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Florida’s Largest Physician Group Sounds Alarm on Senate Health Care Bill
A stealth provision that would undermine state damage caps
Health Care Overhaul Proposals Comparisons
Letter to AMA President James Rohack, MD, AMA President-Elect Cecil Wilson, MD
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Share your opinion on Federal Health Care Reform and HR 3590 by using the form below. Statements will be posted within 24 hours.
Previous Comments:
The House and the Senate bills still leave 20 million americans uninsured. It places the medical decision making in the hands of bureaucrats and drives a stake in the heart of the doctor patient relationship. Sir William Osler would be proud of the FMA stance in fighting to preserve patients right to true medical care.
- Dr. Palete
The health care reform that should be enacted should conform with the principles as outlined by the FMA House of Delegates. Creating huge cumbersome bureaucracies has proven expensive in the past and has depersonalized the delivery of healthcare to our patients. Our patients want us to make decisions based on our commitment to THEM as individuals, not to a commitment to what is best for the population at large.
- Dr. Butler
I strongly favor health care reform. I would love a bipartisan approach. Ideas that are currently not being incorporated include:
Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
- Dr. Rubenstein
Why can't we learn from nations that have faced healthcare reforms in the last fifty years and get inspired by what has worked for them and reject what has not? Do we really have to reinvent the wheel?
I strongly recommend T.R. Reid's book "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Healthcare".
The author analyzes and compares about 10 healthcare systems around the world with their positive and negative aspects. Some countries with a system previously similar to ours have successfully undergone recent reforms with positive results.
- Dr. Homsy
Very much in favor of Health Care Bill in its present form.
- Dr. Benarroche
The Senate Bill will place bureaucrats in between patients and their doctors. Doctors will be placed on a budget through forced captitation and global budgets. They will be forced to ask hospitals to pay them. They will be penalized if they don't cut spending on patients and this will hurt patients.
America's patients deserve good reform that truly lowers costs and empowers patients without expanding government and corporate control, taxes and forcing debt onto our children.
- Dr. McKalip
I already know what you are against. What are you for that makes sense and deals with the uninsured and underserved? Otherwise you just join the gang that can only say NO!
- Dr. Yacht
Seems like you guys want to continue the current government subsidized low outcome high overhead private health insurance mess operating parallel to and within Medicare. More of the same from the FMA.
- Dr. Green
