He's stupid. My employer does the same thing.

And I suspect that more than a few of our employed or previously employed commentors have experienced the same. This anesthesiologist has only worked for hospitals or very rich private practices. He has no clue what the real world (or family phycicians) has to put up with. I think this "punk" falls flat. Whether you consider that flat on the face or ass is inconsequential.

Gaps in coverage between jobs may be a good place to look at once we scrap Obamacare. Healthcare and health insurance do need to be reform but nowhere near how Obama did it.

Solving one small problem by creating multiple bigger problems is not a good approach.

Hate to tell the good doctor, but all the times I took on a new job, health coverage didn't kick in until you'd been on the job for 30 days.

Seems one of the ways that insurers keep costs down (all the freaking paperwork on new hires) - is to have a waiting period.

For some odd reason (in a NORMAL economy) - new hires have a disproportionate propensity to quit after a few days as 'the job isn't what I thought it was'.

I'm almost 60 yo and every job I've had (which had health insurance beenfits) required the same 30 day waiting period. I recall one or two that required a 90 day waiting period.

This guy sounds like a real idiot.

I'd love to live in his coddled world. My new employer has a 90 day wait. And you're only eligible if you work about 300 hours in those 90 days. Since it's company policy to not hire full-time employees, I doubt I'll ever be eligible.

Sounds like a typical physician. Last checkup I had to refuse $4,000 in defensive medicine "tests" that I knew from sad experience that my wife's insurance would pay less than half. A physician has trouble understanding living on $250 a week.

The problem in this day and age with using sarcasm and irony to make a point is that the vast majority of your audience won't be able to discern the sarcasm nor the irony; they'll literally miss the point.

Illustrating absurdity by being absurd can really tweak liberals, and I love to see it happen. However, I find that this story illustrates once again that loosing Democrats have by their very actions redefined the term "Bitter Clingers". Now that's icing on the cake!

I don't think he was being sarcastic. Dude has a wife and several kids, so naturally he's probably irate that the can't get his new workplace's healthcare plan for 30 days. Has the man not heard of COBRA? Or short-term health insurance?

He's a friggen physician. He should know better than anyone he can forgo medicine for a whole 30 days. If he gets sick he can treat himself, for Christ's sakes. Hell, I didn't enter a doctor's office for a 35-year stretch. I survived...