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2008 Healthcare Professionals' Opinions
on Presidential Candidates' Health Plans

According to your candidate’s plan, which areas in the current system have the most opportunity for improvement?
Physicians' unedited comments listed below:

All Comments for this Question

1. [No Answer Entered] 

2. Improved insurance 

3. NO CANDIDATE SELECTED 

4. The above are all slogans and baloney. When people have to spend their own money then the marketplace will sort out the mess. 

5. [No Answer Entered] 

6. change the malpractice climate and alleviate "defensive" medicine; the attorneys are killing medicine, and society in general 

7. See # 14, none of the leading candidates have a viable plan 

8. I do not believe that the government should be involved in health care. 

9. test 

10. Reducing malpractice lawsuits. 

11. someone must bring some control over the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. 

12. Undecided on a candidate 

13. Again, why are the questions so biased, assuming that a national healthcare system will be BETTER???? Have you no shame? 

14. Need details 

15. More controls on insuracne companies practices such as preventing exclusions for certain diseases, removing preexisting clauses, and much much more. 

16. I don't see any candidate being honest about TOO MUCH CARE 

17. [No Answer Entered] 

18. The insurance companies and drug manager companies and all the other parasitic companies which siphon away the premium dollar need to be phased out. 

19. availability of electronic medical record to be transferred from office to office 

20. Need to regulate thrid party payor system 

21. it is not just access to care,it is a lifestyle 

22. not sure at this time 

23. Teaching people to care for themselves, and not use the ER as the place for routine exams 

24. reduction of insurance and pharmaceutical companies take of the medical dollar. 

25. more focus on prevention 

26. again, single payer/Kucinich 

27. less regulation 

28. I have no candidate chioice at this time 

29. i do not have a canidate 

30. Curtail frivolous law suits! TORT REFORM!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

31. Tort Reform at Federal Level 

32. Eliminate insurance companies altogether. Stop paying someone who neither provides, nor benefits from care. 

33. Your options are too specific to be evaluated based on the limited information candidates have proposed. 

34. prevention 

35. uncertain, but again, I will not support a candidate that is an attorney who wants to play around w/ healthcare. 

36. stop having management co.s and ins co.s control medicine 

37. No current candidate has a plan I like. 

38. Eliminate waste 

39. I don't think it's clear 

40. If the Government takes the system over, they'll probably hit on the providers to pay for EMR. (!) 

41. We don't need better care, we need better access to the wonderful care already available!!!!! 

42. see comments above 

43. Establish baseline for healthcare available with the non-essential medical modalities subject to the marketplace. 

44. I do not have a candidate 

45. systemization of care of chronic disease is the singular issue that provides great potential benifit for quality and cost issues. 

46. I do not support any of the three candidates

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