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Obamacare's Next Problem: Doc Shock
Townhall.com ^ | December 5, 2013 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 12/05/2013 4:08:35 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/05/2013 4:08:35 PM PST by Kaslin
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Doc Shock:
2 posted on 12/05/2013 4:15:30 PM PST by mkmensinger
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They were all substandard, “junk” doctors.

The MSM will bark wildly and flap their flippers.


3 posted on 12/05/2013 4:17:18 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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-- the revelation that many folks also won't be able to keep their doctors.

Beyond that many will find out there are no doctors to see at all. That will take longer to make itself apparent. The bad news on 0bamaCare is going to be a continuous stream for years to come.

4 posted on 12/05/2013 4:28:35 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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"A lot of people couldn't swing this," Turner said. "I'm lucky I can."

Oh, what an evil, evil man!!! Being able to afford something others can't! Is there no end to the injustice?!?!

5 posted on 12/05/2013 4:31:17 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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We lost some of our doctors thanks to the ACA. I’m ripped!


6 posted on 12/05/2013 4:32:31 PM PST by cantfindagoodscreenname (I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
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Growing up in Philadelphia, old “Shocky Doc” was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this thread!


7 posted on 12/05/2013 4:32:41 PM PST by GreenHornet
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Me too (South Jersey).


8 posted on 12/05/2013 4:34:43 PM PST by mkmensinger
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I lost my doctor due to kenyacare and I am on Medicare. United Health cut off all the local doctors and hospitals. I may have successfully changed over to Cigna. If so I will certainly be glad to get away from AARP.


9 posted on 12/05/2013 4:48:10 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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What seems to be happening here is that the some of the infidel doctors are retiring or otherwise getting out of the business and the Saracens are picking up more medical business. They are willing to take the radical cuts to income that come with kenycare. Ormaybe they think they can make up for the cuts by volume- try to see three times as many patients as before. I suspect most of their medical care will be dispensed through office staff.


10 posted on 12/05/2013 4:51:52 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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If I were younger, less fearful of an IRS going-over and endless suits, and a lot better with marketing and databases, I would start a cash-doctors exchange right about... now.


11 posted on 12/05/2013 4:59:53 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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The only way Obamacare works is with a slave class of MDs, and Ubama would have no problem enslaving them.


12 posted on 12/05/2013 5:02:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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I’m sure that the best doctors will stay and accept 0bamaCare plans, take deep cuts in pay, hire more staff for the increased paperwork, jam twice as many patients in per day and subordinate their judgment on treating them to regulations written by bureaucrats. That’s only logical. /s


13 posted on 12/05/2013 5:05:05 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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They were all substandard, “junk” doctors. The MSM will bark wildly and flap their flippers.

Great comments!

14 posted on 12/05/2013 5:05:37 PM PST by uncitizen (Obama said 'period', but he meant 'asterisk'.)
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Don’t worry, they can pardon Gosnell and several other doctors doing time and get them back on the street in a clutch.


15 posted on 12/05/2013 5:20:10 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Some people might call it a confidence game or swindle, others call it ObamaCare!)
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all of Providence drs in the Spokane area have been given the boot....hundreds...and the rabble can't use Providence hosptials unless absolutely necessary...of course the only other two hospitals are "for Profit" and their employees just had a one day strike yesterday...

I really hope that all the medicare people who voted for this dictatorship have to scramble for a new dr and I hope he speaks lousy English and has cold hands...

16 posted on 12/05/2013 5:26:56 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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"I really hope that all the medicare people who voted for this dictatorship have to scramble for a new dr and I hope he speaks lousy English and has cold hands...

And, for the males..., REALLY FAT FINGERS!

17 posted on 12/05/2013 5:44:28 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Steely Tom

Turner is probably a substandard attorney. Well, aren’t they all?


18 posted on 12/05/2013 9:59:10 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: arthurus

I have this idea.

Since Greece is in dire straits, and their doctors really in need of cash...why can’t we buy up forty retired cruise ships, and park them a dozen miles off the coast of the US?

We run taxi-shuttle boats from the pier of coastal towns out to the cruise ship with Greek doctors running their operation strictly on cash. You got a problem? You pay $50 and get treatment. Toss in some Filipino nurses, some Russian surgery experts, and you got a $60,000 surgery episode for less than $1,999.


19 posted on 12/06/2013 2:45:16 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The only way Obamacare works is with a slave class of MDs, and Ubama would have no problem enslaving them.

I look for obummer to start a push to nationalize all doctors sometime this spring. (Make Doc's employees of the state)

20 posted on 12/06/2013 3:25:12 AM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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