Smile! You’ve Got Socialized Healthcare!
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Do as we say... not as we do.
Some Reid staffers exempt from Obamacare exchanges - CNN.com
But Obamacare is so awesome!
Former Reid staffer Jim Manley defended his old boss, arguing that "the only people hypocritical here are Republicans, who made this an issue in the first place."
Good response Jimmy... well thought out. Sorry the Republicans called your old boss out on it and made it an issue.
Some Reid staffers exempt from Obamacare exchanges - CNN.com
But Obamacare is so awesome!
Former Reid staffer Jim Manley defended his old boss, arguing that "the only people hypocritical here are Republicans, who made this an issue in the first place."
Good response Jimmy... well thought out. Sorry the Republicans called your old boss out on it and made it an issue.
Crying time for the delusional right wingers:
Now even MORE lives will be saved thanks to socialized medicine.
Don't like it? Tsk tsk.
Now even MORE lives will be saved thanks to socialized medicine.
Don't like it? Tsk tsk.
Obamacare Enrollment Up Sharply After HealthCare.gov Fix
Obamacare Enrollment Up Sharply After HealthCare.gov Fix
Enrollment on HealthCare.gov in the first two days of December, after the Obama administration declared the website fixed, eclipsed enrollment in the entire month of October.
About 29,000 people signed up for health coverage on Sunday and Monday through the site, according to a source familiar with the numbers. October enrollment on HealthCare.gov totaled less than 27,000. State-specific data is not yet available, and the figures are preliminary.
The new enrollment data were first reported by Politico.
HealthCare.gov has reported traffic hovering around one million visitors per day this week.
The numbers suggest rapid improvement in the site's performance, but the administration is still likely trailing its earlier enrollment targets. The White House had aimed for 500,000 sign-ups in October (the actual total was 100,000 when state-based marketplaces were included) and 3.3 million by Dec. 31.
The administration's confidence that the site is fixed has ignited a widespread outreach campaign over the next three weeks to enroll people in coverage.
Enrollment data for November are expected to be released by the middle of December.
More and more Americans signing up for socialized medicine!!!
Obamacare Enrollment Up Sharply After HealthCare.gov Fix
Enrollment on HealthCare.gov in the first two days of December, after the Obama administration declared the website fixed, eclipsed enrollment in the entire month of October.
About 29,000 people signed up for health coverage on Sunday and Monday through the site, according to a source familiar with the numbers. October enrollment on HealthCare.gov totaled less than 27,000. State-specific data is not yet available, and the figures are preliminary.
The new enrollment data were first reported by Politico.
HealthCare.gov has reported traffic hovering around one million visitors per day this week.
The numbers suggest rapid improvement in the site's performance, but the administration is still likely trailing its earlier enrollment targets. The White House had aimed for 500,000 sign-ups in October (the actual total was 100,000 when state-based marketplaces were included) and 3.3 million by Dec. 31.
The administration's confidence that the site is fixed has ignited a widespread outreach campaign over the next three weeks to enroll people in coverage.
Enrollment data for November are expected to be released by the middle of December.
More and more Americans signing up for socialized medicine!!!
Crying time for the delusional right wingers:
Now even MORE lives will be saved thanks to socialized medicine.
Don't like it? Tsk tsk.
Obama adviser David Plouffe says Obamacare should work by 2017...after Obama leaves office. Does that inspire confidence?
The choice to live rather than die thanks to Reaganomics and Republicannibalism:
Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage | Physicians for a National Health Program
I'll type it slowly so that everyone can understand, "Where's the choice when the gubmint chooses for you?"
Canada has more doctors, making more money than ever
Canada has more doctors, making more money than ever - The Globe and Mail
The number of doctors in Canada and the amount they get paid by government health plans hit record highs in each of the past several years – and 2012 was no different.
Canada had more than 75,000 doctors working last year, an increase of 4 per cent over 2011, and governments paid them $22-billion for their services, about 9 per cent more than the previous year, according to new data released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
The data are noteworthy because they suggest the country is taking baby steps to correct what is perceived to be a shortage of physicians, and reflect a marked shift in how doctors are being paid and, thus, interacting with patients.
Where the doctors are going
The number of doctors per capita climbed in 2012 for the sixth year in a row, outpacing population growth threefold and resulting in 214 physicians for every 100,000 Canadians. That figure is expected to rise as the country continues to attract foreign-trained doctors and Canadian medical schools churn out record numbers of graduates.
Growth in the number of doctors has been highest in rural areas, where complaints about shortages and access to care have historically been most pronounced. In the past five years, the number of physicians working in rural Canada rose five times faster than the national population.
Provincially, British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador reported the largest increases in the number of physicians, at 5.1 and 4.6 per cent, respectively. Manitoba was the only province that did not report an increase.
Geoff Ballinger, manager of health human resources at CIHI, said the overall numbers make it tempting to shrug off the notion of a doctor shortage in Canada. But that would be premature, he noted.
For one thing, the number of physicians in rural Canada in not proportional with the rural population: While 18 per cent of Canadians, or about six million people, live in rural communities, just 8.5 per cent of the country’s 75,142 doctors served those people.
That gap may be a reason that the number of Canadians who say they do not have a regular family doctor has stagnated at about 4.4 million in recent years, according to Statistics Canada.
“It’s tempting to suspect the situation is improving . . . but we’re not seeing a change in those numbers,” Mr. Ballinger said.
Shortage or no shortage?
For many of those 4.4 million people, not having a family doctor is a choice. They are content to seek care at walk-in clinics. But nearly 800,000 reported that they did not have a place to go for regular care.
The figures do not necessarily mean a shortage of physicians, said Tom Noseworthy, a health policy professor at the University of Calgary.
“I don’t believe Canada has a problem with the number of physicians,” he said. “I think we have a substantial problem with the types and, furthermore, the distribution of doctors.”
“We’ve got a situation now where there isn’t always a good alignment between the training programs [medical schools] and what the market actually needs,” he said. “I do not believe Canada suffers from an insufficient number of physicians.”
Changes in pay
Doctors earned more last year than ever before.
The data show the average physician was paid $328,000 for clinical services last year, from a high of $376,000 in Ontario to a low of $258,000 in Nova Scotia. (Most doctors must pay their overhead – including office space and staff wages – out of their income.)
Across the country, average income was 5-per-cent higher than in the previous year.
Increasingly, though, doctors are earning their pay in ways other than the traditional fee-for-service model, in which a doctor sees a patient and bills for his or her time and expertise.
So-called alternative-payment methods have skyrocketed in recent years, and last year accounted for 28.7 per cent of the $22-billion provincial and territorial governments paid out to doctors. A decade ago, alternative payments made up just 11 per cent of physician income.
“It’s a big, big shift, and I think for the better,” said Scott Wooder, president of the Ontario Medical Association, which negotiates physicians’ pay with the province.
These alternative payments include straight salaries, compensation in which physicians are paid a fixed sum per patient on their roster, and hourly or daily wages. Sometimes remuneration is a blend of fee-for-service and an alternative payment.
Ontario doctors have been embracing alternative payments in greater numbers since the 1990s. Almost $3.4-billion, or roughly 35 per cent, of all physician income in Ontario last year was alternative payments.
Most were in the form of what is called capitation – compensation based on the number of patients on their roster, regardless of how often a patient seeks medical attention.
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Canadian socialized medicine sure is working!
Canada has more doctors, making more money than ever - The Globe and Mail
The number of doctors in Canada and the amount they get paid by government health plans hit record highs in each of the past several years – and 2012 was no different.
Canada had more than 75,000 doctors working last year, an increase of 4 per cent over 2011, and governments paid them $22-billion for their services, about 9 per cent more than the previous year, according to new data released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
The data are noteworthy because they suggest the country is taking baby steps to correct what is perceived to be a shortage of physicians, and reflect a marked shift in how doctors are being paid and, thus, interacting with patients.
Where the doctors are going
The number of doctors per capita climbed in 2012 for the sixth year in a row, outpacing population growth threefold and resulting in 214 physicians for every 100,000 Canadians. That figure is expected to rise as the country continues to attract foreign-trained doctors and Canadian medical schools churn out record numbers of graduates.
Growth in the number of doctors has been highest in rural areas, where complaints about shortages and access to care have historically been most pronounced. In the past five years, the number of physicians working in rural Canada rose five times faster than the national population.
Provincially, British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador reported the largest increases in the number of physicians, at 5.1 and 4.6 per cent, respectively. Manitoba was the only province that did not report an increase.
Geoff Ballinger, manager of health human resources at CIHI, said the overall numbers make it tempting to shrug off the notion of a doctor shortage in Canada. But that would be premature, he noted.
For one thing, the number of physicians in rural Canada in not proportional with the rural population: While 18 per cent of Canadians, or about six million people, live in rural communities, just 8.5 per cent of the country’s 75,142 doctors served those people.
That gap may be a reason that the number of Canadians who say they do not have a regular family doctor has stagnated at about 4.4 million in recent years, according to Statistics Canada.
“It’s tempting to suspect the situation is improving . . . but we’re not seeing a change in those numbers,” Mr. Ballinger said.
Shortage or no shortage?
For many of those 4.4 million people, not having a family doctor is a choice. They are content to seek care at walk-in clinics. But nearly 800,000 reported that they did not have a place to go for regular care.
The figures do not necessarily mean a shortage of physicians, said Tom Noseworthy, a health policy professor at the University of Calgary.
“I don’t believe Canada has a problem with the number of physicians,” he said. “I think we have a substantial problem with the types and, furthermore, the distribution of doctors.”
“We’ve got a situation now where there isn’t always a good alignment between the training programs [medical schools] and what the market actually needs,” he said. “I do not believe Canada suffers from an insufficient number of physicians.”
Changes in pay
Doctors earned more last year than ever before.
The data show the average physician was paid $328,000 for clinical services last year, from a high of $376,000 in Ontario to a low of $258,000 in Nova Scotia. (Most doctors must pay their overhead – including office space and staff wages – out of their income.)
Across the country, average income was 5-per-cent higher than in the previous year.
Increasingly, though, doctors are earning their pay in ways other than the traditional fee-for-service model, in which a doctor sees a patient and bills for his or her time and expertise.
So-called alternative-payment methods have skyrocketed in recent years, and last year accounted for 28.7 per cent of the $22-billion provincial and territorial governments paid out to doctors. A decade ago, alternative payments made up just 11 per cent of physician income.
“It’s a big, big shift, and I think for the better,” said Scott Wooder, president of the Ontario Medical Association, which negotiates physicians’ pay with the province.
These alternative payments include straight salaries, compensation in which physicians are paid a fixed sum per patient on their roster, and hourly or daily wages. Sometimes remuneration is a blend of fee-for-service and an alternative payment.
Ontario doctors have been embracing alternative payments in greater numbers since the 1990s. Almost $3.4-billion, or roughly 35 per cent, of all physician income in Ontario last year was alternative payments.
Most were in the form of what is called capitation – compensation based on the number of patients on their roster, regardless of how often a patient seeks medical attention.
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Canadian socialized medicine sure is working!