The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.
We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.
The new triad of medicine: a doctor, a patient and an accountant.
The healthcare reform bill now includes a tanning booth tax of 10 percent. You know what this means? This whole thing could be funded by the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.
Giving good medical care to people who need it is not a good way to make a profit. Insurance companies make their money by creaming the market.
They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
If an individual sticks up a bank and walks off with $25,000, there are consequences. If someone who really could have had an insurance policy consumes $25,000 worth of health care, everyone else pays for that.
Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.
