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Posted on 08/05/2014 10:55:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
FOXNEWS has a program about ObamaCare coming up sometime this week...
in their ad a member of the New Hampshire Legislature is complaining that she and her female partner don’t need birth control and shouldn’t have to pay for it...
LOL
All my providers delegate work same as always, no change.
Tying “health care” to employment was a sad artifact of union settlements made during WW2.
Anything that separates the payer from the user will increase demand and prices.
Doctors pass along a huge lawyer tax.
The marxist degenerate DEMONCRAT lawyers didn’t put a single word about Tort Reform into the OBAMACARE Dictate.
LAWYERS HAVE A LICENSE TO STEAL!
LAWYERS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN MUSLIMS AND MUST BE DEALT WITH.
Pass it on.
“You want to help people, don’t you?”
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The next time a liberal tries that on me I think I am going to reply, “I think helping people is wonderful, so what do you want to do for me?” In my experience they always want to be on the receiving end of the largesse. Any giving most of them do is very, very minimal at best.
I have a fair idea of where the cost comes from but I think it is still astounding that we have reached a point where eighty dollars for an office visit is not worth the doctor’s trouble. That is sixteen times what I used to pay in the sixties and back then no one ever said it wasn’t enough. I recall having a tooth pulled in 1970 and paying twelve dollars which was far too much according to one of my coworkers, he said he could have sent me to a dentist who would do it for eight. Of course at the time I was driving a 1968 model luxury automobile that cost me about $3500. new. I was earning around $150. a week and had plenty of money, living a single man lifestyle you could not live on $1500 a week now and maybe not on $2000 a week.
They are on borrowed time.
You’re imagining things or gullible.
My knowledge is based on several small groups of physicians who are struggling with the new medicare system. They are not having an easy time. About 25% of the Drs here in sw Fl have left their practices. Many are struggling with gov requirements that reduce their ability to see patients and are receiving lower payments. They are clear that the fed plan is to force them into low paying salaried positions in gov groups.
My knowledge is based on several small groups of physicians who are struggling with the new medicare system. They are not having an easy time. About 25% of the Drs here in sw Fl have left their practices. Many are struggling with gov requirements that reduce their ability to see patients and are receiving lower payments. They are clear that the fed plan is to force them into low paying salaried positions in gov groups.
No argument with any of that. But the contention in your earlier comment was not correct.
“If you think of all the staff the doctor must pay, nurses, clerks, house maintenance and the like, plus the cost of malpractice insurance, equipment and supplies, building and office space lease or mortgage, and its insurance, the costs become more clear................”
Did they practice in the street in the 50s ?
Government contractor insurance, pension retirement money piped into Government contractor insurance right into the Government Contractor Stock Market.
My c\ontention was not a contention. It was a fact reported to me by my physician.
“Tying “health care” to employment was a sad artifact of union settlements made during WW2.”
Only after the federal government decreed a wage cap.
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