We closed our practice 3 years earlier than anticipated because of pending nobamacare requirements for electronic filing and so forth. We’ve never been happier.
My mother’s doctor stopped seeing all Medicare patients 1 year ago.
My doctor folded his practice and joined a local hospital.
Ohio State University Hospitals has been expecting all this -— the reversal of the trend toward outlying communities and distant services. Outlying community health care centers will close.
OSU expects people to *swamp* big hospitals, which will be, for the most part, the only health care “systems” remaining.
Like the old days of my grandfather, to see a doctor about anything more than a broken bone or the flu ... you will travel at length, for help.
The Mayo Clinic was set up years ago, to service so many outlying patients who needed *good quality care.*
Yet unlike the Mayo Clinic, the city “big systems” are fat with bureaucratic benchwarmers - ie in-house politicians - and these hospitals are political systems before they are concerned about actual applied health care. They relish the oft-stated “health care” which is meaningless political chatter without substance. You get words, not actual care.
You particularly get a lot of *their* becoming impatient with you, as they realize their power over you and “work your case.”
Only in some cases of emergency, might you chance upon a doctor or surgeon whose skill enables him or her to demand an immediate and very capable staff.
In other words, the country will transform from a few 100 people able to find a good doctor closer to home, to 10,000+ people able to find that good doctor at some distance (if somehow you can arrange it!) ... thanks to the burdens and pressures imposed by ObamaCare upon us all.