Posted on 01/10/2014 11:34:48 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I empathize with your friend.
I lived my first 40 years in south Florida and have had 4 skin cancers.
There is an acute shortage of dermatologists in many parts of the country.
Most medical specialists depend on federal funds for their advanced training after Medical School.
Essentially, there is an artificial quota imposed on how many dermatologists are trained each year.
On top of that, unless you raise hell like your friend did, they make you get screened by a physicians assistant before they will give you an appointment with a dermatologist, even if you have a history of skin cancer.
Healthy young people will simply not enroll, driving premiums even higher.
Obama is patterning himself after Roosevelt...even the rhetoric is the same.
Roosevelt wanted as many on the dole as possible to ensure votes...that’s why he stretched the depression out purposely. Obama is going for the same thing.
Keep for later use!
Be careful how you cry chicken little.
You are sounding remarkably like any "progressive" (read communist) who insists that the only solution to the failure of government is more government!
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Let it fail, repeal it in toto and the free market will rebound so fast it will make your head spin!
That's horseshit, my friend.
If we willfully destroy the health insurance industry, only the government will be there to pick up the pieces.
Our objective should be the survival of the industry and the full withdrawal of the government.
bfl
we have to somehow get ourselves exempt....that or get off the grid if we can and have little income...
or move...or die I guess...
no one speaks for the working/middle class....we have no representation at all....
the rats treat the assembly line unionists like gods and they better not think others are going to take the fall....
I guess if we're fool enough to do it....
however now, they'll be in the "system" and their free for all ER visits demanding drugs will be carefully recorded....
they think they have it better now, but now, they'll have to go to a very limited number of drs, perhaps across town, and be limited in the kinds of drugs they'll be prescribed, and the number of ct scans etc....
however now, they'll be in the "system" and their free for all ER visits demanding drugs will be carefully recorded....
they think they have it better now, but now, they'll have to go to a very limited number of drs, perhaps across town, and be limited in the kinds of drugs they'll be prescribed, and the number of ct scans etc....
Several years ago, Oregon expanded its Medicaid services to a system very much like ObamaCare.
Oregon claimed, just like ObamaCare has claimed, that demand for Emergency Room services would go down dramatically when everyone had insurance.
What happened?
New people who were enrolled in Medicaid INCREASED their E.R. visits by 40%!
It’s a little easier than it was in the Ceausescu days. In order to monitor everyone’s conversations they had to install “improved” telephones in each home. Now the NSA handles that centrally.
No okie, its not horse manure.
It is exactly as stated.
YOU go ahead and defend piling on even more government and along the way defend obamacare.
The heath insurance industry is already gone- obamacare isn’t insurance at all.
I will simply sit here and laugh at your ignorance
Z, in our own state (I believe you are in Washington also; correct me if wrong), that really didn’t happen in general when Medicaid rolls increased in 2008-2009. However, a small number of individuals were notorious at racking up excessive numbers of ER visits — some practically every day. The state implemented a plan to limit non-emergency ER visits to 3/year. But this was thrown out by a court I believe and the limit policy was dropped subsequently. The state now tries to vector those patients to urgent care clinics and/or mental health, whatever is appropriate.
My understanding of Medicaid here, before ObamaCare, was that only children, pregnant women, SSI Disability, and people waiting for a Disability decision were eligible.
In other words, no able bodied adults qualified for Washington state Medicaid, regardless of income.
Under ObamaCare, if I'm correct, all adults and families who earn less than 130% of the poverty rate (so, below $15,000 for a single adult) qualify for Medicaid.
For several years before 2014, Oregon's Medicaid was income based, too.
It was those people, the “new” people in Oregon on Medicaid, who dramatically increased their ER visits.
Same as Oregon, a few years ago Washington dropped the asset test for healthy adult Medicaid qualification and raised the income limit. How do I know? They sent us a letter saying we were being evaluated for it and had to do nothing but wait for a decision. There was nothing whatsoever we had done to request that. We didn’t qualify, because the money I have to withdraw from the IRA for living expenses was in excess of the limit for our family size. But they tried!
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