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.
obamacare is looking more and more like what it really is, the institution of government slavery
yea, I guess this makes voting for Sarvis so much more attractive to the liberalatarians.
It really seems to me that our public servants have forgotten their position and reason for existing.
Might be that they need to be reminded in a nice, polite and civil manner that they serve us, and that we do not serve them.
That ship has sailed. Voting only encourages them.
It's a blog...but it's not mine.;-)
You are SO correct. If he gets elected it will be because of Norfolk, Richmond and the close-in DC suburbs. He is most definitely not Virginian and never will be. He saw how The Hildebeast used New York, and he wants to do the same here. Watch for him to run with Thunder Thighs as her VP.
There is something that Dims are unable to realize with their severely limited brains. Picking cotton is something that can be learned very quickly (I speak as an expert) some people are much better at it than others but most people can learn to do a passable job in about five minutes. That is the kind of work slaves can be forced to do to avoid being beaten and starved. A physician requires a little more time to learn the job. All the beating and starving that can be done will never force someone to be a physician, a veterinarian, a mathematician, an engineer, an electrician, etc., if it would then old time plantation owners would have had their own veterinarians and physicians in the slave quarters.
His smile is dishonest and obnoxious.
The government has the doctors by the b***s. On a whim, any state Board of Medicine can yank or restrict the license of any doctor through administrative dictate. It is governed by administrative law so the doctors have no chance when push comes to shove. The only things a doctor can do is move out of that state or retire. Many will if this sort of slavery advances down the pike. Stay healthy...it may prove to be your only recourse.
And, because of changes in medical school enrollment and in work rules, we have a curious inverted work hours pyramid.
Physicians 50-60 work more that those 40-50, who in turn work more than those 30-40.
So, when a 50+ physician retires, he will need two replacements.
Another reason to vote for Cucenilli
IMHO their is an inextricable link between the GM bankruptcy / bondholder haircut, the Sebilius Mandate, and now Health Insurance "Contracts". I.E. the total destruction of Contract Law, and it has gone unnoticed and unabated. Who will stop them from going after Life Insurance and Annuity "Contracts" ?????
Yes...someone needs to tweet this to Cuccenelli. FORCING docs to accept patients!!
Freedom is dead to RATs. Look for massive retirements and relocations of doctors if such a thing is approved.
Doctor Thomas Hendricks, from Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged"
they talked about this at the Leesburg rally with Levin.
The only cure for that is to complain to the doc's bosses, frequently and loudly. Force them to get rid of the damned Muslims.
Is it 1776 yet?
("Is it 1776 yet" is the new "Who is John Galt?")
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