Posted on 09/30/2022 8:12:16 AM PDT by DFG
The Biden administration announced it would again reduce payments to Medicare physicians, this time by 8.42 percent. According to a recent survey, 92 percent of medical group practices report that Medicare payments do not cover the cost of providing care.
The federal government can stay in business when it takes in less revenue than it expends. Why? Because it can print money and no one else can. To stay in business, physicians will have to reject Medicare patients; access will decrease once again. And with Democrats pushing legislation like the wrongly named Inflation Reduction Act, things will only get worse.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) took $716 billion from Medicare to pay for non-medical, bureaucratic spending. Before the ACA, the average maximum wait time to see a primary care doctor was an unacceptable 99 days. After Obamacare was implemented with its cuts to physician payments, wait times increased to a medically unconscionable 122 days. Patients have to wait four months to find out if belly pain is gas, an ulcer, or cancer. With the latest round of cuts, the wait times could stretch from months to years.
In hearings prior to the passage of the ACA, Robert Moffit of the Heritage Foundation warned Congress, “You can’t get more of something by paying less for it.” Democrats disregarded this obvious economic truism in 2010 and are doing so again in 2022.
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Democrats want medicare for all.
Perhaps they could come up with some fake mRNA vaxes to cut the costs. /s
As a matter of fact, Medicare is not cheap.
My insurance expenses went a lot higher since I have retired!
And the coverage is rather poor!
I had a doctor’s office tell me they didn’t accept Medicare.
Reason was they’d need to hire 2 full time employees to do paperwork - and they would then be subject to burdensome regulations and restrictions.
Don’t blame them.
People who think Medicare is free are the delusional young who have never used the system.
I’m guessing this newest horror is anoter way insurance companies are using to push people into ‘Advantage plans”... total medical care long term horrors.
It is why insurance is NoT healthcare
/s (or is it?)
The Biden administration announced it would again reduce payments to Medicare physicians, this time by 8.42 percent.
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In an ironic twist to the scheduled 14% Medicare hike
Yes, there is the deduction from SS for medical payments (Part A), IIRC which is the 80% thing for hospital and medical costs. There is also Part B which is your supplemental insurance that is supposed to take care of the 20% part. Depending on what type of Part B insurance you have, you might have a copayment or not.
My Part B insurance is a grandfathered Plan F supplemental which basically pays for anything that Medicare doesn’t and there really isn’t a copayment. The problem is that my Part B supplemental is three times what the Part A SS deduction is every month.
From my experience with two emergency room visits and ICU stays and a recent medically necessary surgery stay, I’m glad I have that old Plan F Part B insurance. There no way I’d opt for a Medicare Advantage plan because one trip to the hospital could bankrupt you. The only great thing about Advantage, IMO is that it’s cheap each month.
77 years old, forced onto Medicare by my employer’s insurance when I retired.
Nowhere in my rural Ohio region can I get a genuine MD as my primary care provider. You have to settle for a Nurse Preactitioner or an Osteopath. Or a “doctor” with a medical degree from some unpronounceable school in South Asia who can’t speak intelligible English. Ask me how I know.
These characters are unable to see me for even 15 minutes during an office visit. My current PCP (a D.O.) will no longer do an A1c (long-term blood glucose) test when I ask for one. Haven’t had a liver panel done in two years. Told me about a year ago that his contract requires him to see 40 (yes FORTY) patients a day. I could go on.
Medicare = Government rationed “health care”.
I’ve received medical care in Kansas and Iowa. I’ve had zero problems with appointments or procedures. Any pa’s are under a doctor’s supervision and I see doctors and surgeons as well. IMO, docs who refuse Medicare pts. aren’t good docs. They are pill pushers.
I receive quarterly statements so I’m aware of what medicare pays. I’m also on medicaid which picks up the rest.
I don’t partake of the supplementals because they seem to have more limits.
The Soviets said, they pretend to pay, we pretend to work.
Most physicians are employed now so it will be administrators deploying non physician providers even more. Automation is the way it’s going.
The problem is particularly bad in Alaska, because Medicare does not adjust its rates in high-cost areas. So most doctors want nothing to do with Medicare patients. Anyone who is over 65 and moves to Alaska will find it almost impossible to find a doctor.
It’s all part of the plan. Screw up health care bit by bit until the sheep start bleating for universal health care. Or just tell the media to tell everyone we all want it.
Actually, more like Medicaid for all.
Actually, more like Medicaid for all.
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Will eventually progress to
no doctors at all
for all.
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
The Aamerican people understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Screwing up the medical system - that’s what libtards do
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