Posted on 10/04/2010 6:24:20 AM PDT by Zakeet
Last year, I ordered a CT scan of the chest on a 63-year-old patient whose chest X-ray had revealed a lung nodule. I had no problem getting the test approved by his private insurance company. The radiologist suggested that I repeat the CT scan this year to make sure the nodule hasn’t turned into cancer.
But this year, the same insurance company is denying the test, having clamped down on several elective services while also raising its premiums. This company now has to cover children with pre-existing conditions and can place no lifetime limits on care. It is struggling to preserve its profits as Obamacare kicks in — profits that, to begin with, are only approximately 4 percent of its total revenue.
Next year, my patient will have Medicare. He can’t afford a secondary insurance plan (Medicare Part B covers only 80 percent of most charges), and he doesn’t qualify for Medicaid as his secondary, so he was hoping to join a Medicare Advantage plan — a private insurance plan that seniors can choose to receive, partly at government expense, instead of Medicare. But in 2011, Medicare Advantage is due to be cut $140 billion by the new law, and it is doubtful that the plan he wants will still be available. Harvard Pilgrim, the second-largest insurer in Massachusetts, has just dropped 22,000 patients from its Medicare Advantage plan in anticipation of these cuts. Soon seniors everywhere will have the same problem. In fact, the Medicare actuary estimates that 7 million out of the 11 million people with Medicare Advantage will be set adrift over the next seven years.
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The president can keep telling Americans that their health care won’t change. But for my patients, it already has.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
He wrecked healthcare for 85% of the nation to serve 15% of the nation.
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.
I know he can count....but....
Too bad he’s a nihilist and a socialist.
It looks like the dems Obamacare plan was actually “die soon”
BTTT
I’d send this to a liberal I know, but she already told me not to bother sending her anything that disagrees with her point of view. She loves obamacare.
There will be millions of stories like this. I am bracing myself for how much my health plan will rise. I’m thinking 35%, $481 > $650.
First quarter earnings season next year healthcare company profits will absolutely explode. Those are quite possibly incredible stock plays...UNH & CAH, plenty of others.
Probably April next year when Q1 healthcare earnings come out, the remaining Dems will rail endlessly about healthcare corporate profits and blame the Republicans for forcing them to pass defective healthcare legislation that benefitted their special interests so egregiously.
This flaming stupidity has to end.
Send it to her anyway.
Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke; administrated by people who want to emulate the worst aspects of socialized medicine programs in other countries (e.g. rationing and death panels)
What the hell could possibly go wrong?
He wrecked healthcare for 85% of the nation
to CONTROL 100% of the nation.
Excellent!!!
Email, print, hand out, not all are on line. First 5 are the best.
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
Health law’s heavy impact by Paul Guppy
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/28/health-laws-heavy-impact/
Monthly premiums to rise for 7 of top 10 Medicare prescription plans in 2011
http://www.startribune.com/business/103642009.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr
Harvard Pilgrim cancels Medicare Advantage plan
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/09/28/harvard_pilgrim_
Seniors’ coverage options dwindle as Medicare Advantage programs close shop
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-advantage_22bus.ART.State.Edition1.3c912a9.html
ObamaCare has just made me Sicker!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bamcare_has_just_made_me_icker_c1dBRZ6M3yuH27rAVnLsvN
In the notice, EmblemHealth told Gowland, who is healthy, “The proposed rate increase includes two components: a basic increase on your type plan and an increase due to the cost of enhanced benefits required by the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
Mayo clinic stops taking Medicare patients
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517004
Survey in New England Journal of Medicine 46% of US Doctors Will Quit Obamacare Passes http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2798380/shocking_survey_in_new_england_journal.html?cat=75
Principal To Cut Jobs, End Med Insurance Business
http://www.kcci.com/money/25224059/detail.html
Obama: We knew health costs would go up
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/118079-obama-we-knew-health-costs-would-go-up
I left my firm to establish a solo practise a little more than two and one-half years ago. I have been Cobraing ever since. My Cobra expires on April 30, so I contacted a broker to identify a new carrier to cover me and my two daughters effective January 1. I was told by the broker that, because of Obamacare, except for two very expensive policies, all carriers have essentially stopped issuing new individual policies. He is hoping that they will start issuing decent policies within the next month or so. However, I have very mild, very treatable hypertension that might prove to be a problem. Repeal Obamacare. Repeal it now.
That, too, Mr.B! That, too.
God help us, we got to get this monster repealed.
We are tired of the Ivy League geniuses who game the system and have buried us under trillions of dollars of debt. Your social experiment on the sensible people of the nation is over.
Look out Zer0, the hope and change is a coming... and not from you.
To America;
Kick the bums out, repeal the empty suit's policies, cut taxes, cut entitlements, cut the red tape, cut the budget and close the border.
Behold the Hussein/Pelosi/Reid Holocaust designed to eliminate whomever Big Brother chooses. Welcome to 1933 Germany. Are you one of their targets?
I have a senior neighbor, about 77 and she is looking to get a job now, as she has fallen into the medicare "do-nut hole" and can't afford her medicines! PATHETIC, and it's just going to get even worse!!
If we don't stop this soon, it will be too late to fix it!!
I just did....:)
I sent this article to 10 people....an assortment of conservatives and liberals.
The liberal woman I sent it to actually watches Olbermann, but hates Fox News, probably because Olbermann told her to. She recently told me she loves algore.
You cannot talk to a brainwashed liberal, especially ones who are cheap in their own lives but votes for big spending democrats.
Tell her to apply for PACE.
Yeah, it ain’t even worth debating with these liberals (marxists)... save your energy for upholding the good in this country. Believe me I know... I use (save) my energy for town halls, Tea Parties, writing Congress, etc.
These people will NEVER budge... they are hard core commies. It is like debating Stalin and Chavez. Work on the people that are on the fence, etc.
OMG, That’s a keeper! That beautifully sums up Obama care.
It is a symbol of Government running roughshod over the will of the people.
What a vile disgusting bill the Health Care scam is!
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