Comments on: Happiest on Weekends, Live to 100, and Child Waits 7 Months for a Doctor’s Appointment http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Wed, 23 May 2012 15:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51991 Linda Gorman Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:22:20 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51991 Wyoming had 147 cases of pediatric cancer from 1999-2005. Would you want your child treated by a pediatric oncologist who sees 25 cases a year and is forced to serve in an ObamaCare defined "medically underserved area" or would you prefer to vote with your feet and take your child to a center of excellence in another state? In a country as thinly populated as the United States, there will be areas that don't have sufficient population to support certain specialties. Oh, and the federal government already says that big chunks of the city of Denver are medical shortage areas. Wyoming had 147 cases of pediatric cancer from 1999-2005. Would you want your child treated by a pediatric oncologist who sees 25 cases a year and is forced to serve in an ObamaCare defined “medically underserved area” or would you prefer to vote with your feet and take your child to a center of excellence in another state?

In a country as thinly populated as the United States, there will be areas that don’t have sufficient population to support certain specialties.

Oh, and the federal government already says that big chunks of the city of Denver are medical shortage areas.

]]> By: Bart Ingles http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51979 Bart Ingles Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:29:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51979 That's what the physicians are doing. That’s what the physicians are doing.

]]> By: artk http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51974 artk Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:09:09 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51974 If the free market causes physician shortages in certain areas, well then either forget about getting treatment, or in the words of Ronald Regan “vote with your feet”. If the free market causes physician shortages in certain areas, well then either forget about getting treatment, or in the words of Ronald Regan “vote with your feet”.

]]> By: Bart Ingles http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51967 Bart Ingles Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:38:22 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51967 Pretty soon they'll have shortages of general practitioners as well. Pretty soon they’ll have shortages of general practitioners as well.

]]> By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51965 Linda Gorman Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:31:31 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51965 To use the shortages of pediatric specialists in Wyoming to sell ObamaCare is bizarre, to say the least. Wyoming has a population of roughly 540,000 people. Its biggest cities, Cheyenne and Casper, each have about 55,000 people in them. Cheyenne is less than 50 miles from Ft. Collins Colorado (pop 137,000) and about 100 miles from Denver, Colorado. Guess where the pediatric specialists are going to be? To use the shortages of pediatric specialists in Wyoming to sell ObamaCare is bizarre, to say the least.

Wyoming has a population of roughly 540,000 people. Its biggest cities, Cheyenne and Casper, each have about 55,000 people in them. Cheyenne is less than 50 miles from Ft. Collins Colorado (pop 137,000) and about 100 miles from Denver, Colorado.

Guess where the pediatric specialists are going to be?

]]> By: Catherine http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51956 Catherine Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:04:21 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51956 I would be shocked if Congress actually increased payments for specialists in the pediatric field. If waiting times are grueling now for parents of sick children, I expect they will only get longer if these new bills pass. I would be shocked if Congress actually increased payments for specialists in the pediatric field. If waiting times are grueling now for parents of sick children, I expect they will only get longer if these new bills pass.

]]> By: Tom H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51955 Tom H. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:56:07 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51955 If what the Lancet says is true that is going to be a disaster for Social Security and Medicare. If what the Lancet says is true that is going to be a disaster for Social Security and Medicare.

]]> By: Joe S. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51954 Joe S. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:45:56 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51954 Doctor shortages are going to become routine under obamaCare. Doctor shortages are going to become routine under obamaCare.

]]> By: Vicki http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51952 Vicki Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:22:36 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51952 I agree with you on the weekend study. But you are probably wrong. They probably spent a lot of money on it. I agree with you on the weekend study. But you are probably wrong. They probably spent a lot of money on it.

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/happiest-on-weekends-live-to-100-and-child-waits-7-months-for-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-appointment/comment-page-1/#comment-51949 Devon Herrick Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:37:01 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8323#comment-51949 If you ask me the most intriguing question in the "You're happiest on weekends" study (that remains unanswered) is how the researcher was able to apply for a research grant with a straight face? If you ask me the most intriguing question in the “You’re happiest on weekends” study (that remains unanswered) is how the researcher was able to apply for a research grant with a straight face?

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