Posted on 10/25/2015 1:52:19 PM PDT by grumpygresh
“The provision states that uninsured patients, and ONLY uninsured patients may use credit, a credit card, a check, or a draft (but not cash). This implies two things: (1) Insured patients cannot pay for pain treatment that their insurance supposedly covers but denies in their case.”
What about co-pay?
How does this work with those Health Savings Accounts?
It’s banning the use of cash at pain clinics so they can track who is getting pain medication. It’s probably because pain medication is on the right government schedule to be highly regulated and the gov wants to know who gets it. It’s often misused, sold, etc. More gov control freak behavior.
Stated purpose. Reduce selling of prescription narcotics controlled substances.
Actual purpose. Totalitarian state, incremental elimination of cash. Also, more bureaucracy and new fees for pain clinics (making it even more expensive). More invasion of healthcare privacy which is a total joke. A beta test to see if people will stand up to tyranny.
Sad to say a rino is responsible.
Why did you leave out the part where this is specific to PAIN clinics?
Yeah but he's a Republican! If this was a Dem, we'd be computer chipped by now /S
Legal tender, valid for all debts, public and private.
Not recently, about 20 years ago but it wasn’t a bank either, C.U.
When cash is outlawed only outlaws will have cash.
This will affect only honest people, as is their intention.
1) If the clinic does not accept cash, there is less chance of being robbed, although that means hanging a "NO Cash in Facility" sign right next to the "Gun-Free Zone" sign to discourage hold-ups.
2) If the patient knows the clinic won't accept cash, the patient is less likely to carry a lot of cash to the clinic. That could reduce the chance of getting mugged.
#2 is a better reason than #1. "Pain" clinics in bad neighborhoods can be a thug magnet.
The morons that write laws like this spend half of their lives coming down from drug induced malaise and the other half getting there.
complete oversight of all transactions for the NWO and this is just another baby step?
Are they going to make silver illegal? No barter?
As far as I knew, the feds already keep track of who gets certain pain meds. After my son was in a bike accident, the doc prescribed Hydrocodone for him. At the pharmacy they said they couldn’t fill it unless I gave them his SSN. (No, I didn’t.)
Note that Bills are serialized and could be easily tracked with the tech of today.
3. The pain clinic can’t skim all the cash they receive from uninsured patients, and are forced to declare all the revenue to the IRS!
In a cashless economy it only takes the stroke of a finger on a computer to delete or transfer your assets. A scammers and hackers wet dream.
I would also think that 14th amendment would apply. Why should insured patients receive the benefit of using cash when a uninsureds cannot, and would have to incur the additional expense and time to get a money order?
I guess 14th amendment only works if you’re gay.
Yep, Have them sign a statement that an offer for cash payment was refused.
This is the kind of crap they use to force socialized medicine.
Cash payments have no recourse from the IRS.
If the government isn’t in control, the citizens are.
You cannot have that.
Remember two big things...... You didn’t build that and I can force you to die for my power.
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