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   From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2013-10-08, conklin  wrote:   
      
   > "Ubiquitous"  wrote in message   
   > news:l2s13m$q1b$2@dont-email.me...   
   >> By David Hogberg   
      
   >> The president should have delayed opening Obamacare exchanges at least a   
   >> year.   
      
   >> If President Obama were really clever, he'd jump at the Republicans'   
   >> proposal in the continuing resolution to delay Obamacare for one year. A   
   >> one-year delay is the perhaps the only chance to prevent the Obamacare   
   >> exchanges from becoming a disaster.   
      
      
      
   > You only want universal health care coverage (or as close as we can get to   
   > it)   
   > to fail.  There is no "death spiral."  There are a limited number of very   
   > sick people who require more care.  With a national pool of all ages, they   
   > would be handled efficiently.  You want health insurance to be like auto   
   > insurance:  if you get sick, it gets canceled.  You are the sick one posting   
   > here.   
      
   Adequate medical care to all people is impossible; the reseources   
   do not exist.  Also, doctors in the same specialty are not equal;   
   a provision of Obamacare would give them the same payment.  And if   
   it is not done as salary but on a per-patient basis, it is even   
   worse; the good doctors see the patient fewer times for the same   
   results.  I have "fired" many doctors.   
      
   Differences between people are great, and medicine is going to become   
   more complex as means are found to identify these individual differences   
   and treat patients accordingly.  The current statistical methods   
   relied on as religion by the medical professions, always bad, will   
   become impossible to apply.  Doctors will have to THINK, not just   
   apply the treatments they have been taught.  But government procedures   
   do not at this time allow for thinking.   
      
      
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   This address is for information only.  I do not claim that these views   
   are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.   
   Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University   
   hrubin@stat.purdue.edu         Phone: (765)494-6054   FAX: (765)494-0558   
      
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