JournoLister Joe Klein says Romneycare "is working" in Massachusetts. Tragic documentation states this isn't the case, but MSNBC accepted Klein's statement as fact. More than half Massachusetts doctors are not taking new patients, and emergency room visits continue to increase--the opposite of what was supposed to happen, but common sense.
5/25/11, "Joe Klein: NY-26 Was A "Victory For Socialism"," MSNBC, Real Clear Politics Video
""It was a victory for socialism," TIME's Joe Klein said of last night's election result in NY-26. A Democrat won a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House from a very conservative district in New York.
Klein says, "For the last two years, Republicans have been lambasting Barack Obama who is right in the middle of the political spectrum, a mild liberal, as being a wild-eyed socialist. Well, there ain't anything that he has proposed that is purely socialistic as our Medicare program; a single payer program run by the government. And the folks love it," Klein also said."
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Socialism exempts the Ruling Class from normal standards of conduct. That's why they like it. Look no further than the example of DSK. Reputable news accounts say the DSK attack would not have been reported in France because it's accepted the elite get special treatment. Anyone who questions them is ridiculed. (Quote from NY Times reporter Erlanger near end of this post)***ed.
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5/9/11, "Wait for doctors visit as long as 48 days in Massachusetts," Boston Globe, by Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
"A new poll of 838 Massachusetts doctors finds patients are still waiting weeks -- in some cases as long as a month and a half -- for non-urgent appointments with primary care physicians and certain specialists.
Surveyors for the Massachusetts Medical Society called doctors' offices in February and March and asked when they could come in for routine care. They requested a new patient appointment with internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians; an appointment for heartburn with gastroenterologists; a heart check-up with cardiologists; an appointment for knee pain with orthopedic surgeons; and a routine exam with obstetrician/gynecologists.
The average wait ranged from 24 days for an appointment with a pediatrician to 48 days to see an internist. The wait for an internist was actually down slightly, from 53 days in a similar 2010 survey, but the waits for family doctors, gastroenterologists, orthopedists, and ob/gyns increased.
The medical society, which represents physicians, broke down the results by county, but in some cases the sample is small.
Surveyors also asked doctors whether they are accepting new patients: It was most difficult to find a new adult primary care doctor -- more than half of those practices were full. This year's results were close to the findings in the society's 2010 survey."
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7/4/10, "Emergency room visits grow in Mass.," Boston Globe, Liz Kowalczyk
"The number of people visiting hospital emergency rooms has climbed in Massachusetts, despite the enactment of nearly universal health insurance that some hoped would reduce expensive emergency department use.
According to state data released last week, emergency room visits rose by 9 percent from 2004 to 2008, to about 3 million visits a year.
When the Legislature passed the insurance law in 2006, officials hoped it would increase access to primary care doctors for the uninsured."...---------------------------------------------
5/1/11, "Doc Holiday, Behind the coming physician shortage," NY Post, Michael Tanner
In Massachusetts, "Romney’s reforms increased the demand for health care but did nothing to expand the supply of physicians. In fact, by cracking down on insurance premiums, Massachusetts pushed insurers to reduce their payments to providers, making it less worthwhile for doctors to expand their practices. As a result, the average wait to get an appointment with a doctor
- grew from 33 days to over 55 days.
Promising universal health coverage is easy. But what does universal coverage mean
- if you can’t actually see a doctor?"
Wait to see doctors in Mass. 100 days or more-Boston Globe
9/22/2008, "Across Mass., wait to see doctors grows," Boston Globe, Liz Kowalczyk,
"Access to care, insurance law cited for delays"
"The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long as 100 days, while the number of practices accepting new patients has dipped in the past four years, with care the
- scarcest in some rural areas."...
Emergency room visits are up in Massachusetts--not down--a main selling point and disaster of RomneyCare and ObamaCare.
5/10/11, "RomneyCare proves failure," Boston Herald, Michael Graham
"Take the new survey of emergency room physicians finding more ER patients than last year — part of an ongoing trend here of higher emergency room use. In theory all these newly-covered patients would be sitting in their primary-care doctor’s office,
- getting less expensive treatment.
But Romneycare drastically expanded the number of patients on Medicaid and subsidized plans. “These patients go to emergency rooms more than any others, including people with private insurance and even no insurance,” Suderman said.
And even if they wanted to go to a doctor’s office — they can’t. The wait times are too long."...
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5/18/11, "Smoke and Fire: Why France Was Silent About Strauss-Kahn's Womanizing," Time.com, Bruce Crumley/Paris
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5/16/11, "As Case Unfolds, France Speculates and Steams," NY Times, Steven Erlanger
"Max Gallo, a prominent historian and commentator, agreed that the two systems are different. “It’s the first time in the history of France that a top-level figure is treated like a common criminal whose guilt is already established,” he said. “But it also manifests an egalitarianism in the American justice system that
- surprises us in France.” "...
***Mr. Erlanger, an author of the above NY Times article was a guest on John Batchelor's radio show Monday night. Among his remarks was approximately, "If this had happened in France, it wouldn't have been reported." Mr. Erlanger made clear the difference between an alleged violent attack and the sexual freedoms usually identified with French culture. So it was interesting he felt this still would not have been reported. That opinion is reflected in the quote from his article above that France is surprised at such 'egalitarianism,' ie, the upper class gets special treatment in France. ed.
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"Perfect example of the "caviar left."" Der Spiegel, 3/31/11
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