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e time, Republicans have ratcheted up their attacks on the legislation and begun approaching conservative Democrats to switch parties, in the wake of this

Administration officials want what they view as must-have pieces in the final bill to be hashed out in January by House and Senate negotiators. To help pay for expanded coverage, they favor the Senate's tax on high-cost plans over the tax on the wealthy the House approved . The White House is pushing for a strong independent panel to assess Medicare spending and recommend cuts to Congress, according to administration and congressional officials. That is in the Senate bill but not the H

Canadian doctors pay lower malpractice insurance fee

Was the intent an entitlement to healthcare services

US Congress in 1965 when "first-dollar coverage" was introduced with the inception of Medicare.

But the reality is
that all men and women are not created equal.

s cannot become professional dancers. They just have to find a
different type of dance -- jazz, tap, modern -- just as athletes have to find
sports that fit certain body types. A tall, blocky man, for

if this healthcare reform passes into a socialized universal healthcare like Obama wants he better socialize medical school, and offer every medical student, resident, fellow, and physician out there a complete repayment of all of their school loans (undergrad, grad, etc). The may help to make up for the huge decrease in money we will be making after the reform. He will have to be sure that some incentive still exist for intelligent able bodied men and women to want to work there ass off and surrender much of their young life for their future as physicians. Otherwise we will have an even greater physician shortage than what is currently projected and the quality of physicians will go down immensely.

he survey suggests that opinions have changed substantially since the last survey in 2002 and as the country debates serious changes to the health care system.

Of more than 2,000 doctors surveyed, 59 percent said they support legislation to establish a national health insurance program, while 32 percent said they opposed it, researchers reported in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

A rural doctor shortage that has reached a crisis stage in parts of the country is still workable in Winnie, but the demand for doctors will always outrank the number of physicians willing to work in small towns.

More than 35 million Americans live in medically underserved areas, and more than 16,000 doctors are needed to fill the gap, according to the American Medical Association. As the population ages, almost 24,000 doctors will be needed in a decade.

heard on Rush, while coming home from the doctor, that a survey would be released today saying that 1/2 of all doctors want Universal Health Care. This sounde

done in 2002 in Indiana.