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.
what will happen is as qualified doctors quit, they will be replaced with affirmative action quacks. As was the plan.
We are screwed.
Strange how Democrats and Forcing are always in the same line.
This is where the democrats are aiming. Just wait!
We’ve BEEN screwed, since about 2012.
There's been a "Doctor draft" in the past. They'll just restart it.
Soon all doctors will be government employees, and they will all be paid the same regardless of their training or specialties.
It may be headed that way, but it’s not there yet. Unlike California, the state House of Delegates will remain heavily Repub after tomorrow. Most of Terry McClinton’s agenda will never see the light of day.
This was a once well run facility top notch care, now it is one size fits all, and they don’t give a rats behind how much pain or how many veins they blow either. That is the new 0’care you can expect. Does no good to complain about a contract doc.
I’ve complained about a couple in the past, all I get is you are a disgruntled patient. And these were
not minor issues, but for lack of witnesses would have been large malpractice suits. Not frivolous law suits.
I came off the OR table when he shot the first laser hole in my ear. He did not have an anathelogist, just himself guessing the dosage of Versed. Then being Forcibly held down to shoot a second laser hole in your ear and then inserting a very painful med, and making the patient lie with out even so much as a ice chip in one position for 2 hrs, is torture. IV bag contained 4 oz of fluid, no IV hooks in dirty bathrooms. IF you got to go use it. BTW no pain med after either. Inner Ear Perfusion is a 3 day process, and each day got worse! PRE/Post op consisted of 1 IV nurse and 1 play with my long blonde hair barbie who wore no hair nets. NO Vitals taken at any time, and most of the patients and they were stacked like cord wood for this 6-8 min procedure, where Medicare age and had multiple health issues. This is standard practice with this BIG ear clinic. No one was allowed back with the patients so no witnesses to the abuse. and the medical people will lie their heads off to keep their well paid job.
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