Further proof that Obamacare is DESIGNED to DESTROY the insurance and healthcare industry.
I had occasion to go to my GP doc for my annual physical. My doc is a decent medical guy for my needs....and making casual conversation is impossible b/c of time limitations.
I know he’s a flaming liberal b/c I asked him last year what he thought about obamacare.......he said he thought *everyone should have health insurance*. I gave him a loud *GRRRR!*
This year, as he was walking me out to the front desk....asked him if obamacare was problematic for his practice......he said *no, not really*...whatever that meant....and he quickly offered much to my surprise, *you know I knew obama in Chicago, we went to lunch often. He was exactly like he is now, in Chicago*. I said, * ya mean he was a douche bag then and still is?* Doc laughed. I added *Why couldn’t they work a deal with the 10% that don’t have health insurance, instead of messing it up for 100% of the people?* he said, *You know what they are trying to do?* I said yes, create a single payer system* He said, *Bingo*. So much for my input into the medical debacle convo.
“Further proof that Obamacare is DESIGNED to DESTROY the insurance and healthcare industry.”
I am a professional hospital medical coder. As much as I ABSOLUTELY HATE OCare: The new coding set (ICD-10) has been in the works long before OCare. Actually its implementation has been postponed twice already. A version of ICD-10 has been in use worldwide, except in the US, for quite a while. It was postponed due to the enormous expense to hospitals, doctor’s offices, insurance companies, and the US gov’t (medicare). The main problem now is that setting the start date of 10/1/14 on top of a mandated electronic record and the OCare milehigh stack of regulations,it will financially ruin many healthcare providers. The change from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 is like changing from English to Russian. The codes, code fields, and root word definitions are changing. At my hospital, we are already spending hours and hours taking on-line courses to learn the new system. It is costing the hospital a lot of money; the IT (info technology) dept is also greatly impacted by this code set change.
So although OCare didn’t dream this up; I agree with poster G Larry. it will help bankrupt and destroy our healthcare system.
Of course the US version, has many more codes than the international version. Just gotta love those statistics. /sarc