Organizing for America | Dr. Linda Burke Galloway: Single Payer Debate on Linked In

Single Payer Debate on Linked In

By Linda from Winter Springs, FL - May 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm EDT

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Tags: Europe, healthcare reform, illegal aliens, insurance, insurance companies, physicians, President Obama, Socialism

Dear Harvey,

We can agree to disagree. The government does not regulate the insurance companies; and that's why they get away with murder. Insurance companies fall under Sui Generis, which means "unto itself." Each state has a commissioner of insurance that monitors insurance companies. However, most citizens never take their complaints to that height of the food chain.

As for my practice and health-care of "illegal aliens"? I'm a public health physician who has taken care of indigent women throughout my entire medical career. And half of my patients are indeed, "illegal aliens." I'm not the border control. I'm a physician. And when a patient presents to me for prenatal care, I give it. Because that's the oath that I swore upon graduation.

My colleagues are crying behind closed doors because they can't pay their malpracice premiums. Their income has dropped by 40% because the insurance companies and hospitals made back door deals and no one wants to jeopardize losing their hospital privileges. Why do you think there is a plethora of "medical spas" and "retail vitamins" "businesses" emerging within physician practices.

Patient safety is in jeopardy because nurses and physicians are distracted trying to keep up with the increasing demands of Big Pharma and insurance profiteers. With all due respect, Harvey. Don't you be fooled. If you or anyone has a better suggestion as opposed to the status quo of Big Insurance and their shareholders, please tell me. I'm just trying to put the CARE back in healthcare.

Linda

On 05/25/09 7:50 PM, Harvey Stelman wrote:
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Dear Linda,

A European Socialistic system is what we are headed for. Do not think of what health-care the people in Congress get, although we do pay for it. The government regulates the insurance companies, they now want to regulate how much money you can earn. Please do not be fooled, our President does not want our country to set standards, he wants us to be equals.

Look at how much of your money goes to health-care of illegal aliens. Do you want to treat them for free? You may say yes but what if half your practice was like that?

On 05/25/09 7:15 PM, Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D.,MS., FACOG wrote:
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Thanks for your comment Harvey, however members of Congress and the Senate have a health plan that does not involve insurance companies. Can that be defined as socialism? Our libraries are paid by tax dollars. Can that be defined as socialism? As a physician, I'm tired of battling with insurance clerks so that my patients can receive care. When I refer a pregnant woman to the hospital because I suspect her unborn child is in trouble and may need an emergency C/Section, I don't appreciate a clerk refusing her admission because she's in the "wrong hospital that doesn't accept her insurance."

If members of the Senate and Congress don't have to deal with unethical insurance companies, why should the American people?

Thanks again for your comment.

On 05/25/09 6:26 PM, Harvey Stelman wrote:
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Dear Dr. Galloway,

Socialism has no place in health-care. My wife works for Abbott Labs and R & D will be cut immediately. That's why Europe produces less drugs than it once did, fifteen percent of the doctors in England were trained in India or Pakistan, people wait months for surgery and we have NO money to pay for it.

Every doctor I know stands with you. Mr. Spend-Spend-Spend is killing our country.

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