[rovenstinez]

It would be great of physicians revolted, and wanted gold or silver and payment at time of treatment. Getting the paper work out of services physicians provide for fees and charges is paramount.

[the_Watchman]

“I cannot accept a plan [in which] potentially commercial-type reimbursement rates were now going to be reimbursed at Medicare rates,” “I cannot accept a plan [in which] potentially commercial-type reimbursement rates were now going to be reimbursed at Medicare rates,”

The elephant in the closet is that Medicare was not paying its own way. It had shifted costs of Medicare recipients onto the general populace. Thus, our insurance rates had been rising to make up for Medicare payment shortfalls.

[Rhinoman]

I wrote a letter to the editor a couple of years ago saying that this would happen. Why should a doctor stay in business if they loose money on every patient? The next move from the government is to force them to accept obamacare patients and the response is going to be a further loss of doctors. Eventually they’ll revert back to supply and demand pricing. With fewer doctors and more patients the cost of medical care will be much higher than it was before the “solution” was implemented.

[Qiviut]

.... and then there’s THIS coming down the pike (pay more get less & maybe a bill from the IRS!):

If You Like Your Obamacare Plan, It’ll Cost You
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/if-you-like-your-obamacare-plan-it-ll-cost-you-20140805

Consumers who auto-renew their policies will get the same dollar value of subsidies they got last year—even though changes in the marketplace all but guarantee that will no longer be the right subsidy amount for millions of people.

“That’s the totally crazy part,” Pearson said. “They’re basically going to send them what they know to be the wrong subsidy.”

The IRS will eventually figure out how much financial assistance you should have received, and will reconcile the difference on your taxes. If you should have gotten a bigger subsidy, the government will issue you a tax credit. If your subsidy was too big, which would be the case if you keep your plan and lower-cost options come to the market, you’ll owe the IRS money.

Milliman has this example: Your plan doesn’t change its premiums at all, and your income isn’t changing. You auto-renew and keep receiving the same subsidy. But because of changes in the benchmark plan, you shouldn’t actually be receiving the same subsidy. Although it seems to you like nothing changed—not your premium, not your income—you’ll owe the IRS between $300 and $2,500 when you pay your taxes, because your subsidy should have been smaller. Unless and until HealthCare.gov is able to do this math automatically, it’s up to you to figure that out.

[Grams A]

On the other side of the coin, United Healthcare offers Medicaid coverage for mental health benefits through United Behavioral Health. Providers are paid about 20% more when they see Medicaid covered patients than they receive when seeing patients who are covered under group insurance plans.

Medicaid beneficiaries pay ZERO for their coverage including no co-pays or deductibles. Patients who have group insurance plans pay a substantial premium, large deductible and co-pays.

[tpmintx]

Gunpoint. Make doctors see patients under pain of arrest or worse. Prevent doctors from retiring. Prevent doctors from leaving the country.

I wish I could put up the </sarc> tag, but I see this in our future...

[MrEdd]

Begin?
Many never did.

[Phillyred]

I have a family member who is on this and has a doctor fighting tooth and nail full time to get the Obamacare insurer to pay for a prescription that could end up costing hundreds of dollars now.

[Baynative]

I wonder how long it will be until Obama writes an executive order outlawing cash only medical services, or private “health” clubs.

[gattaca]

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[RipSawyer]

It is astounding that doctors now cannot afford to accept a patient for an office visit for an $80. fee. I could walk into a doctor’s office fifty years ago unannounced and see the doctor within an hour and pay him with a single $5. bill. A hundred years ago $80. for a week would have made most doctors very happy.

[Organic Panic]

You spoiled rich doctors shut up and take your Obamacare. It’s not fair you’re a wealthy millionaire 1%er driving around in Mercedes and flying in your corporate jets. You OWE it to work for free and write off your 12 years of education to pay for your greed.

-Liberals

[sergeantdave]

Private for-profit clinics are popping up where I live. You can see a doc for $60 cash. More expensive clinics are charging $80-$127 per visit. The market appears to be sorting out the problem here.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Doctors Begin To Refuse Obamacare Patients [Duh!]

I was having a helluva time getting an appointment with my eye doctor until I said "I don't have 0bamacare", then it was smooth sailing.

[Peet]

Never saw *that* coming. /sarc

[Tennessee Nana]

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

[Rome2000]

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.

[trisham]

"Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes,
they just don't know where to look."

~Ronald Reagan

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