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What If No Doctor Will See You?
Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2013 | John C. Goodman

Posted on 12/14/2013 5:56:58 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: ladyjane

Your third sentence conflicts with the second, and supports the first.


61 posted on 12/14/2013 11:55:02 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: scrabblehack
The last time I went to the emergency room — caught a really bad cold during Christmas...cost me $125 and the insurance wouldn’t pay because it wasn’t an emergency.
Actually, you're lucky. My doctor charges more than your ER.
62 posted on 12/14/2013 11:58:37 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Government involvement in health care has been messing things up for decades, and it’s getting worse.
No arguments from me. I'm old enough to remember doctors making house calls.
I also recall we'd pop into his office for an "emergency" like a fish hook stuck in a finger or a ripped up knee from sliding on the asphalt.
He'd do his thing, then would call my mom to let her know what he did and what the bill was. Probably $15.
63 posted on 12/14/2013 12:03:21 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: VerySadAmerican
And it’s good to see Kerry and Pelosi can get their Botox treatments as needed.
Yeah, but the bigger question is, will their psychiatric bills be covered?
64 posted on 12/14/2013 12:06:06 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ladyjane

LOL - you’re right!


65 posted on 12/14/2013 12:32:40 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: scrabblehack
The last time I went to the emergency room — caught a really bad cold during Christmas..

Why would you go to the ER for a cold, really bad or not...nothing they can do but tell you to sneeze on your sleeve and collect your money (which would be more like $750 at a minimum now).

66 posted on 12/14/2013 12:46:01 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: ladyjane

I don’t want a doctor from a ‘gender balanced’ program. When someone in my family has a serious illness I want the best person possible. Male or female, black or white or Asian. That said, family lore has the second or third female doctor in the United States being a great great great grandmother of mine.


67 posted on 12/14/2013 12:57:54 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Post #65 was for you. I better quit now while I’m still behind. ;-)


68 posted on 12/14/2013 1:37:02 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Grin!


69 posted on 12/14/2013 1:38:17 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: steve86

My dad insisted on it. Yeah, I was a grown man, but...


70 posted on 12/14/2013 3:04:53 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Good father. He was probably worried about pneumonia.


71 posted on 12/14/2013 3:09:53 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Kaslin
What If No Doctor Will See You?

Just say that you're gay and the doctor refuses to see you. Then get a judge to force the doctor to see you.

If it works against florists, photographers, and bakers, why not doctors, too?

-PJ

72 posted on 12/14/2013 3:10:16 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Kaslin
Death is the finish line in the race of our lives!

Doctors are only a speed bump at best and sometimes
a slick spot in the road along the way.

Relax, millions and millions have died, and no complaints have been registered yet.

How bad could it be?

73 posted on 12/14/2013 3:51:34 PM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Jane Long
RE: “They own it.”

I agree.

And, I invented Boehner’s new campaign slogan:

“We can only repeal ObamaCare if we fund it first.”

74 posted on 12/14/2013 11:05:24 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Tupelo
RE: “Would someone please tell me just What difference does Obamacare makes?”

Well, if, as you say, you cannot afford to go to the Doctor, you will be enrolled in Medicaid, which is free.

That means you can afford to see a Doctor in 2014.

Unfortunately, your Doctor will not have an open appointment until 2016.

75 posted on 12/14/2013 11:27:34 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Kaslin

Bookmarlk


76 posted on 12/14/2013 11:37:18 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Kaslin
If no Dr. will see you, you then go to the Emergency Room…..just like today. Most hospitals have staff bylaws which compel physicians, if they want to be on staff at that hospital, to cover the area of his speciality. If you are a surgeon, and a person comes in with a chief complaint of right lower quadrant pain, with nausea, and signs of peritoneal irritation, the surgeon will be called in. If he does not treat you he will lose his staff privileges, and will cultivate a lawsuit when complications, which were avoidable, ensue. This screws the physician….he does not get paid, and he gets all of the risk. The hospital will, likewise, be served papers because they advertised they would provide physician coverage, which it failed at. The patient will suffer the risk of those complications, and the government is automatically indemnified from an action being brought against them, even though it is the compunction required by the goverment that created the situation.

This takeover of medicine will result in hundreds of thousands of people per year dying or result in morbidity which is unnecessary. It will be dominated by non physicians who have no idea what we do or the risks we take. Physicians have had enough of being conscripted to indentured servitude by centralized government. My advisee is that you stay as healthy as possible, cultivate a relationship with a physician ( GP or internist), and educate yourself about how people like obama, Reid, and Pelosi, are enslaving you….buying your vote for a subsistence. America has fallen. America no longer reveres liberty above all things. America has abandoned its heritage. If we do not recapture medicine and health insurance this next year, we never will. The loss of liberty is a snowball rolling downhill, faster and faster. Many have given up. Our educates have schooled the younger people out of the notion of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They have become platitudes full of sound and fury, signifying nothing to these people. And our agreement with one another, our Constitution, is hardly mentioned in 12 years of government schooling as well as the college years. People no longer look at their children and pray God will forgive them for stealing the future of their own little children and put them into slavery to Communist Chinese. Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor is never mentioned. Our children are aborted with impunity with little or no thought to the fact that we can't not know it is wrong to kill our offspring. We suppress the natural law for our convenience…..we have a trip planned to Bimini when the baby is due….let's kill it and enjoy the beach. And the country drops toward hell at an ever-increasing rate. There is none so blind as those who will not see. We are undone.

77 posted on 12/14/2013 11:40:38 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: kabar
RE: “The government will just mandate that all doctors must accept all patients.”

Bingo.

And, that, of course, will guarantee that the quality of new doctors will be set on a permanent downward spiral.

It also means that malpractice lawsuits will be capped, and, eventually, forbidden.

And - for some reason no Conservative understands - it means House Republicans just funded ObamaCare for two years.

78 posted on 12/14/2013 11:50:09 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
Love your new campaign slogan for Boehner...good timing, since he just filed his reelection paperwork. (We have to fund it to "repeal" it wink, wink...since we couldn't just defund it!)

Speaking of *quality of docs*... we're receiving flyers, daily, from the area satellite hospitals. EVERY flyer we've received has lists of docs name's for specialty practices - all of which we cannot pronounce. They seem to mostly be from India, but it's hard to tell (by the spelling of their names).

The docs will be imported...but, no worries....they'll be mandated to see you :(

79 posted on 12/15/2013 7:38:45 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: mountaineer1997

“Note about the $1500-2500 concierge fee to keep a doctor.

That is $1500-2500 each and every year, not a one time fee.

I had paid once, then found out it was recurring, and had to quit...Now I have a Nurse Practitioner who does a better job anyway.”


Despite my own personal VP of doctors, I am STRONGLY against BB thwarting the practice of practicing medicine, solely for the sake of doing something worse to it later.

I suppose they ought to soon face the harsh reality that they will no longer be able to live the redundant lifestyles that they think they are entitled to. At least, no longer at the patients expense.

And WE, are doomed. Unless of course, we get off of our complacent bums and show those who are SUPPOSED to be leading, the action, and definition of what it means to lead. Constitutionally, of course. It’s language, and content cannot be mistaken. We MUST wake up to the reality that we are NOT a people born, nor bred to live in captivity. Because that’s what this is. Incrementally so.

Or has that become the true aspiration of America? To become a Zombie Nation?

Alone, I have no ‘voice’. But TOGETHER, we can accomplish the same things that forged the path to our Greatness as a nation, as those before us had done. Like the TRUE American, these are things cannot be forgotten because the Constitution is IN us. WHAT other way have we known? These things cannot be suppressed, or erased by anything in the “digital age’, or by any social or political pressures because, the Constitution is PART of us.

It’s as inherent to the True & Faithful Patriot, as the now tainted air we breath.

Help Us, O Lord, Father in Heaven. We have fallen so far away from you, and have turned to our OWN hearts for wisdom. And I pray, Lord, that You ignite in us the things You would have us do...to bring Glory to Your Name, and by making us bold in Your Spirit, when it comes to fighting our adversary, the devil.....as we will not endure what cometh WITHOUT You. Father...I ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Sorry for the rant. And tho not directed at you personally, I am sick and tired of what’s happening to MY country, AND world.


80 posted on 12/17/2013 12:18:46 AM PST by ourworldawry
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