Please Dr Casey

"There is no way this can be correct."

"I am afraid that is right. I know you might find it hard to believe but the paperwork doesn't lie."

"It's simply impossible. No way Jose. Or Pedro. Or whatever the fuck your name is. It is just not possible."

"I am telling you it is correct senor. You order a pastrami on rye with mayonnaise. It says it right here."

"Do I look like a rube to you. A yokel. DO I LOOK LIKE I COME FROM WISCONSIN!!!!!"

"No then you would have ordered it with cheese."

I am sorry Doctor but the lab results confirm it.

"You have an incurable pompadour."
"Maybe I can stop it Nurse Roberts. 30 cc's of Brylcream stat!"
"I am sorry that just won't cut it Dr. Casey. Witch Hazel, Brylcream even Dippity Doo will not help. I am afraid you are stuck with it. But then you are Italian so what do you expect?"
"I know....let's have sex."

"As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care"

NYT: Just as millions of people are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to many doctors, prompting some physicians and consumer advocates to warn that the reductions could make it more difficult for Medicaid patients to obtain care.

The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on Thursday — just weeks after the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy of payments they received from Medicaid. (read more)

I Don't Need No Doctor

Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm) and Bill O'Reilly go at it in this contentious clip. They both have good points, and they both overstate their points, but healthcare is evolving, and some of it is devolving away from physicians.



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Clinton to Obama: Let Americans Keep Healthcare Plans

That's Bill, as you know. USA Today, don't bother. I picked the one at the top only to have something to link, because you should be asking, "Who cares what Bill Clinton says to Obama?"

Switch things around a minute and pretend to be a progressive liberal and imagine the media all around deciding it is significant for all to know what George Bush Jr. has to say to Obama about the present day healthcare bill situation. As a liberal activist how annoyed are you? Or are you finding his opinion relevant? Interesting?

Why did I hear Bill Clinton's opinion five times? Why did I see his grandfatherly face so many times yesterday?

And what kind of advice is that to give anyway. How does ex-president Bill Clinton imagine it is possible for Obama to honor his oft-repeated promise to millions of Americans who have already had their policies cancelled? Bill Clinton is telling Obama to do something that is not possible to do.

And the Republican's legislation will not fix that. The plans are already gone. Any replacement will not be the same. Not only can that promise not be kept, it cannot be fixed. Not for the people who have already lost it. Nice try, Republicans, but again, too little way too late. The Republican party cannot even take advantage of a good crisis when it is handed to them like this. That is how enervated they are. Now is the time to make noise about straight up repealing this piece of poo and its eight foot stack of regulations and keep at it unrelentingly, but that would require spines and something more fervent than old-white-man energy and Versailles-minded seat-holders.

TPM, House Dems Oppose
HuffingtonPost John Barrow becomes first Dem to join Rep proposal
The Hill, Keep You Plan Bill Puts Obama in Bind

and more. [republic proposal keep your plan]