Posted on 12/11/2013 2:50:15 AM PST by lowbridge
A Kentucky M.D. named Stephen Kiteck is shutting down his medical practice and citing Obamacare as the reason.
Dr. Kiteck published an ad in the local paper saying his office will close Dec. 31, 2013 because of Obamacare. He invites his patients to drop by prior to that date to pick their charts.
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And so it begins.
I’ve had my GP since 1983. He is the GP for my whole family and my grand daughters. His wife died a couple of years ago and he has been struggling with the load of patients, rules and regulations plus all the insurance hassles.
I’ve spoken with him several times and it appears to me that he’ll probably tough it out for a little bit to see what happens, but I’m afraid he’ll end up quitting.
His name is Patel, and he has a large foreign patient roster, many of them who can’t afford expensive tests, etc. and he goes out of his way to find places that do cheap MRI’s etc. I believe that Obamacare will put a stop to this and he’ll end up retiring.
I sure am going to hate having to find another one after all this time I’ve spent getting him ‘trained’.
Yep. And he will have to go back to work at the point of a government gun.
We’ll be lucky to find veterinary school drop-outs eventually.
Who is John Galt.
At the moment, I still have my PCP but I’m really afraid I’ll lose him. He doesn’t belong to the AMA, but to another group of physicians and surgeons. He’s in his early 60s and says he’ll stick it out for awhile, but most of his colleagues are no longer seeing Medicare patients. I have a rare genetic disorder and it’s hard for me to find doctors who even know about it, much less how to treat it. I’m so afraid I’ll lose him in a few years if not sooner and then my quality of life and life expectancy will drop considerably. Thank you, Barack Obama and John Roberts.
I see a specialist as well, and thus far I've been able to stay with him. He's a sole practicioner, though, and expects to be forced into joining a medical group just to survive the costs of doing business under Obamacare. I can't help but suspect that he's weighing the retirement option as well - especially since he owns a 40' sailboat. I just have a hunch he's going to go the expatriate route and pick up a medical gig down in the islands. If I were in his shoes, that's what I'd do.
Well, you can’t blame any of them for refusing services basically for free or just cutting their losses and enjoying life. Imagine spending all those years studying, spending all that money on college and working all those long hours only to have the government pull the rug out from under you when you should be reaping the rewards for all your efforts!
The doctor is also 64. Sounds more like he's just retiring and is taking advantage of the timing to take a swing at Obamacare. Not that I can blame him for wanting to do that.
Yeah, that way all of your “private” data is readily available to anyone who wants it.
HIPPA is a joke on you. It only keeps your spouse and family from discussing your condition with Dr.s and nurses so they aren’t bothered with your inane bothersome questions.
Anyone else can get them pretty much at will...dovetails nicely with all the personal info they now demand just to sign up for insurance.
Well, you can’t blame any of them for refusing services basically for free or just cutting their losses and enjoying life. Imagine spending all those years studying, spending all that money on college and working all those long hours only to have the government pull the rug out from under you when you should be reaping the rewards for all your efforts!
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Right, and this also goes for a lot of us non-medical types as well. We worked hard, and are at that point where we really should be reaping the rewards — but it’s just not happening — for any of us.
He will be replaced by an affirmative action type that don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. Just as Obama and the Democrats planned to happen.
That will indeed be a problem. I was talking to my PT's wife the other day (she runs the front office), and she was telling me they have had a practice of cutting price breaks in the copays for their fixed-income patients. That becomes illegal 1/1/14. Hospitals that operate as charities for the poor by doing the same thing will all be prohibited, and must charge full rate to everybody. Another way people are about to be priced out of their health care.
Computerizing the medical records seems to be the reason he’s closing shop. I suspect
he can hook up with another group and leave that problem to them should he desire to do so.
I think this is what makes me the angriest about liberals and their GD ACA and delusions of utopia.
I’m an NP — and I’m here to tell you — MD’s are some of the most brilliant people imaginable. Worked this past summer with a pediatrician (who sees a constant stream of mostly Medicaid patients) trained at top schools with 25+ years of experience. The guy literally stood on his feet for 10 hours everyday, no lunch EVER, with a caseload of 70 so patients a DAY. He is over 50 ...but still works like a damn dog and runs his office on a shoestring. I know he is well off, but he DESERVES it, for crying out loud. All day long, the buck stops with him. He is typical of so many docs who run their own practices OR the hospitalists who round on massive caseloads every single day.
This is the tragedy. Due to the petty shortsightedness of liberal politicians, the unionites, the filthy OWLS scumballs, the Gibbmedats, and worthless, talentless, burdensome people who don’t believe people who are smart and work hard deserve any reward for their efforts, we will throw away these people — people who have been trained in our country and who have provided care (and JOBS)for people our entire lifetimes.
Americans deserve what they’re going to get if they don’t find the gonads to chuck this off — that’s all the more I can say.
Dr. Galt.
My dad had back trouble last year. He first went to his internist, where he had to fill out all his information on a form because he hadn't been there since the previous year. The internist sent him to a pain management specialist, where he had to fill out the very same information on a nearly identical form. The pain management specialist treated my dad for about 6 months, and when that didn't solve the problem the internist sent him to a neurosurgeon, where he had to fill out the very same information on the same kind of form. The neurosurgeon, based on some of the symptoms, sent him to an orthopedist where dad had to fill out the very same information on the very same forms. Later there was an MRI, where again he had to fill out the very same information, which led to the final diagnosis and surgery. On checking in to the hospital, you guessed it. Dad had to fill out the information all over again.
What's so bad about electronic records? Where a doctor could access basic information about new patients without requiring them to fill out the same crap over and over again? How much money could be saved, how many people could be saved if records were centralized and doctors had the ability to see their medical history and possibly prevent mistakes in diagnosis and treatment?
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