Posted on 11/03/2013 1:54:28 PM PST by markomalley
Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients:
FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.
She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations. The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.
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These people are dangerous.
Fascist wet dreams aside, it’s hard to force a bankrupt medical practice to stay in operation.
They should go for broke. Force doctors to see anyone and everyone without pay. Assign soldiers to each doctor and shoot if they slow down. Problem solved.
radical understatement.
these are people that think they’re ideas are so awesome, yet nobody wants to join them, so their solution is to force people to participate in their awesome idea.
they somehow manage to exempt themselves from their own awesome ideas, though. like they don’t have to do it because they thought it up.
So if I’m a doctor in Virginia, I’m looking for property in... Tennessee? North Carolina? Kentucky?
“Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients:”
Absolutely! We have had freedom and rights guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights for too damn long! It’s time to throw out those archaic documents and give in to the socialism that the demonrat rat party hungers for. Throw off your freedom and don the yoke of servitude to Father government, rejoice in having to never make a decision for yourself again, leave it all to the village idiots.
All their doctors will be in some other state.
Why don’t these physicians get together, buy a new or used cruise ship and station it XXX miles offshore and see patients there?
Maybe it would be best to keep our powder dry for awhile, let this communist concept gain more RAT acceptance on the national level in 2014, then come in with guns blazing to differentiate the two parties with an issue with real substance!
Would the low information voter understand the concept??
Why don’t they treat lawyers the same way they treat doctors? Oh, they ARE the lawyers.
“Kathleen Murphy, a NAZI who is running for the House of Delegates against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock, told a forum in Great Falls on Saturday that doctors should be forced to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients:”
There. Fixed it! /s;)
If you’re a small government, Conservative doctor, South Carolina will welcome you with open arms. C’mon down.
Yes. They will force md’s to accept these patients, or it is off to the re-education camp with them...
“So if I’m a doctor in Virginia, I’m looking for property in... Tennessee? North Carolina? Kentucky?”
Yes, just like the gun manufacturers, most all of the medical professionals are going to end up in blue states. Sorry RATS, slavery was ended by the Republicans after the Civil War!
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865.
Even if slavery were legal there is no practical way to do this. There is already a significant shortage of physicians, particularly in the primary care specialties. Wishing it away won't make it go away. There are things the libs can and should do, but they will take 20 years, and they haven't even discovered that this is a huge problem.
What can they do? Place bounties on the heads of retired physicians, and send posses to Florida to bring them back in chains, à la Dred Scott? Drag elderly demented physicians out of their nursing home beds and force them to treat patients?
Totalitarians like the democrats won’t accept anything less than absolute obedience to the state.
Hate to be a politician that votes for this and then need a doctor for an operation.
In process.
Upscale clinics just over the Mexican border. Same thing.
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