>However, this MD is making it at least part of it by prescribing tests that of questionable necessity at the least or actually cheating Medicare.
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>And from the tone of many of your posts, I infer that you think that most physicians fall into this category. Is there anything that you don't have such a negative opinion about?

If you mean most physicians who practice in the relatively affluent areas of the US, you infer correctly.
As I said, you wont find many MD's in the free clinics in ghettos or the people treating Ebola shilling for patients on TV or driving the S class. However, I don't come in contact with them, so I don't comment on them.

>>Is there anything that you don't have such a negative opinion about?
Sure, but neither of us has enough time for me to tell you about all of them and that wasn't the subject of this thread.
I will say this about health care workers though : I have said before here that the aides who cared for my wife at the end of her life are the closest thing I've seen to angels in my life time. Most of them are minority single mothers who work two jobs and without exception each of them treated my wife as if she were their own mother. I can say the same thing about the hospice workers who came in at the end.

I was responding to posts that cited MD's as a valid source of opinions about the ACA.
I don't think the MD's I've met are objective about anything that affects their pocketbooks (nor, in fact, are most of us), so I questioned the value of the poll and cited my anecdotal experience with MD's as my reason for questioning that poll.

















Sure, there are lots of