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This past spring the large clinic where my doctor was (had him for 16 yrs), filed for bankruptcy and the over 50 doctors had to leave. That big clinic had been in business for 50 years. My doctor went to a building close to that one and I thought it would be okay. Then, I got a letter from his office that he was now with a concierge medical group and to see him I had to give that group $1,650 just to go in his office. That was a yearly charge. My doctor had dumped me and the rest of his patients.

So, I had no doctor that very day. Called a friend, got the name of her doctor, called that office, and everything went fine until she asked me about insurance. Said I had Medicare and a supplement - she said they didn't take Medicare. I still had no doctor.

Called a doctor friend and he gave me the name of a doctor he would go to. Called that office, and thank God, they took Medicare. I finally had a doctor and went to him and he had also been with the clinic that closed and was able to call up my records on his computer. I am happy with this doctor and we did blood tests, etc., to see where I was with my blood numbers which needed to be done. My medicines were all switched to his name so I could refill medicines. He and I got it done.

Several weeks went by, AND THEN I GOT ANOTHER LETTER:
The doctor that dumped me sent a letter to his old patients saying he missed his relationship with his old patients and had left the concierge group and we could have an appointment any time and he was sorry if this had caused us any inconvenience. CAUSED ME INCONVENIENCE?!

Evidently, his old patients, including me, didn't pay the $1,650 and he didn't have any patients or enough of them to stay with that fancy group.

That's like your boy friend dumping you for another girl, then coming back and saying he likes you better.

I did not go back to him after the mega mess he put me through. I'm afraid he would do that again and he can go pound sand.

All of the socialist cost-shifing compounded by Obamacare is driving MDs out of business, especially outside hospital-linked groups. They won't be able to make it work. That is my opinion as a financial analyst for 25 years.

Five years ago, just before I moved from Plano TX to Fort Myers FL, my family practice MD dumped me and my wife from his practice because we were on Medicare, so this has been going on for some time. We had been with him for eight years! Then when we got to Fort Myers, our first MD said we might be the last ones into his practice with Medicare.