Was it this "70%"


"It’s hard to know what to make of these findings. According to Deloitte’s supporting materials, of the 16,537 physicians the firm contacted, 501 completed the survey. That’s a response rate of barely 3 percent. It’s not clear whom this tiny sample really represents. "

More confirmation bias Kevin.Don't base your opinions on the first thing you read in the moining when you open your copy of "I hate the US government and Obama is a Soviet mole"

>>As I see it, the system will succeed if it validates its basic premise that by getting the bulk of the 41 million uninsured into some kind of plan costs to the rest of the already insured population - who are now paying for a lot of the costs of caring for the uninsured - will drop substantially and health care in general will have been improved.
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>There are plenty of "if" statements in there. And right now, none of them are being validated. And a substantial amount of non-partisan economists (and an estimated 70% of licensed U.S. physicians) who also beg to differ.
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>>It worked in Mass, but history will tell us how it pans out on a national scale.
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>That is not correct. See my post from about 2 months ago to Tamar. There are significant differences between the two, from the accounting model to the manner in which the mandate was handled.
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>>That said, selecting this woman as an example of the failure of the system is a bit of a stretch, I think.
>>She's disappointed, yes, but no worse off than she was before.
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>And Obama selecting this woman as an example of the success WASN'T a stretch?????
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>Unless her status changes for the better, at present I would say she's worse off in the sense that she was jerked around by a broken system.
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>Obama and his supporters advocate larger government...well, just like leadership is a verb and not a noun, "governing" is a verb.
>And I submit that this woman experienced what an increasing number are experiencing - that "government" is an incompetent middle-finger to the working middle class.
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>I'm going to start calling this "VaporCare", especially given the news last night that the accounting payment piece has yet to be completed. Loved Chao's reply yesterday when asked how this yet to be built module will be tested...."In the same exact manner we tested everything else". Priceless.