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I Will Not Implement, Comply . . . (MD letter to Aetna)
Kris Held MD wordpress ^ | January 30, 2014 | Kris Held MD

Posted on 02/02/2014 2:48:14 AM PST by saywhatagain

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Picked this up over at twitchy.com. Read about this amazing lady. A breast cancer survivor and attacked by Media Matters when she speaks out.

I pray only more like her will stand up and take action

1 posted on 02/02/2014 2:48:15 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: saywhatagain

Aetna pretty much sux anyway...good letter!


2 posted on 02/02/2014 3:04:57 AM PST by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: saywhatagain

I sent this nice lady a short note of support..

I hope many others do the same...I’m sure she would appreciate the kind thoughts and prayers.


3 posted on 02/02/2014 3:08:54 AM PST by Bobalu (Happiness is a fast ISR)
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To: saywhatagain

Bravo Dr.Held. I can only imagine how you would have felt if you would have had a chance to become a fully functional, dues paying, high profile member of the SEIU. We haven’t seen anything yet.


4 posted on 02/02/2014 3:12:35 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Bobalu

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort. Wish more if not all Freepers do the same. She is so very deserving of our support for standing up and speaking out as she does.


5 posted on 02/02/2014 3:17:01 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: saywhatagain

Why do we have a Second Amendment?


6 posted on 02/02/2014 3:21:06 AM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: Bobalu; saywhatagain

I started to, but I don’t want mine published.
I sent the link to Drudge, FWIW.
Wonderful find and posting, saywhatagain!!


7 posted on 02/02/2014 3:21:24 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: saywhatagain

Kris Held,MD. @kksheld. ConservativeChristianPhysician/Patient/Survivor/Wife/Mother of 4 daughters/smallbizowner/on a mission to get govt out of medicine/


8 posted on 02/02/2014 3:24:31 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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You had to go there! LOL !

Obviously too beautiful to be a liberal feminist in the USA.


9 posted on 02/02/2014 3:38:51 AM PST by saywhatagain
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> Then, after the fact, I received a form letter informing me of Aetna’s “new allowables”. I will not sell my services under such terms. While treated as such, patients and doctors are not commodities worthy of such impersonal, inconsiderate, and cavalier treatment. We choose dignity and personal service over disrespect and form letters.

I wish all doctors would rise up and say that to King Obama but I’m sure they don’t want the IRS audits, the NSA evesdropping or the possibility that their vehicle might go careening of a bridge unexpectedly.


10 posted on 02/02/2014 3:56:09 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: saywhatagain

Beauty and brains in one package and a conservative to boot! There’s a lucky man out there somewhere...


11 posted on 02/02/2014 3:57:51 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: onyx
Happened to me not more than 2 hours ago. The doc had to change an antibiotic and nurse practitioner making rounds with him said something about the new antibiotic being too expensive so not “acceptable” for my treatment. He flipped out and told her he wasn't treating me with what was “acceptable,” he was treating me with what was necessary. I think I love him.
12 posted on 02/02/2014 4:10:45 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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(((((MM))))))
I think he loves you back!
You have a wonderful, caring doctor.
He is God sent.
You have my prayers, sweetheart.


13 posted on 02/02/2014 4:47:23 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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This is how you counter that democrat “war on women” BS: you point out and demand answers for every doctor like Kris, every politician like Mia and Sarah and Condolezza.

sick and tired of the democraps getting mileage off of that completely fabricated matra when republicans do nothing to counter.

RLTW


14 posted on 02/02/2014 4:54:35 AM PST by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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Not to mention trumped up criminal charges, sexual harassment complaints, ect.

The Democrat Party of 2008 onward has morphed into the National Socialists Worker's Party of 1930s Germany. Very few have noticed and even fewer care.

15 posted on 02/02/2014 5:10:35 AM PST by sport
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To: saywhatagain

This is the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Here are several of the factors that are driving MD’s from their profession.

1. Government control over HOW they can treat their patient.

2. Government control over HOW MUCH they will be paid.

3. Higher taxes on the amount they earn from their work.

4. No protection from malpractice claims.

5. Most medical specialties have Board Certifications which have comprehensive exams that must be passed every ten years for re-certification. The physicians who were grandfathered and exempt from the exams (pre 1980+-) are now retiring. Those who finished residency in the 1980’s are now 35 years out and are now saying that this is the last time they will take the exams.

6. Many physicians have made enough $$ and their children are now out of the nest and beyond college thus they no longer are forced to work.

7. Dangers to themselves of new viruses and infections that are untreatable.

There will be a mass exodus in the next few years.. (months)


16 posted on 02/02/2014 5:14:54 AM PST by tired&retired
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Add to the list:

8. Being forced to provide medical treatments that are inconsistent with their personal beliefs.


17 posted on 02/02/2014 5:16:29 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: jmacusa

Actually Amendment 13 should apply to physicians with respect to Obamacare:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It seems like many of the Obamacare regulations pertaining to physician compensation or how they can prescribe drugs or treatment construe “involuntary servitude”.


18 posted on 02/02/2014 5:18:58 AM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: saywhatagain

My own doctor “fired” his insurance companies and went to a cash business. I was lucky in that I was already a patient since he’s had to turn a lot of people away due to sheer volume.


19 posted on 02/02/2014 5:24:02 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: tired&retired

and the reason the insurance companies were so compliant or frankly coconspirators in all this: “they have purchased a product that was misrepresented to them and that you cannot deliver....decreased access to care from actual physicians and the shockingly increased costs Aetna patients will now experience”


20 posted on 02/02/2014 5:24:19 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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