Posted on 11/14/2015 4:59:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mountains of Obamacare-related paperwork and the threats of severe fines for the slightest errors are forcing many doctors to retire and others to shut down their practices and work under the protection of hospitals, and all of it spells bad news for patients.
Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner says the exodus is alarming, as evidenced by a Physicians Foundation report showing the number of doctors who say they run an independent practice has dropped from 62 percent in 2008 to 35 percent in 2014. The survey of 20,000 physicians also shows only 17 percent in solo practice. Eighty-one percent of doctors are at full capacity or even overextended. Forty-six percent grade Obamacare as a D or an F. Just 25 percent give the law an A or a B.
For those greatly frustrated by the system, Turner said the government is making their lives miserable.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Just as we predicted.
It’s exactly what they wanted, but it’s about control more than anything else.
Stampede Docs out of private practice and into working for hospitals or other big healthco orgs. Which dictate treatment options, acting as agents for the Federal government.
Classic fascist economics: the state exercises control while the means of delivery is ostensibly private.
Who could have seen this coming?
Oh, wait, I and many other FReepers said this would happen before 0bamaCare was even voted on.
My Doctor says that she now spends twice as much time with paper work than with her patients.
Good to know.
I don’t have health insurance. I finally went to an urgent care and am Having to pay. So far I’m ahead, if I have to have something really eXpensive I could have had insurance if it wasn’t for obzmacare
I posted about that before it was law too. No one wants to go to four years of college, four years of med school, a year’s internship and a year’s residency to be clerks.
Nor do doctors want to hire another full time employee to handle paperwork.
Hmm, go all Roy Rogers on ‘em.
Maybe this is a good thread to share our family’s solution to opt out of insurance altogether and join an independent liberty-based health share instead.
We were scared but we had to do something. We had one of those great plans that Obama told us we could keep. Well, uhhhh, no, uhhhhh, we couldn’t because it went up to $2500 a month with less and and less stuff covered. In 2014 I had brain surgery, and even with that in there, I realized that if we had just cash paid for all our Med expenses the whole year, we would have come out ahead.
So we joined Liberty Healthshare, where all your monthly payments go to helping other people pay their bills. Instead of $2500 a month for the 6 of us we now pay $500 a month. We can see any licensed doctor or medical professional (sadly except mental health which I am upset about*) we want, anywhere. Some will call Liberty and get paid directly from them, but mostly, honestly, we have to front the payment. Liberty pays us back in full. There is for us a $1500 a year “deductible,” which once we met (my son broke his nose early in the year), we didn’t have to worry about paying any more.
They want you to be healthy and self-sufficient, basically a constitution loving person. But you don’t have to be Christian or even specially conservative.
Check it out, we did and I am very glad. I just looked at Kaiser just to see our other options, and monthly we would have to pay $1500. Um, no,
http://www.libertyhealthshare.org
* I personally don’t feel the zero mental health coverage is fair for children. Nearly every brain problem children have is biological, structural, genetic. We could use a little help seeking professionals for one son. But I understand they don’t want to cover bored adults lying on couches discussing their childhoods and how to find a boyfriend.
“animal†antibiotics’
fish and birdy antibiotics:
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My doc sold his practice to a chain and the place changed overnight, it went from how are you to fill out this paperwork and have a seat. Same paperwork each time and I had been going there for 8 years and they had it all on file.
Another doctor that I went to told she was leaving because of the bullsh*t and I asked if I could go with her. She said yes if I would stop chewing out the help over the paperwork.
She is a great doctor, never prescribes meds to me until we have tried several natural supplements and vitamins. A lot of the time they worked for me. She hates Zerocare too.
How the hell did THIS happen?
Doncha know, that doctors, once the profit motive is taken away, will then continue to practice medicine because, well, they just HAVE to serve these impulses.
Yeah, right.
I forgot to tell you that my brother’s doctor retired because of Zerocare. Aint this hopey-changy stuff just great?
They work great. They are the same exact pills. I keep them in the freezer.
And the bigger problem with Medi-Cal is that the legislature is poised to put illegals on it. Fully 50% of the 2.3 million (the state’s number) illegals are below the earnings level where they can get on Medi-Cal. I just wished that the RATs here would pull out all the stops and bankrupt the state immediately. Then, maybe out of the ashes, we could rebuild California to be the state in which I grew up 60 years ago.
See, it begins with the [U.S.] doctors.
Jeremiah 31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
They that are whole have no need of the physician...
There a doctor in Maine who did just that. It was in the news about a year or two ago. I wonder how he's doing today.
My doctor closed shop and moved to Costa Rica with several of his peers.
Nor do doctors want to hire another full time employee to handle paperwork.”
It’s not only that they don’t want to but they can’t afford to plus the software they have to buy now is expensive. Cost of training employees to use the new ICD-10 codes which they had to use beginning last month were just ridiculous plus the training really eats into previously productive time. Add to that another telephone and telephone line, another computer, more office supplies, etc. Plus their liability insurance cost just keeps climbing as well as their lease expense. Couple of my M.D. clients are now relying on savings to keep the doors open because they can’t work enough hours to cover all the expenses.
None of my doctors are happy. Every single one has mentioned that they are considering leaving their practices. Every single one has cited the changes that have come with Obamacare. They have all said that the fun is gone from their jobs.
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