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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

The point is that there ARE plenty of issues with the current system that need corrected, and there are ways to correct them both via modification of our current sys and via conversion to a new methodology. Everyone is too concerned with bombast to be proactive. There's no reason the gov shouldn't look at all of these issues and work on creating a system from the ground up whereby most of them are eliminated (socialist or not, that's right I went there ). But too many people are getting paid with the status quo, so there's a lot of static out there. Why not revise/subsidize med school? Why not reduce/eliminate malpractice litigation? These things have already been proposed ad nauseam but the truth is that this is a HUGE industry with HUGE lobbying power and they are going to fight any/all reform every step of the way.

I agree with you, the current system has issues and needs to be reformed....not scrapped and rebuilt in dramatic haste by a Dem supermajority that currently weilds ALL the political clout. This current legislation that's being crammed down our throats hasn't been thoroughly evaluated and I'll bet money over half the people voting on this thing haven't even read 10% of it. And if it's passed in its current form, the things I mentioned that will happen, or I'll send you a dollar (I'm not a high roller like saden).

P.S. no problem with a program for gov't grants/loans for med school. Reducing malpractice litigation would be a HUGE plus for docs and the medical industry. It's the left and the trail lawyers that are lobbying against that.