Comments on: What Should New Mexico do about Medicaid?

By: Medicare New Mexico

Medicare New Mexico — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:21:18 +0000

Expand medicaid services is trouble economical wise…

By: Ted Berthelote

Ted Berthelote — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:33:49 +0000

The shortage of physicians is not related to the size nor number of medical schools, but rather to the myriad distortions of the medical services marketplace created by government interventions. There is little left of the free market in either the training of doctors or the delivery of medical service. With he State controlling nearly every aspect of medical practice it is no surprise that we have shortages, corruption, and waste.

By: Michael W Davis, DDS

Michael W Davis, DDS — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:09:14 +0000

In dental health care, the private Medicaid dollars are often sourced to fraudulent operations. It’s gotten so lucrative (fraud), that private equity business has gotten in on the act. Bloomberg Business News has run multiple investigative reports, as has Frontline (PBS), & Byron Harris out of Dallas.

I’m absolutely NOT anti-business nor anti-PE firms. However, these groups set up a totally different playing field, versus small business dentistry. Fraud & patient abuse become an effective business model, w/ few consequences.

Michael W Davis, DDS

By: Don

Don — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:09:58 +0000

I agree with George that New Mexico has a shortage of doctors. However, there are other causes of the shortage besides medical school size. New Mexico has a great number of small to very small communities that lack any kind of meaningful social life. Doctors and their families desire this social life. If they can’t have it where they are they will leave. This has always existed and is the reason that most doctors prefer larger, more socially active communities. Small towns whose only music venues are rap, latino and country will not retain educated professionals.

By: george richmond

george richmond — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:23:25 +0000

Whether or how health care services are expanded is pointless until people know that the shortage of doctors in this country is a product of Congress failing to increase the size of medical schools. Capacity of our medical schools is a product of congressional failures to allow expansion.
Certainly New Mexico has a shortage of doctors and always will.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:04:34 +0000

Medicaid is free to the looter class of Obama constituents. It is paid for by those of us who work. This is typical of liberal thinking. Since they are freeloaders, all the federal “programs” (read: tax money stolen from working people and given away to freeloaders) are “free” to them.

Of course there is no free lunch. But, as usual, the freeloaders the liberals depend on for votes get theirs free year after year at our expense.

End Medicaid.