Choker, I love your stereotyping of college professors as liberals. I have a best friend who has been an adjunct for years and is a Republican. He hasn't voted for a Democrat in a long time. I am sure he isn't the only Republican adjunct on this earth.
By the way, his hours were cut before the results of the election were known.
Well, there is a two word solution and it is called, "Single Payer". Interestingly, the American College of Emergency Physicians agrees with me and they aren't exactly a leftist organization. According to the Open Secrets website:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2 ... =C00140061
2012 PAC Contribution Data
Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates (list recipients)
(39% to Democrats, 61% to Republicans) $947,500
Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more ( list donors)
Back on topic - Here is the link to the American College of Emergency Physicians' article:
http://pnhp.org/blog/2012/11/02/dr-mitc ... all-of-us/
It addresses all the myths that constantly pop up that we are all familiar with.
Also, I was struck by this exert since medicare keeps getting attacked:
""Looking again to Medicare as a single-payer model, consider how we emergency physicians interact with Medicare vs. private insurers. In 29 years of practice, I have never had to seek permission from a CMS official to admit a fee-for-service Medicare patient, have never had a consultant refuse a referral for a Medicare beneficiary, and have never had a pharmacist call me to say the prescription for my Medicare patient was not covered by the formulary. This is not true for some of my patients in managed care plans, including those who were sick enough to be admitted but had to be transferred because my hospital (which the patients self-selected) did not participate in their plan.""
Ironic since the evil government allegedly prevents choice.
49er
