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Posted on 11/03/2013 5:02:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
You would think that when your party is burying a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster. But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you. A birdie sent me this:
FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations. The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.
Many more people will be uninsured. The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach.
The out of pocket costs required by Obamacare's Silver Plan for a non-smoking mother and father with two children making a gross before income taxes of $50,000 (roughly average salary for VA) would be $13,765 per year including the deductible of $10,400. That's 28% of their gross income -- not very affordable and about the same as guidelines for a mortgage payment. For such a family making $100,000 of gross income, The cost would be $21,431 including the deductible of $12,700, or 21% of gross income.
With such high deductibles doctors are stuck with trying to collect cash from the patients, even at regulated charge structures. Thus is makes sense for primary care doctors not to participate in Obamacare, medicare and medicaid. They should encourage patients to participate in Concierge Care and insurance programs run by the doctors themselves with patients who can do simple math. Patients can take out catastrophic insurance with high deductibles for major surgeries. Tax deductability for individual medical savings accounts would make health care more affordable.
The head of Obamacare programs, Berwick, loves the socialized medical system in the UK, but never mentions that malpractice insurance is minimal. In the UK, panels of doctors review and approve malpractice awards, rather than emotional juries misled by trial lawyers. Malpractice reform like this with caps on malpractice awards would go a long way in making health care affordable.
I hope physicians rise up and speak out for common sense, protecting quality medical care in the US and giving patients freedom to choose
THIS along with the fact that Terry McAuliffe has already said he'd go to the government shutdown mat to get a state exchange in Virginia. Unbelievable. Combine the chaos of thousands of people across Virginia losing their health insurance, we are going to add to that on the state level by forcing doctors to accept patients they can't afford to help? Unbelievable. Dark days are ahead, but there is still time. Three days to make sure this does not happen.
Democrats in Virginia will drive up health care costs, drive doctors out of the state, and then drive health care costs up even more because there will not be enough doctors practicing in the state.
va ping
Mr. Roberts.
clink clink tinkle everyone?
Where did that sponge go?
The hemostat?
Remember when the AMA opposed Medicare? What a cluster.
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How many didn’t see THAT coming...
Va, flush the rats starting with McAuliffe, I’m beginning to smell the stench down here in NC.
Raise your hand if you remember that the key rationale for ramming this POS bolus down the public throat was because we had 30 million uninsured Americans.
all that will do is drive prospective doctors into other fields and then they can bring in are their non English speaking ME male doctors who think female patients are lower than their camels. Just had a run in with one of them, he talked to my husband who could not answer his questions, and is use to language issues cause he is a ret. prof. as well as Ret. SCPO. But he would not talk to me the patient.
Wasn’t there a buried provision of obamacare making doctors liable to be impressed into service for the govt?
(err “nationalized”?)
anyone who attended a govt funded school or got a govt funded or guaranteed loan could end up as a govt employee?
when humans become a “resource’ to be controlled by the govt
I remember.
HHC’s husband
And when Boxer is no longer useful, they will ship him off to the glue factory....
Easy problem to resolve. Make all medical practitioners and their families wear tracking devices. Never allow doctors to vacation with tier families out of state. Then we can cut the pay of greedy doctors and make them live in government supplied housing units. /s
How very Soviet of her. How about we force food stamp recipients to mow our lawns and wash dishes?
When people start to balk at progressive nostrums you can bet the farm that the left will reach for forced compliance as the next step. Soon, the gulags and Holomodor.
Well, it’s come full circle, and is out in the open. The Dems are now officially calling for the re-institution of slavery. Only now, instead of picking cotton, the slaves will check you blood pressure and give you a colonoscopy.
yes, that script has already been played out in the UK's NHS.
She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
Ms. Murphy went on to say that she believes doctors should not be allowed to move away from their current place of practice, sell their practice, change their profession, retire or die under penalty of death.
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