46 percent of doctors give Obamacare a 'D' or 'F'

Washington Examiner ^ | September 17, 2014 | Philip Klein

[right-wing agnostic]

Forty-six percent of doctors give President Obama's healthcare law a "D" or an "F," according to a new survey from the Physicians Foundation. In contrast, just 25 percent of those surveyed gave the law an "A" or a "B."

The findings come from a survey that was emailed to "virtually every physician in the United States with an email address on record with the American Medical Association" this March through June as the law's major provisions were taking effect, and received more than 20,000 responses from doctors.

In their comments that were included (but kept anonymous) in the report, a number of doctors complained about the vast amount of bureaucracy that has been added to the medical profession.

"Get government OUT of healthcare," one doctor wrote.

Sign Up for the Politics Today newsletter! Another wrote, "Repeal Obamacare."

Another comment read, "I'm a Canadian physician practicing in the United States. The politicians and policy makers need to understand that government involvement in healthcare never works."

One argued that "health reform would be better served by removing many thousands of pages of laws and bureaucrats rather than adding many thousands of pages of laws and bureaucrats."

Several doctors said they were planning to leave the profession, though it wasn't clear that it was necessarily due to the law.

[right-wing agnostic]

I'm surprised that how low this number is. Just, wait, it'll undoubtedly get A HELL OF A LOT WORSE for both Americans seek medical care and physicians treating them. That is, if they can even find a doctor to treat them in coming years./rwa

[jsanders2001]

I don’t know any doctors that are taking Obamacare anymore. It’s only 3 of them but all have refused treating anyone on the program for good reason (o’care doesn’t pay their bills)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I was at my Doc’s new office Monday. He has three partners. I noticed he had added two new secretaries to deal with paperwork. He is not happy! All his nurses/assistants now have these carts they push around, with computers on them. He and his partners have had to make huge investments this year!

[dsrtsage]

I thought most of Obungholecare isn’t supposed to kick in until after elections

[Tired of Taxes]

PING... in case anyone on this list is interested.

[TomGuy]

My Internal Medicine Clinic lost one doctor last October due to the increasing regulations and paperwork. He became an ‘employee’ of an area hospital, so he now gets a paycheck and has a regular schedule. His workload at the clinic was assumed by the 2 other IM doctors.

The Clinic just recently lost another doctor who had only been with the Clinic about a year. I have not heard why he left. His workload is being assumed by an APRN (Advanced Practical Registered Nurse).

That leaves only one doctor.

I am hoping he doesn’t decide to close the clinic. He is my Primary Care Physician.

[Mears]

“One argued that “health reform would be better served by removing many thousands of pages of laws and bureaucrats rather than adding many thousands of pages of laws and bureaucrats.” “

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This probably sums it up quite well.

I’m 82 years old and remember just going to the doctor’s daily visiting hours-—no appointment needed. Paid the $5.00 or $10.00 and got what I needed.

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[al_c]

I’m not surprised by the low number at all. I got to sit in on a few meetings between the board of directors and doctors when I was working at a health care insurance giant. No one wanted this debacle passed. They hated everything about it.

[CincyRichieRich]

The others are too scared to answer and be identified by the regime.

[Amendment10]

And regardless what activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare Democratcare, doctors should also be giving Democratcare a 'U' for unconstitutional.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

[Gay State Conservative]

My cardiologist,a senior faculty member at Harvard Medical School,recently told me that he's winding down his practice so he can retire.He told me that he's retiring five years earlier than he had planned because,particularly after having practiced government medicine in the Navy just after graduation from medical school,he refuses to put up with the new regulations that have recently been enacted and the ones that are still in the pipeline.He also told me that more than a few of his medical colleagues are contemplating the same move.

[Kirkwood]

Paperwork?

[trisham]

Our doctor has been talking about retiring.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Paperwork?”

No such thing anymore. I’m not sure what they do. Probably fill out stuff for the govt. on computers.

[Tired of Taxes]

Those were the days, Mears. :-) I remember going to the doctor before the HMO’s and all the paperwork took over.