Down the road....maybe quite a ways....All doctors will be Federal Employees...with government guide lines...aka...death panels.
well... the majority of them voted for it, NOW EAT IT!!!Medicaid was a perversion from the very start, because it tried to institutionalize and mandate charity by the national government (no longer call it federal, because it isn’t).
And, as H.L. Mencken observed, “When man ‘A’ takes from man ‘B’ to reward man ‘C’, then man ‘A’ is a S.O.B.”
In any even, the fastest way to restore order to both Medicaid and Medicare is to make the money for both as bloc grants to the states, for them to decide how to use. And once that years’ bloc grant is exhausted, any additional money must come from the state, if it so chooses.
As things are now, costs will continue to rise, and benefits to shrink, until the programs would consume our entire budget and do nothing at all.
From the article: “The reimbursement is to the point where we can’t take care of these patients. They’re going to lose access,” said Dee, president of MidState Radiology Associates in Meriden.
Oh, that will only be a temporary hiatus on taking new Medicaid patients. Not too long from now, Zero and 0bamunists will simply decree that doctors will be prohibited from denying treatment, and all will be fine in the Progressive Utopia. You’ll be able to go to any doctor you choose.
Still mulling whether this needs a sarc tag...