Posted on 10/20/2013 8:16:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tom Shaffrey is an old-fashioned family doctor, the kind who calls his patients by their first name and can tell the severity of their problem just by listening to them.
But he's worried that he and other small New Jersey primary-care physicians won't be able to keep practicing their brand of personal medicine because insurers are elbowing them out of business through narrow provider networks in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act.
No one knows for sure if narrow networks and the tiering system created by insurers to control costs is having an effect on the availability of doctors in Pennsylvania.
"We frankly haven't heard from" our members, said Brent Ennis, of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians.
"We have no way to know exactly how this is going to play out, but the indication is that our members will be dropped, will be excluded from seeing patients that they may have known for a majority of their lives," said Shaffrey, president of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. "I think it is going to have a tremendous impact."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
The design of ACA is to put these pratices out of business. It has been doing a good job of that for over a year.
The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex doesn't want a bigger pie with them have a portion of it. They just want the whole pie. They don't care if it gets smaller.
If the doc has any brains, he’d be planning his early retirement. He (and his kind) are goners. On the plus side, it is an opportunity for him to move out of LIB-haven NJ.
Me?
1. Solo Private Practice: specialty - psychiatry. Handwritten notes and prescriptions.
2. Endangered Species: increasingly toxic habitat; dwindling food supply; increase in numbers, ferocity and cunning of legal and regulatory predators.
Pretty soon doctors are going to have to unionize to
make a buck. The answer is always more communism with the
tards. Don’t feel sorry for the doctors nor the
insurance companies. They should have been fighting those
commie tort lawyers instead of caving in and paying out of
court settlements. What we really need is tort reform and
better trained doctors. When it all settles it all comes
down to bad doctors who should have never been allowed to
practice medicine in the first place. Those are the ones
who created the foothold for the tards to worm their way in.
Why don’t Indians (er, excuse me, Native Americans) open up clinics and hospitals on their lands? They could offer doctors the opportunity to practice medicine as they would like, without the burdens of state and federal mandates and insurance? Just a thought...
My small town doctor notified me a month ago that he was closing his doors effective January 1, 2014.
The AMA led the lobbying charge to get obamacare through. I can’t feel so sorry for doctors.
Only 15% of the AMA are practicing doctors, the rest are
researchers or administrators.
Two doctors known to me: one closes private practice and retires at early age. Second closes private practice and goes to work for a hospital. Both cite ACA as the reason.
He has expressed that Obamacare is going to make things worse to me in the past.
He was not the same doctor on Friday I've gone to in the past. He seemed like what people are like when they have given up. Hopefully he's still adjusting and in the process of acceptance.
I work for the same big hospital system also and I had gone straight from work for my appointment. It was strange seeing him with an ID badge just like mine (except for the name and title and picture).
You are from Texas and Texas has already done tort reform several years ago. The amount a person can get from suing doctors is now limited and if the “patient” loses the case, he/she must pay all court costs. That stopped frivolous cases.
When this tort reform happened, doctors began to flood to Texas and more people had to be hired in the state medical department to handle all the doctor requests to come to Texas. I know this for a fact as my best friend was on the state medical board at that time.
I believe Texas has more doctors per capita than any other state due to tort reform.
Ping to PA’s (and the US) downfall.
They have shamans. They got the herbs and stuff to heal things.
Thing is, a LOT of doctors do not, and have dropped out of, the AMA because of it’s increasingly left leaning worldview.
The AMA doesn’t speak for the majority of doctors. There are other societies and groups that doctors belong to.
Obama’s plan is to cover the medical school bills if you work a certain number of years where the regime wants you to.
Instead of acceptance I’d rather see my doctor with a spirit of rebelliousness against this bullsh1t.
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