Posted on 06/14/2013 8:10:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Doctors are hereby declared to be unpaid feral government employees.
Now shut up and do as you are told.
So, Justice Roberts will now find a constitutional obligation to work for the government??
NSA and unintentional ‘agents’ are reading his,
and other SCOTUS, emails and calls to their children
at this very moment to insure the outcome
against the American people ... who do not want it.
But what the heck?
It violates the US Constitution, too.
I know of a doctor who is going back to paper records, and cash payment. Wonder how soon the goons will com after him?
Not too far from Directive 10-289.
It’s the only way that they can make people comply with onerous laws.
I wonder what it would cost to visit a local doctor who has no medical malpractice insurance and doesn’t deal with insurance companies - and only takes cash payment.
I suspect it would be pretty reasonable.
Going thru this now with some extended family in Florida.
Their doctor was recently diagnosed with cancer and had to retire suddenly. Nobody but nobody within a 50 mile radius is taking new Medicare patients. And given the demographics down there I have to presume that they’ll ALL be running for the hills.
I was at my doctors office and heard his receptionist on the phone telling someone they are not accepting any new patients at all.
Medicare has “controlled” costs, by stiffing the payee altogether or delaying payments, waiting for a compromise settlement (always in Medicare’s favor), reducing the “allowable” fee by a considerable factor.
Yet they will unquestioningly pay some outrageous sums for “politically correct” treatments of specific disorders.
Too bad that there are no bureaucrats in Medicare that understand the economics of health care and treatment.
If doctors (or their staffs) do not have to deal with nearly so much paperwork, they may deliver health services at a much reduced cost, which then is passed on to the consumer.
But if the “consumer”, i.e., the third-party payer, does not care, then, what limits the costs, then they are without restraint in assessing their clients for their services.
This is the nasty little surprise that is buried in Obamacare (the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”).
No protection for patients and totally UNAFFORDABLE care for the unfortunates subject to the provisions of this tax bill.
On several past threads I’ve written I have 4 Dr.s I go to that have retired this year.
And I just got a letter from the physical therapy office I’ve gone to that starting July 1 they no longer accept Medicare patients.
Next year when OBcare really kicks in it’s going to get much worse.
RE: Nobody but nobody within a 50 mile radius is taking new Medicare patients.
Simple big government solution -— PASS A LAW THAT *REQUIRES* ALL DOCTORS NATIONWIDE TO ACCEPT MEDICARE PATIENCE.
Punishment for not complying — REVOCATION OF LICENSE TO PRACTICE.
Let’s see what Justice John Roberts tells us about it...
Just as soon as they find the necessary lever in the NSA “stack of stuff” from whence they first pressured his finding of “Constitutional” last summer.
My doctor accepts Medicare and told me Monday that I must have 12 physical therapy sessions BEFORE Medicare will pay their portion, new rule.......thanks, Obamacare. That means a month more of really bad back pain for me.
No wonder doctors are getting out.
I have some serious medical issues and need specialists who are knowledgeable about my rare condition. That said, since I moved, I have had a terrible time just finding a doctor who would take Medicare and/or new patients. Finally got a great PCP who knows about my primary condition and is a tea partier to boot! I love him but he’s in his early 60s so who knows how long he will practice under Obamacare! My premiums have gone up every month this year. Can’t wait to see what they will be next year! Every time I refill my meds, my copay is higher, too! I have had to just stop taking some of my asthma meds and hope for the best. Obamacare will surely kill off all of us seniors with serious medical problems quickly, as planned.
I think a lot of people will opt not to buy 0-care exchange or even costly employee insurance. When healthy, they can go to private clinics for minor problems. If they have to go the hospital for a catastrophic event, a lot of people will simply go bankrupt and go on Medicaid. But like seniors that require long term nursing care, many will take steps now to shield assets. Shielding assets could include many things, but I suspect that many will just buy a mattress.
That doctor would have to know about health, nutrition, healing and would have to be ready to treat without the usual dependency on tech based tests and pharmaceuticals and his patients will have to be of the same philosophy. They will have to have a working relAtionship with the local health food stores, whose industry is as under attack as the self defense sector
These do tots will do well but since this admin has no interest in health but in power and destruction it will be where their philosophy will be obvious
All part of the plan....Cloward-Piven, to enable a complete government takeover of health care.
Docs won’t be allowed out any more than patients will. It’s a wonder that only a minority is clear on this as the NSA snooping is defended by pundits and house republicans. No sense of history philosophy despotism is a big problem in this country which had better get a clue
Bottom line, the Zero regime will find a way to make everyone jump through their hoops thew way they want them to. Dissidence will not be tolerated by the media selected boy-king wannabe.
I'd like to see doctors advertise their costs - I got hit with a $390 bill for a thyroid blood check once. I told them I wasn't paying it because I was not told what the cost would be beforehand. I asked the doctor if he would buy a car before he knew what it would cost, he said, "Of course not". Well????
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