Posted on 10/20/2013 8:16:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tom Shaffrey is an old-fashioned family doctor, the kind who calls his patients by their first name and can tell the severity of their problem just by listening to them.
But he's worried that he and other small New Jersey primary-care physicians won't be able to keep practicing their brand of personal medicine because insurers are elbowing them out of business through narrow provider networks in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act.
No one knows for sure if narrow networks and the tiering system created by insurers to control costs is having an effect on the availability of doctors in Pennsylvania.
"We frankly haven't heard from" our members, said Brent Ennis, of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians.
"We have no way to know exactly how this is going to play out, but the indication is that our members will be dropped, will be excluded from seeing patients that they may have known for a majority of their lives," said Shaffrey, president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. "I think it is going to have a tremendous impact."
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I prefer the term Siberian-Americans.
Well, if they want to continue to get their care from shamans and even worse government health care, then that’s fine, but they are always looking for ways to make a buck. I doubt they would mind hosting doctors, clinics, and hospitals for non-Indians.
Ha, ha, I like that!
To be completely correct, we are all Garden of Eden-Americans. ;-)
PA Ping
Jump on it, Pennsy, folks.
PA House Speaker Darly Metcalf wants to remove Democrat activist AG Kane!!!
Let’s win this one.
Colorado won their recall against activist Dems... We can win this one too.
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