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Ken,

I am glad that they booed Mr. Obama.  The question now is how to turn those "boos" into something that is felt - and felt with pain - as opposed to just being heard with annoyance.

That brings us right back to that political action thing, eh?

How many on this list have peppered their elected officials with e-mails and letters?  How many are members of the ACS and AMA PAC's?  My guess is the majority.  Now, how many of our colleagues at large are?  Wanna bet that number is less than 30%.  My Father is gonna roll over in his grave as he hears me say this, but we need to adopt the "union mentality" as we forge ahead in strength, with a common voice and a common purpose - QUALITY universal health care in an American capitalistic way that has been thought out carefully, and not just pushed through 'cause it looks good on the record.  And unfortunately that is going to mean not cutting but slashing the huge profits reaped by the "legal" system (which, in my mind is anything but legal, and in fact is unethical), the medical industry (hospitals that are for profit, hospital administrators that still look like what Wall Street and Detroit execs used to look like), the pharmaceutical companies bent on recovering ALL of their R&D for a drug within one half life of the medication, and all the other smoke and mirrors that Ken and Norm were talking about.

Ken is right - this could be done fast.  Perhaps not by noon today, but for sure by the evening news tomorrow.  And WOW what a story THAT would make!!!

Ron

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Dr. Krin:   I was in the room when the AMA house of DelegAtes Boo ed Mr. Obama when he stated that there would be NO caps on non economic damages in Med Mal law suits.   

K

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There is one point where Louisiana does lead the nation in a good way. I've 
 previously mentioned the Patient Compensation Fund and the tort reform  
that accompanied the formation of the fund. I was quite disappointed  that Mr. 
Obama's plan did NOT include a reasonable form of tort reform. 

Yes, we need to police ourselves better, BUT there needs to be some  
mechanism to protect otherwise good doctors from 'acts of God' and  the Murphy 
factors of our patients. How many of us know of an OB  doc who manages a 
complicated delivery in an emergency coverage situation, doing  everything humanly 
possible to save both the mom and the baby, only to be sued  for problems 
which were present *before* the OB doc laid hands on the mom?

With the pervasive 'victim' and 'lottery winner' mentalities here in  the 
US in regards to medical and other malpractice, it's not surprising that  
percentage lawyers abound, and have contributed heavily to both sides of the  
political system.

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO 

In a message dated 7/25/2009 08:25:58 Central Standard Time,  
nmcswai at tulane.edu writes:

I can  say that from experience. I come from the only state in the Union 
with  universal health care. In fact, we have had such a system since the 
1930's.  Gov. Huey P. Long created a medical care system  that "no citizen is 
more  than a day's horse back ride away from a hospital'. Every Louisiana 
citizen is  guaranteed health care Our system cost almost more per capita than 
any state  in the union and our health care is very close to the bottom. I b
elieve we are  4th from the top in cost and 4th from the bottom in  outcome.

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