southdenverhoo 11/29/2016 10:43AM I hope that the opposition will do the right thing ** -- NJHoo 11/29/2016 11:57AM Yes, big mistake ** -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 10:40AM That's the problem with our 2 parties system right now. No matter how -- JohnHoo2 11/29/2016 10:30AM I don't think so, because Democrats differ from Republicans in that they -- southdenverhoo 11/29/2016 10:46AM Cries of "death panels" will need to be ignored -- BocaHoo91 11/29/2016 10:06AM Ha! You know how that story ended when the issue was part of ACA ! ** -- NJHoo 11/29/2016 10:30AM Preventative care is easy? -- hokie in cville 11/29/2016 09:14AM Especially when you hear that even something as simple -- Faz d. Hoo 11/29/2016 1:20PM First thing the Negotiator-in-Chief should do is lift the ban on GovCo -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 08:57AM Agree on the latter but the former requires regualr access -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:56AM Not necessarily. Two ideas: A more reasonably-priced provider paradigm.. -- EAPo 11/29/2016 11:07AM So the your first idea still requires access to a health care -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 11:55AM First idea goes primarily to cost containment. Somewhat akin to an HMO... -- EAPo 11/29/2016 12:29PM Oh it is a very good idea towards addressing -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 1:00PM Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the medical professionals being -- JohnHoo2 11/29/2016 08:55AM There are lots of moral implications that make it really hard to reduc... -- Hoojack 11/29/2016 09:32AM Yes, physicians are a big part of the problem -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 09:30AM My hope of that happening (folks becoming "healthier") approaches 0% -- Stimp 11/29/2016 09:40AM I'm with you -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 10:20AM Since I'm on the ancedote train... -- Stimp 11/29/2016 11:11AM I used to really resist this as a paternalistic intrusion into the choices -- southdenverhoo 11/29/2016 3:36PM You also get stuck with who makes the decision to forgo unnecessary tr... -- Hoojack 11/29/2016 09:36AM See my informed decision making post above ** -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 10:16AM I get where you're coming from. -- Hoojack 11/29/2016 10:21AM *** -- WaxHoo 11/29/2016 08:55AM It only controls the price via subsidy, not the cost. -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 08:15AM No one....absolutely no one is proposing to control the cost. -- Shenhoo 11/29/2016 08:17AM There are several proposals out there to use market -- AlexHoo 11/29/2016 08:42AM And none of them address the problems the ACA addressed -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:55AM The solution could be to have a 'gap'-- High deductible catastrophic.. -- EAPo 11/29/2016 11:33AM Tax Credits to fund a HSA that then can be used to pay -- AlexHoo 11/29/2016 09:32AM No it does not. Unless you are proposing to give people enough -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 09:46AM Should be a stipend given to all, who then buy basic insurance with that. -- hoodeyo 11/29/2016 3:23PM That might work, but how is that different from what -- 111Balz 11/30/2016 08:09AM Because insurance companies have no incentive to control costs -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 08:19AM No, its because health care providers have no incentive to control -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:36AM And emergency room visits are up -- AlexHoo 11/29/2016 09:43AM You "heard" what people wanted you to hear apparently -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 10:18AM A complete and utter lie by Obama and Pelosi -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 07:52AM "If it wasn't for subsidies people would have had the pitchfork -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:06AM Yep, that's what 20 million Americans will be faced with if the ACA goes -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 07:29AM ACA was going to collapse under it's own weight regardless of who was prez. -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 07:43AM You would think a career bank teller would be able to do the numbers. ** -- Mr Wahoo 11/29/2016 08:18AM The law could have been fixed long before now but your -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:04AM The Pelosi Principle? (link) -- Exhoolate 11/29/2016 08:20AM "My Congress?" -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 08:12AM You really do not udnerstand what the ACA does or the -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:39AM Health care, the way America wants it, is not deliverable -- dajoka004 11/29/2016 07:55AM Community health clinics ought to handle the bulk of care -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 08:18AM Agree with all of that but people still need insurance ** -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 1:56PM Very true, but what type of insurance is the debate -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 3:10PM I can't wait until 20 million people are without health insurance -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 07:24AM More fear mongering from the left. Yawn .... ** -- PalmyraHoo 11/29/2016 07:48AM Really? Without the ACA how will those people get -- 111Balz 11/29/2016 08:40AM I think Palmyra means he won't lose his insurance; screw the rest ... yawn ** -- Quaker 11/29/2016 09:26AM He has no legitimate argument. Only spoon fed talking points & ideology ** -- Mr Wahoo 11/29/2016 08:17AM