Stewart Varney reported on Fox & Friends this morning:
In 6 years [2020] it is projected we will have a shortage of 90,000 doctor.
You do not (will not) know who your doctor will be or what hospital you can go to when you sign up.
“You do not (will not) know who your doctor will be or what hospital you can go to when you sign up.”
I read recently that in New York, only 25% of doctors where planning on taking Obamacare. Many of those were taking it because they had existing contracts that required them to. When those contracts run out the percentage will doubtless drop. Having a plastic card and paying lots of money for coverage does not guarantee anybody will accept that card.
In addition, I have recently learned that if you go outside the system and pay cash for treatment you can be denied all coverage inside the system. (I think this is for Medicaid and Medicare.) This is apparently common in the UK, where if you have cancer it may be untreatable by the time you get your second doctor visit which is generally over a year from your first.
The doctor-patient relationship has been under attack for a long while now. The plan all along was to diminish the central role of the individual physician and make physicians into ‘employees’ of a larger health care system - in which they could be better controlled.
It started with a simple change in language - calling physicians and everyone else involved in patient care at an individual level ‘providers’. Once that was in place, you can replace physicians with other types of ‘providers’ and go forward as though they are all interchangeable. In the minds of liberal bureaucrats this is a great way to mitigate any physician shortages, and it also takes control of the system away from physicians.
Then, they came up with legislation that made payment rates for tests and procedures done at private facilities lower than payment rates for exactly the same tests and procedures done at hospitals. By doing this they made it harder for private practices to remain financially solvent, and thus pushed physicians into selling their practices to large hospital corporations. This is happening everywhere right now, and it puts physicians under expanding hospital bureaucracies. By centralizing medical care into hospital systems like this, they made it easier to exert centralized control - ultimately at the federal level.
They also passed legislation restricting physician-owned and operated facilities (e.g. physician-owned hospitals), thus essentially saying that you can't be your own boss as a doctor.
The list goes on and on, but this has been happening for many years now. I've often wondered how some of this can even be Constitutional.
I could see in their "Utopian" healthcare system, they would direct doctors into "pools," grouped by specialty. They would tell us, "because of electronic medical records, it's unnecessary for you to have 'your own' doctor...it's an antiquated concept."
Already many Doctors are becoming Concierge Doctors, I look for the Government to put a stop to that soon, making it illegal to practice medicine unless you practice it for the government.