Haven’t you heard? The liberals are saying that Liberty is “un-American.”
Besides, just because the doctor “doesn’t accept insurance” only means he won’t process the claim. Unless the plan is network-only, the patients can just file it themselves, just like it always was in the old days before insurance companies got too big for their britches.
Face it Lib-Docs!... your gravey train is approaching the station!
I would guess that a huge portion of the cost of a medical office is the staff required to deal with insurance. Do away with that and the price distortion introduced as various companies decide what they’ll pay, thus requiring that costs be redistributed onto others, and the cost of operating will greatly reduce.
However, legislatures are already reacting, threatening to pull the licenses of doctors who do not accept insurance.
Well doctors did support Obamacare didn’t they?
#2) As in the proposed Hillarycare legislation of 1996, accepting fee for service would be illegal, subject to felony charges and license revocation.
The moment health care becomes a “human right”, health care workers become slaves.
“There’s a hint in the NYT piece that other doctors think it’s irresponsible for their colleagues to stop taking insurance just as the Obamacare rollout promises to strain practices and hospitals past capacity.”
Peer pressure by academic and socialist doctors will somehow convince independent and concierge doctors to do what? Go out of business? Work as a serf at a big hospital corporation? This is a NYT wet dream.
Soft or hard coercion will only accelerate the early retirement of physicians or the exodus of top physicians to offshore clinics, just like the brain drain that occurred in the UK in the 70s as well as with Canadian physicians.
For those that can afford it, concierge medicine is one way to maintain quality, especially for primary care. Some innovative group practices might be able to create hybrid practices that have some providers accepting insurance, with other providers only accepting direct payment. If a patient needs more time, a quicker appointment, or a certain procedure, they could be given the option of direct pay with the opted out/ non-contracted physician.
exactly... you will have to go docs that Ocare declares to be ‘acceptable’