a local friend is elderly and frail. he has 9 doctors (doesn’t need to see them all every day, of course, but he has a doctor for each item that ails him... specialization is how medicine works these days)
anyway,
so far none of his doctors has said he’s willing to sign up to accept Obamacare patients.
none.
Both of the doctors I see have expressed the idea that they may retire rather than deal with Obamacare. Both are about the same age as me and we have grown older together, but they still have a good 10 to fifteen years left in them. It is a shame that our fascist government would encourage them to leave their practices.
A death panel in effect if not in name.
I pray for your friend. And for the rest of us who will be in his shoes one day. The deeper this Obamacare parasite sinks its tentacles into our health care system, the more my planning for “old age” abates. There is really no point for some of us if this monstrosity isn’t annihilated.
You stated that the patient is elderly. If he has Medicare, will his doctors take it?
(I know that some Medicare reimbursements are being cut as part of this Obamacare package.)