Posted on 11/03/2013 5:02:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
You would think that when your party is burying a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster. But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you. A birdie sent me this:
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.
Many more people will be uninsured. The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach.
The out of pocket costs required by Obamacare's Silver Plan for a non-smoking mother and father with two children making a gross before income taxes of $50,000 (roughly average salary for VA) would be $13,765 per year including the deductible of $10,400. That's 28% of their gross income -- not very affordable and about the same as guidelines for a mortgage payment. For such a family making $100,000 of gross income, The cost would be $21,431 including the deductible of $12,700, or 21% of gross income.
With such high deductibles doctors are stuck with trying to collect cash from the patients, even at regulated charge structures. Thus is makes sense for primary care doctors not to participate in Obamacare, medicare and medicaid. They should encourage patients to participate in Concierge Care and insurance programs run by the doctors themselves with patients who can do simple math. Patients can take out catastrophic insurance with high deductibles for major surgeries. Tax deductability for individual medical savings accounts would make health care more affordable.
The head of Obamacare programs, Berwick, loves the socialized medical system in the UK, but never mentions that malpractice insurance is minimal. In the UK, panels of doctors review and approve malpractice awards, rather than emotional juries misled by trial lawyers. Malpractice reform like this with caps on malpractice awards would go a long way in making health care affordable.
I hope physicians rise up and speak out for common sense, protecting quality medical care in the US and giving patients freedom to choose
THIS along with the fact that Terry McAuliffe has already said he'd go to the government shutdown mat to get a state exchange in Virginia. Unbelievable. Combine the chaos of thousands of people across Virginia losing their health insurance, we are going to add to that on the state level by forcing doctors to accept patients they can't afford to help? Unbelievable. Dark days are ahead, but there is still time. Three days to make sure this does not happen.
Democrats in Virginia will drive up health care costs, drive doctors out of the state, and then drive health care costs up even more because there will not be enough doctors practicing in the state.
What she is calling for might as well be called what it is. SLAVERY.
Can’t say I blame her, but something tells me if Obama and co decide her services are still needed the “Or Else” referred earlier in the thread will likely force her hand.
She needs to escape VA to a safer state if there is one.. (Texas is nice ATM)
Sound like “forced labor” to you? When did you read about that before, Nazi Germany?
I checked twitter; they’ve already tweeted it themselves!
http://www.conservapedia.com/Directive_10-289
Directive 10-289 (May 1, 2019), in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, was an Executive Order drafted by Wesley Mouch, with the willing participation of James Taggart, Orren Boyle, Clem Weatherby, Floyd Ferris, and Fred Kinnon, and signed by Mr. Thompson, Head of State. Its eight points were an attempt to freeze the collapsing economy of the United States at then-current levels. Instead of doing that, it accelerated the decline, strengthened the case of John Galt and his friends, and hastened the ultimate collapse of economy and government.
Re: the ME doctors who dislike women; happens in Sweden, too. I had to go to a doctor (assigned by the town, thank you very much) who snarled when he talked to me. Lovely fellow from one of the hellholes in the ME. I made my husband call the town and have me reassigned to another doctor (major struggle) because the guy was such a POS. I had a good friend who was an emergency room doctor there and had all sorts of horror stories about ALL of the doctors, not just the ME ones. Seems that their work ethic was NOTHING compared to their “rights” to take things like their allotted 15 minute breaks in the middle of surgeries, etc.
Is Kathleen Murphy a mother-f***ing lawyer?
Did you find this before Drudge posted it and if so, are we now “Show-Prep” for Matteo as well?....
I move pretty quickly down a list of familiar sources looking for interesting morning stuff to read and Drudge is among them.
Short of chaining her to an exam table, I don't know how they are going to do that. They could take her license, but she would be out of the medical business, so I don't think she would mind.
It is a shame, because she is a highly trained and competent physician with twenty years left to practice. But all of that training and experience will walk out the door.
We can’t do this. Only if we do not pay for a service can we expect something.
That’s good to know. I have admired every MD I’ve had in the last 40 years.
I keep telling my wife, we need to form our own Landing Party. As the Engineer, I can be Scotty. Our Doctor friend can be Bones. I have a Scientist friend in mind for Spock, and my Brother would be more than happy to be Captain Kirk. My wife can be the alluring Lt. Uhura, though she draws the line at miniskirts.
We have plenty of openings for Redshirts.
Half of the young physicians are now female and many of them are married, raising children and work part time. If working conditions turn bad they will drop out of the work force completely.
see post 28.. That is likely how.
or they will use a family member so she will still be around if she calls their bluff.
Yes, I do think Obama and co would resort to this type of tactic for “the public good”..
Now doctors can apply for food stamps.
Nobody can force doctors to use Medicare and Medicaid, because doctors can drop out of medicine entirely if they find these was too onerous.
Good deal!! Thanks for letting me know :-)
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