Posted on 10/24/2013 1:30:22 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Maybe, but can you force doctors to stay in the medical profession and practice against their will?
Another little flaw in their Frankenstein bill. They did not remember to ban cash-for-service as they did in Canada.
Very quickly an excellent cash-based healthcare system will spring up. And the prices will be much lower, as doctors now won’t have to hire big staffs to shuffle reimbursement paperwork to try and collect fees that have been aging for 200 days. They’ll pass the savings on to you, and the quality will be miles above that in the insurance-based system.
Will drive Obamacare straight out of business.
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But the fines for not having Obamacare levels of coverage are going to become quite large in future years.......
Sounds reasonable, although UK never went that far (but Canada did).
I predict 2 things:
1. Legitimate state of the art Medical Tourism facilities will start to develop on the other side of the south border. Such as those that currently exist in Panama.
2. A return to small business-based insurance purchasing co-ops will re-appear after existing up in to the 80’s or so, when they disappeared under regulatory pressures....someone with some insurance company that sees an opportunity will figure the way to do this
Yep. CommieCare will control the doctors IF they want to remain doctors.
The Medicare website lists exactly 1 doctor in my county accepting Medicare but turns out he is an ER doctor.
Would you put anything past tyrants? Doctors may be forced to work at gunpoint.
Seems like you'd need to have a separate catastrophic plan. Of course Obamacare has made those kinds of plans illegal. It might be time to look for a "religious exemption" and get a plan set up under that.
What about prescription drugs though? I sure haven't been offered any discounts when I have to buy a prescription with cash because my insurance doesn't cover it.
A lot of pharmacies have a list of drugs they sell for cheap to address this issue. Wal-Mart has a pretty long list of ones that are $4/month or $10/quarter, Costco also has a reduced-price list. Also, ALWAYS shop around for prescriptions. I’ve seen variations of as high as 3:1, and it’s not like the pharmacies always place in the same order for cost. One that was the cheapest on one item might be very high on another. It’s very strange, but you save a lot if you do the work every time.
For example, for every prescription, I call Wal-Mart, Costco, a grocery-store pharmacy, and a couple conventional pharmacies (well on a refill or other prescription I’ve had before I might only call the previous winner to verify current pricing). I don’t think I’ve ever had one of the regular pharmacies be lowest on anything, but there’s no telling whether Wal-Mart, Costco, or the grocery store will come out on top in any given case.
Perhaps a voucher system would be better.
There are excellent Dr.s in those countries. Many of them trained here and some practicing at US accredited hospitals . We will not be bringing then here because they are not dumb enough to come. We will be going there.
My surgeon moved back to Spain. I will follow him anywhere and he can now do an operation for 1/10 th of his old rate. But you do give up your ability to sue.
Or we may split up like the old Soviet Union.
I do Primary Care, 50% off for cash!
I posted years ago that when Bozo is done you will be able to get an abortion on Main Street but you will have to buy Lipitor in an alley shoved through the car window.
Hah! The libturds may think Healthcare is a Right but I got some bad news for them. Try getting what I have learned over decades out of my brain against my will. Good luck with that.
My veterinarian says that the lack of widespread pet health insurance is what keeps her prices relatively low in comparison to people docs. She says malpractice insurance drives her prices up but nowhere near what widespread pet insurance would do to prices.
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