Posted on 11/03/2013 8:34:52 AM PST by null and void
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.
A. Slavery
B. Indentured servitude
C. Fascism
D. Communism
E. Freedom
I take both Medicare and Medicaid
But if Forced to do si, I would just quit
Do you recall in the 1980s when Massachusetts made participation in Medicare and Medicaid a requirement for licensure?
Directive 10-296
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Roger that. I was “forced” to enroll when I hit 65 or lose my SS bennies. I would much rather have had the choice to stay with my retirement insurance even though it cost me more. The coverage was better and at least the docs got paid more than medicare pays them. I couldn’t believe how little they paid out for my back surgery against what was submitted for payment. Guess that’s why the docs submitted such high amounts. Hopefully they’ll take me back since I’m having some issues again. LOL! And here I just thought they didn’t like ME. (Keep your doctor/health plan if you like them! NOT!)
In a free society if you try to compel me to do anything, I will resist. You should too.
Whoops. Maybe it is no longer a free society. Maybe government CAN compel me. America has been transformed. Congratulations for letting it just happen. What does it matter now?
Yup - we however are in Tennessee
I’d not work in taxachusetts for anything
—You can’t quit.
Sure I will,
I’ll just drink myself to oblivion
Bad link to the graphic.
Our doctor plans to retire as soon as possible.
I should have mentioned that I do not live in Virginia, but in Massachusetts.
Unfairly forcing doctors to participate in Medicaid and Medicare is inevitable. The younger generation in med school and residency overwhelmingly are leftist and will go along with it. The brainwashing is very thorough.
Mine too. California.
We all saw this coming, and I’m convinced this will indeed become the law of the land very, very soon.
If we let it, it will.
Slavery is making a comeback.
They are destroying the healthcare industry and they know it, this is why people and now doctors have to be forced into it.
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I guess I’m in good company. Rush spent the entire week pounding on the point that this Obamacare roll-out mess was by design, and will serve to benefit the Democrats in their continued destruction of the nation. Recent history suggests that I'm correct in my assessment that this will become the law very soon.
My God. That is something I’d expect to see from the Soviet Union and China.
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