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Posted on 11/24/2012 8:49:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Does anyone in FReerland [sic] know whether or not doctors are mandated to ask patients about their ownership of firearms?
At the VA they ask if you have had and HIV test, and if you own firearms.
My answer is no.
5.56mm
Sounds like you’re looking forward to it.
My kids’ pediatrician has been asking about guns in the house for Years now.
Bump
“... die during your exam how does he code it?”
The same way...as the freebie annual exam. You read the article...the doctor can’t even call 911 to get you transported to the hospital emergency room.
The body has to be wheeled back out to the doc’s waiting room, and then has to wait for the next available “walk-in” appointment that afternoon.
“Mr. Smith? The doctor will see you now.”
“Mr.Smith? Mr. Smith?”
“Sounds like you’re looking forward to it.”
Maybe that’s how it’s coming through. I am not looking forward to it. I’m amazed that people did not stop this thing. It’s so obvious that 2,000 pages of who knows what is something no doctor will sign up for.
What is the sense of a health care plan which has no providers? And we have to pay into it?
They [Doctors] have only themselves to blame.
I believe you have a misguided opinion of your doctor's likely love for Obamacare or his/her ability to have overturned it.
Since I presume you're a conservative voter and conservative voters failed to prevent the reelection of Obama, should I charge you with selling your soul and having only yourself to blame?
My orthos office has been doing this for years. I can only discuss one thing per visit. Last time I went because my bursa had popped out of my elbow. The day of my visit my back was having horrible spasms also, but I was not allowed to talk about it because I was there for my elbow.
Kind of weird having a doctor ignore a patient’s obvious pain.
I never go to my Internist for a yearly checkup. I just wait for a lot of things to build up and go. She usually ends up sending me somewhere else anyway.
Not at all.
BTW, when is the AMA going to come out against abortion and help out?
Obama lied - healthcare died. And, I have a real bitter place in my heart for Judge Roberts. He’ll never have to use this boondoggle of a bill. Like all those in federal government, they exempted themselves while giving us regular Americans affordable healthcare.
Sorry, I’m still having issues with Roberts and the lies from the Democrats that people swallowed, hook, line and sinker. And, yes, I blame Romney for wearing mittens during the general election. He wanted to play nice guy and like most pubies, they fail to recognize the dirty tactics the opposition uses. They think people will not like them, oh waaaaaaaaaaaa.
Likeablity is so overrated. I’m serious about that.
The problem this doctor mentions about how people come in for a physical and then ask about other stuff, makes me question if this was written by a doctor.
I do customer service at a Blue Cross Blue Shield office. In cases like this, most doctors would send in a claim and on the first few lines of service they would list all the preventative services the patient received. The last line of service would be for an office visit. All the preventative services bill out at the covered at 100% rate and thoffice visit is processed according to the terms of the contract.
And I get to be the person who explains it to the irate caller.
This is true and the author should have looked at the bigger picture. Obamacare is not the end game, it's just the means to put private insurance companies out of business and implement single payer. Once single payer is in place, that single payer (the federal bureaucracy) will control all medical care and ultimately run the hospitals. The goal is to socialize a large sector in America's economy as part of the overall goal to socialize the bulk of the economy. There will still be some private enterprise but not in medicine.
I think it was the CDC (Center For Disease Control) who , a few years ago, spent loads of taxpayers money on an anti-gun campaign.
I will likely lie and say no. As far as I know, it is not ‘yet’ against the law to lie to a doctor. I am an honest law abiding citizen, but I refuse to play their game. My gun ownership is none of their business.
Why not just set up a grab bag in the doctor’s lobby to see what you can be treated for today? ;-)
Perhaps he will have two or more taxis meters to start a new appointment every time you change the subject. ;-)
While I'd like to think that at least some of that roomful of Rats did not chalk that up as a primary goal, it is an inevitable consequence of placing a sixth of the nation's economy under a bureaucracy which can never answer needs even close to as well as a market can. I bet Soviet patients often had it easier.
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