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1. 2 July 2009 at 1:15 p.m.

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   Tom_Garrett (Tom Garrett) says…

   NBC News and other major news agencies are currently citing a medical study whose results are so deceitful that they border on fraud.

   The report would have you believe that your private doctor often and callously fails to report the results of medical tests to his patients.

   That statement is false!

   No such study has been done, and there is no reason to believe that such a study is needed.

   What has been done is a study of 23 HMO-style clinics. It showed that in 1 out of 14 cases no record existed that patients were notified of tests which were done. If you have ever been to such a clinic and seen what kind of medical mills they are, and seen the overworked doctors who labor day in and day out in such places, you would be no more surprised at those results than I am. When you are that busy you are going to make errors of ommission.

   Notice, however, that the study fails to mention the fact that although the fact that the reporting of test results to patients was sometimes not recorded, it is obvious because of follow-up visits that those reports must have been made. Else why the follow-up visits? A failure to keep records up is not the same as a failure to notify patients.

   Nothing in the cited news media reports make any claim that any patient was harmed in any way as a result. Since it would have been easy enough to determine whether or not this was so, it may safely be assumed that no harm occurred.

   Why are such red herring results being touted at this point in time?

   I can only imagine that it is part of the attack by the Obama administration on our private health care system and the fine doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who are part of it.

   That attack is being done under the name of reform, but the part of our medical system which needs “reform” is not private health care; it is the complex, convoluted, unresponsive, and often inadequate, portion of our health care system which is handled by the government.

   If President Obama wants to reform something, let him start with a Medicare system which—by law—is not allowed to negotiate the price of drugs. Let him reform a system in which 85% of all Medicare fraud occurs in one Florida county which is in dire need of more inspectors but cannot hire them even though each dollar spent on their salaries returns twenty-two dollars in reduced fraud. Let him revoke laws which require emergency rooms to treat people who simply do not wish to pay for an office visit to a doctor. Let him put reasonable oversight into Social Security disability claims. Let him change the law which grants American citizenship to the child of a female criminal who sneaks across the border to give birth.

   Leave our hard working, honest, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals alone! They are not fair game in your attempt to force socialized medicine on Americans who do not want it!

2. 2 July 2009 at 2:49 p.m.

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   fred_franz (frederick franz) says…

   Congress has been avoiding it's duty for decades. The stimulus for reform needed is now perhaps in the hands of Obama if he can influence Congress to take action. However, He seems to be touting a replacement system of health care rather than fixing what's wrong with the current system. Fix the fraud; fix the law permitting illegals to have “anchor” babies as U.S. citizens; fix the laws requiring private hospitals to treat illegals. Only Congress has the ability to fix what's wrong in America. Happy 4th.