Originally Posted by ijusluvit

Who would have ever thought Mr. Morse would champion the elimination of private enterprise in medical care?!!

Affectionately called "Marcus Welby" care, the Sun says "physicians will be paid generous salaries that are not tied to the volume of patients seen in a day or the number of tests and procedures ordered."

And WHO, you ask, will pay those salaries, and along with it, control those physicians, collect those reimbursements, and make big decisions about medical care?
The answer: the man behind the curtain.
Or as the sign says: 'The Villages Health Care Center'.

Don't get me wrong, I'm actually in favor of the Mayo teaming model, with electronic record keeping, (the kinds of things strongly promoted in Obama Care, incidentally). The elimination of repetitive and unnecessary testing and treatment is an essential ingredient in eventually getting control of astronomical health care costs. I am willing to give up my 'right' to have every test known to man in exchange for focused, personal care. I have no problem with Mr. Morse reinventing Marcus Welby.

But if, (excuse me, when), Mr. Morse makes it happen, there are going to be some angry folks when they find out they can't personally elect to have comprehensive testing to "rule out every possibility" of anything bad happening, unless they leave town and see a PRIVATE physician. The purist conservatives will holler about that and about how doctors will no longer be motivated to practice under socialism.

Who would have ever thought the target of conservative criticism for helping to destroy the "finest health care system in the world" would be our own Mr. Morse!