Posted on 10/19/2013 5:50:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare — and many won’t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they’ll go broke, The Post has learned.
“ObamaCare is going to send me more patients to see and then cut the payments to provide the care — that’s what’s going to happen,” predicted Donald Moore, a primary-care doctor in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. “I will not accept it.”
Moore claims that President Obama made a big mistake by requiring uninsured residents to obtain medical coverage from for-profit insurers through the ObamaCare health exchanges instead of through public health programs like Medicaid.
Under tremendous pressure to keep costs down and profits up, Moore said he’s concerned that commercial insurers will pay doctors less for patient visits and services than either Medicaid or Medicare.
Many doctors, he argues, won’t be able to cover their costs with such skimpy fees.
Moore scoffed, “Who’s going to sustain the losses? The insurance companies? It’s basically going to be a race to the bottom.”(continued)
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Medicare already reimburses providers only about 80% of what their costs are - if loony lefties et their way and we end up with single-payer government healthcare insurance, all docs will be broke within months.....
We’re going to have a whole lot more doctors from Pakistan. Just think, now we’ll have to worry about not only their ability but their real intentions...and my apologizes to the good ones - I’m remembering those doctors/terrorists in England who tried to bomb the airport - in Scotland I believe.
Only in San Francisco.
It’s kind of hard to believe that 12 marathons and over 50 other running events didn’t exacerbate a knee problem, inherited or otherwise, but whatever. That’s a tough sell.
I happen to have an inherited tendency to high LDL as well and guess what — a poor diet makes it worse.
As well they should be.
Mercy, are we ever going to have Doctors from everywhere on earth that even thinks that wages are better here under these circumstances! Our health system is going to go downhill so fast that it will seem like one of Frances trains going for a record.
All of this will mean that America will no longer be the medical last recourse, nor will they be the inventor of medical progress devices. Our Government is to blame for all of this but the folks, ignorant as they are, will rise up and celebrate the loss.
Medical services (as they use to be known) will definitely be mainly for the wealthy but worst is that the Doctors will be quitting and heck even going to other countries to make a decent living. Why work for a socialist Government when you can do better in other countries.
The O Admin plans to remedy that by making licensing easier and by loosening and broadening enrollment in med schools.
Then there will be the thinning of patients by the death panels led by Cas Sunstein et al. Sunstein has already said (written) that children under 13 years should not be allowed expensive medical tretament like dialysis, transplants, etc, because the state does not have enough invested in them before 13 to make it feasible/cost effective. And we all know how he and O feel about old people.
The state no longer serves at our will; rather we are here to serve the state.
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Much worse than actors. Members of the AMA in academic positions and administrative roles.
In other words paper pushing liberal space-wasting hunks of meat, that probably haven't touched a stethoscope in a decade, let alone a real patient.
Only 17% of doctors belong to the AMA. This is why.
The remaining 83% actually work.
We don't have time to jaunt off to the WH lawn and put on a white coat that was just taken out its package.
Some coats still had the creases in them FGS.
I’m not “worried sick”: I’m “making plans”.
I am not trying to “sell” you anything. I am just relating my own experience. You seem to think you know more about my own health history and my family medical history which has trends and my doctors’ advice, than I do. I can only relate again, that I am the only member of my family that was a runner throughout adulthood but all of my three brothers and a sister and my dad had knee replacement surgeries because of worn cartilage in their late 50’s and early 60’s. So I don’t really care what you “believe” you think you know about me.
There is a reason doctors asks for your family medical history when doing your history and physical exams. They are not just being nosy. The information is critical in understanding your own health condition. Cancers tend to run in families. Heart problems tend to run in families. Cholesterol problems tend to run in families. What you do to alter you lifestyle to avoid these issues has very little to do with the fact that you will tend to get the problem anyway because of your genes. Women with breast cancer, usually have other women in their family history that have had it as well. Men who die of heart attacks at a young age, usually are preceded by other male family members that have died young from the same event. And the list goes on.
Running marathons and other extremely debilitating forms of exercise increase the likelihood of cancer through the release of free radicals. Running as a form of exercise is extremely tough on the knee joint, even for someone who has no history or inherited condition.
You are right, I don't want to rub his nose in it. I did let him know that I counted on him and trusted him. He told me he appreciated that.
I am hoping he is going to go to a concierge type service.
I would probably drink but just about any adult beverage I ever tried tastes like mouthwash. Coffee is the same way more or less.
What medical people I deal with here so far haven’t said anything about changing anything or closing shop.
Wouldn't that be the trend regardless?
Undesirables. The socialist solution has been death camps, but now we have obamacare.
from what i have read, that is what many doc's are thinking about since they don't have to move patients through like an assembly line and can practice the type of medicine they actually had in mind when they started medical school that and taking all the hassle of insurance companies out of the loop...
i wish you well
Drives me insane.
I guess we'll go back to having miscarriages the old-fashioned way.
Thanks, progressives™
My dermatologist stopped taking insurance a number of years ago. He is or used to be a freeper, I suspect he is considering retiring right now. It used to be fun to go and see him and discuss FR. He hasn't mentioned it lately.
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