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Awkward: HuffPo realizes that maybe Obamacare causes doctor shortages after all
Twitcy ^ | December 8, 2014 | Twitchy Staff

Posted on 12/08/2014 4:52:26 PM PST by Morgana

Earlier this year, the Huffington Post published a Kaiser Health News story scoffing at the notion that Obamacare could make it more difficult for patients to see primary care physicians: TWEETS ON LINK

But, as tweeter @back_ttys has found, HuffPo should be feeling pretty foolish right about now:

TWEETS ON LINK

Whoops!

(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aca; hhs; huffpo; obamacare; prolife
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1 posted on 12/08/2014 4:52:26 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

We need “Indentured Doctors” to lower the cost fo healthcare...

You know like how ALL Commie utopias have...


2 posted on 12/08/2014 4:55:42 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Morgana

Libtards never understand how money works or how supply and demand works.

It is just astonishing how so many seemed to believe that providing more Medicare clients at the expense of those already paying would make a better pool of resources and cut healthcare costs in general


3 posted on 12/08/2014 4:56:04 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: angry elephant

Ooops. I meant more Medicaid clients. Those who never paid anything and do not pay now, either.


4 posted on 12/08/2014 4:57:12 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Morgana

Gruber was right. Stupid people supported 0bamaCare.


5 posted on 12/08/2014 5:03:12 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: angry elephant
Ooops. I meant more Medicaid clients. Those who never paid anything and do not pay now, either.
That was the whole idea all along. Government run and controlled insurer...just push more and more into medicaid.
6 posted on 12/08/2014 5:04:10 PM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (It's only a matter of time now before SHTF.....)
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To: Morgana

Ronald Reagan summed it up best:

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.


7 posted on 12/08/2014 5:10:01 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: angry elephant
Libtards never understand how money works or how supply and demand works.

I work with a software engineer -- a guy who is quite intelligent at his job -- who seriously said to me the other day that the problem with the American healthcare is that the system is based on money, and that if they just got rid of money as the underlying mechanism, the system could be cleaned up. He was being serious. Even one of the other leftists in my office had to gently talk to him about reimbursement of doctors and nurses for their time. And things like purchasing equipment and paying utility bills in hospitals.

I didn't want to argue with him (I don't do that in the office) but I thought to myself, why aren't you working for free.

8 posted on 12/08/2014 5:10:04 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Morgana

How incredibly stupid those conservatives were when they predicted EVERY DAMN thing that has occurred from ACA. Every_damn_thing.


9 posted on 12/08/2014 5:19:11 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Morgana
My doctor's office is running like a high speed assembly line and it's the only choice I have. My impression is that quantity is replacing quality.

I've already had severe kidney failure caused by prescription drug reaction and don't have much faith it won't happen again.

10 posted on 12/08/2014 5:28:34 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Morgana

Why doesn’t Obama simply sign an executive order making more doctors?


11 posted on 12/08/2014 5:30:40 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: samtheman

He is the same type that expects great care. Well Vanderbilt had to let some 500 nurses go and that included ones who come by patient’s beds. The entitlement mentality never gets better.


12 posted on 12/08/2014 5:32:13 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: TigersEye

“Gruber was right. Stupid people supported 0bamaCare.”

Does that mean FReepers should be members of MENSA?


13 posted on 12/08/2014 5:41:37 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

We’re smarter than that! ;^)


14 posted on 12/08/2014 5:46:48 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Morgana

Wait one minute. Are they saying that increasing the demand and reducing the supply leads to shortages? Who would have guessed?


15 posted on 12/08/2014 5:53:24 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“My doctor’s office is running like a high speed assembly line...”

Same thing here. The clinic & the hospital, as well.


16 posted on 12/08/2014 6:26:30 PM PST by panaxanax
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To: samtheman
It's only doctors who are expected to work for free.

Why? Because health care is currently perceived as the thing needed most.

It's a fallacy of course. At a different time and circumstance they would be calling for mortgage brokers to work for free because people need houses the most. Or clothing manufacturers to work for free because clothing is in short supply, etc. It's all the mood of the moment.

17 posted on 12/08/2014 6:34:38 PM PST by what's up
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To: panaxanax
Last time there were about 30 in the waiting room at 9AM to see one doctor. You are expected to wait, your appoint time be damned. I am very careful to avoid exposure to strangers, I just can't risk catching a respiratory bug. If I don't go I can't get my prescriptions refilled. I don't know which poses the greatest risk.
18 posted on 12/08/2014 7:43:40 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Morgana

I personally know six doctors who have “retired” since Obamacare started. There are more that I personally know, who leaning towards leaving medicine. This is a tragedy for our American people.

Remember all those town hall meetings where citizens showed up by the hundreds to denounce Obamacare to their elected representatives?

Liberals and Rinos were soooooo snide and snarky about the “Tea Party extremists” who they said were threatening representatives. They called us terrorists.

I’m trying not to hate liberals right now. I don’t want their sin and darkness in my heart. They slime everything they touch.


19 posted on 12/08/2014 7:46:11 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Morgana

The Central Planners always know what’s best for us (at least they think they know).


20 posted on 12/08/2014 7:53:29 PM PST by windsorknot
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