Posted on 07/05/2014 9:04:24 AM PDT by xzins
Betsy McCaughey was on Fox & Friends this morning, talking about 1,200 new pages of regulations for health care. Huge new reporting requirements for doctors treating medicare payments, including requirements that they discuss issues like obesity, even if it isn’t the reason for the doctor visit. And if the doctor doesn’t fulfill the new requirements, he can be fined.
How many doctors are going to start dumping their medicare patients now?
Maybe that will finally start waking people up. Nothing else has worked.
Well, he can examine his mental inability to apply common sense. But where’s the scrip for that?
I don’t know how you can keep serving people you don’t make money on. There was something a few years ago my doc did (ekg or something) that he says he now sends to the hospital. The insurance companies won’t reimburse him now except a few bucks, but the hospitals they will, so he says, “Why do it?” It’s a rational decision on his part.
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Nobody stopped this because our master’s masters wanted this. Your government never ever had our interest st heart, they have always worked for their contributors.
Tried going into the local “Walk -In” Clinic a few days ago to get a Tetanus shot. The 20 something behind the counter didn’t even know what a Tetanus shot was and said I had to make an appointment. In order to make an appointment she needed to know my “Soch”, for billing purposes, I had planned on paying cash but NO, they only bill. Got so mad I just left. The BS paperwork and attitude created by the Gov’s involvement is why our healthcare system is failing.
And if you can’t get an appointment to see a primary care physician, you can’t get a referral to a specialist.
If you go see a specialist w/o a referral from your PCP, your insurance doesn’t cover it.
So, it’s basically the same as before if you didn’t have insurance at all.
I believe that’s a a grossly inaccurate headline. It should be:
“Because of Obamacare’s Expanded Coverage, More Patients Going to the ER”
I predict by the next decade computers will diagnose more patients than real doctors and do a better job. If not, only the political class and elites will get any quality care.
Wonder what the temper tantrum will be then.
And on top of that rationing, how much you want to bet that a person’s politics will be a major deciding factor on whether they get the needed card or points or whatever they’ll have to show?
Card, points, something will determine. If they go after people with the IRS, then they’ll go after people with HHS.
“Six years is all it took.”
Obama and the Dems certainly accelerated the process, but this was happening before he ever showed up. The open border and H1-B fraud was going on for decades.
“I don’t know how you can keep serving people you don’t make money on.”
You don’t; the ERs close. Happened in southern CA, and is happening in my area (northeastern NJ); the illegals flood the emergency rooms, the state reimbursement doesn’t keep up, and the ER shuts down.
“There was something a few years ago my doc did (ekg or something) that he says he now sends to the hospital. The insurance companies won’t reimburse him now except a few bucks, but the hospitals they will, so he says, “Why do it?” It’s a rational decision on his part.”
My wife’s doctor sent her somewhere for a test that she’d had previously in his office; he said he could do it in his office if she was on welfare, but the insurance company wouldn’t pay for it otherwise.
We have started going to the Walgreens and CVS minute-clinics for things like Tetanus shots, flu shots, and other routine vaccinations instead of the doctor’s office or walk-in clinics. They can treat a lot of non-life threatening conditions now. Some keep a nurse practitioner and the pharmacists are trained to give shots. I got my flu shot at CVS year before last the he did a great job. The pharmacist gave a better shot than the nurse at my doctor’s office did this year.
our country and our culture....seriously wonder if I could live in Canada....could I get my 401k out?
I’m sure our hollywood stars will still get their breasts enlarged, their lips pumped, their hair restored, their noses done, and their eye lids lifted....we need to keep up the falsehoods as long as we can...
That's news to me that they "aren't working". Working for this class of drugs means stabilizing, or delaying worsening for a while, and only occasionally means improvement in function (my mother seems to be one of the lucky ones).
There are basically two types of drugs in this category, the Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and the NMDA blockers.
Gotta fund cures for scabies, lice and the new strains of TB.
The pharmaceutical companies invest money where they see profit potential (and technical promise), not where some politician thinks the money should go.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/health/alzheimer-s-drugs-not-working-according-ruvo-center-study
This might be from the story I heard on the news.
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