Posted on 03/28/2010 8:01:30 AM PDT by Freedom Frayed
Better beat the crowd and find a doctor.
Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.
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40% of doctors don’t accept Medicaid patients now. Obamacare adds 15 million to Medicaid rolls. 12% of doctors don’t accept Medicare patients. The reimbursement rates and controls don’t cover costs.
All the surgeons I work with are planning to retire early, move to Costa Rica or Panama and are advising their kids not to go into medicine. The younger ones are afraid they’ll never pay off all the loans and are regretting their career choice. We are in a world of hurt and must fight to repeal this atrocity against America.
The new healthcare plan, like most socialist ideas, ignores a HUGE aspect of our existing healthcare sytem; incentives. What will motivate people to become doctors, or massive investment in research and development? The healthcare industry’s focus will now shift from innovation of new cures and treatments to figuring out how to extract more taxpayers’ dollars from the bureaucracy. That’s just a matter of corrupting more elected officials, which will prove to be alot simpler than finding a cure for cancer.
No problem; since preference will be given to inner city yoots, under the obama monstrosity, there’ll be plenty of rapper wannabees who will now be enrolling in med school.
There is ONE pediatrician office in my THREE COUNTY AREA. One of them is fighting cancer and they have been trying for nearly a year to get another pediatrician because it’s virtually impossible to get a child in for a visit with one already understaffed office missing a doctor.
I can only imagine what this is going to do for that situation.
We do have a doctor shortage. This will aggravate it. But the main reason we have a doctor shortage is because of how medical schools operate. There are too few slots to meet the country’s needs and many people who are intelligent enough and who would make great doctors don’t get to because of the med school admission process.
It takes grades and test scores that get you into Ivy League quality schools in any other professional discipline to even be in competition for admission to the least prestigious of medical schools. That’s a national crisis.
All Dr.s will be forced to accept all Government run health programs or face PRISON.
Make that debtors’ prison, because you can only go so far when you lose money on every sale you make.
In ‘93 our wonderful but quite elderly doctor retired. I am almost 70 and my husband is 75 and we decided back then, that we should look for a doctor younger than ourselves so we wouldn’t be left without a doctor again. We tried several and finally found an internist who was quite young that we liked. He is now in his mid to late 40’s but we find out he is a liberal and in favor of Obamacare. I was upset and thought I wanted to find another doctor but now I am thinking we should stick with him and just not talk politics.
And this will result in a 50% decrease in doctors. YAY!!!!!
But no worries, we will have affirmative action doctors at the ready!
My motto??
Eat right, exercise everyday and hope like hell you don't get into an accident or get some genetic disease.
Other than this, ObamaCare works JUST FINE!!
They don't even have to go that far. All they have to do is make participation in Obamacare a requirement for licensure.
Keep you doctor. What do you care what his politics are anyway? They will probably change in short order.
I work with an Islamic American.
His attitude is that the doctors who refuse to work at lower rates should be put in prison until they cooperate, and all their assets confiscated.
I bet in private, The Kenyan scumbag thinks the same thing.
Good idea. Just be sure he doesn't know YOUR politics, or you may be on his list of people from whom to withhold “non-essential” treatment, as they are incentivised under Obamacare to not treat people who require “too much” medical care, to save cost. In general it is a very good idea to not talk politics with your doctor, unless you are pretty sure that his/her views agree with yours.
I already have a GP for both me and hubby and I also have a specialist for my diabetes as well as an eye Dr. I see a few times a year. With all 3 at my next appointments I plan to discuss what happens if they decide to retire and if I will be turned over to one of the other doctors in their practices. I don’t want to be left without anyone.
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