Why Your Doctor Secretly Hates Obamacare

Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2012 | Katie Kieffer

[oh8eleven]

Secretly Hates Obamacare
My son has two brothers-in-law, both doctors and both Conservative.
One of them spent a year "doctoring" in Canada and said the H/C system was worse than even he expected.
Believe me, there are NO secrets about their feelings for anything to do with 0bama.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

y Your Doctor Secretly Hates Obamacare

No secret about it. My doctor will tell you flat out that when it goes fully into effect he is retiring. He is not selling the practice, he is closing it.

And so ends a practice that has been open for over 60 years.

[formosa]

I just got out of the hospital and received excellent care. My doctor had to call in 2 different specialists to work with her to diagnose and cure my problem. It was a lung infection. Under Obamacare I know that treatment would not have happened. It wouldn’t have been cost effective.

People will receive very basic care under doctors and nurses who no longer see patients as human beings but as numbers to be dealt with as cheaply as possible. It will not even be our doctors deciding how much care we need but government panels. It’s sad but true.

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[astounded]

My wife of more than 30 years is a general surgeon who has been in private practice since 1985. She typically works 12-14 hour days, with call every 5th weekend and rounds every third, plus “time-saving” electronic medical records (previously known as charts) to complete over each weekend. She is tired, and demoralized by Obamacare’s implications for her many Medicare patients who are very fearful they will lose her to Obamacare. And, guess what? They will lose her, and many, many physicians who are in their prime of experience.

We were outraged by Barack Obama talking two summers ago about greedy, overpaid doctors who amputate limbs and remove tonsils needlessly to make more money. Barack Obama and his minions know NOTHING about the sacrifice and hardships that are secondary to being a private practice physician in today’s regulated market.

I am angry - white hot angry - at what Obama has done to our country. Even more, I hold a raging, burning contempt for people who support Obama and his policies. I know it is anti-Christian, but I wish harm to those who would vote for him knowing what he has done to the USA.

[astounded]

“The best and the brightest (doctors) used to go into academic medicine.”....

And how do you know this sweeping “fact”? In my experience, and that of my general surgeon spouse, most of the top-tier academic physicians - at least in surgery and the “hand-on” specialties - spend more time on airplanes than in the OR. Too many of them can’t find their rear ends with both hands because they simply aren’t operating daily. Just an observation......

[dagogo redux]

It’s no secret between many of my patients and me. I choose the ones I talk to about it a bit carefully, but many of them bring it up from their side. Even libs offer unsolicited worries about where medicine’s going, how long I’ll stay in practice, what will become of them when I take down my shingle.

[FrankR]

From the morning e-mail, a statement supposedly attributed to Donald Trump:

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,

which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor,

but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it,

passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes,

with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,

for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect,

by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,

and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!


'What the hell could possibly go wrong?'

[Hildy]

Secretly??? Roflmao! I am friendsvwith all my doctors and everyone tells me their disgust every time I see them.

[Gator113]

“....what will become of them when I take down my shingle.”

I believe my primary doctor was asking himself the same question about all of his patients, perhaps causing him to remain in practice for a few additional years.

My doctor has been retired for about 8 months. He was my doctor for the last 40 years. He delivered both of our children and for the past 10 years, my health issues caused him to see me every 6 to 8 weeks, sometimes more often.

We became friends over the years and I will always miss him. I was fortunate, in that his son became my new doc, but it’s just not the same.

I am certain that many older folks, perhaps with medical issues far more serious than mine, will be devastated to find themselves locked in a cold heartless and unfamiliar doctor-patiant environment.

I suspect that ‘trust’ will be one of the first casualties of state run medical care. For me, trust is a very big part of the doctor-patiant relationship, greatly effecting the desired outcome, thus the patients health.

Thank you for all that you do....

Cheers....

[Gator113]

There you go again, Frank, painting the sky blue. ;>)

It’s going to get very ugly.

[FrankR]

Nahhh...I ran out of blue paint a long time ago...

[ErnBatavia]

As of today, I’m officially on Medicare (well, actually it was the first of the month), so it’s gonna be weird next time I go to a doc and present that and my Plan F Supplemental cards.