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.
*shrug* The average Russian is freer than the average American under obama.
— 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.
GAO-10-296 ?
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-296
Communism, plain and simple! If you vote democrat again, expect more of the same.
Ayn Rand.
And I'm for forcing DemoRat politicians to clean my toilets.
Whoops, Should be 10-289.
Good catch.
If that encourages a repeal of democrat Al Gore's low flow toilet law, I'm all for it.
- Barack “404” Osama Junior-
Thomas Jefferson:
"We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves."
Jefferson and the other Founders believed that teaching the ideas of liberty to upcoming generations was essential to preparing them for being attentive guardians of their freedom. The same ideology which rules us today is the one that removed the teaching of the founding ideas from the curriculum of the schools: thus, an "inattentive" voter base.
When the "wolves" call the shots, "the People" become the prey!
Ahh, thats better
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2684446/posts
Obama’s Directive 10-289
I’m not. I want it cleaned.
They break everything they “fix”..
This house is a one hole crapper..
I need it functional when they are done.
I’ll call marry maids to clean it.
And if the docs quit instead? I suppose you could put them in prison, right? Or would it be better to chain them in their offices and flog them if they refuse to treat patients?
Flogging. But just until their morale improves.
Kathleen Murphy came to Washington D.C. when she was just 20 years old. Her marriage to a U.S. Congressman introduced her to the world of congressional politics. It was in this world that she met and became friends with Charlie Wilson.
Murphy returned to Washington in 1993, after being asked to work in the office of Tipper Gore as a volunteer. Murphy reconnected with Charlie and he offered her a paid position in his congressional offices. She worked on the House Appropriations Committee and quickly gained experience in Defense and Foreign affairs.
In the years following her time with Charlie, Murphy worked for the Clinton Administration and became a Congressional Liaison for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She is currently President of Johnson, Murphy, and Associates, LLC, where she advises companies on congressional issues.
“I had a grandmother who told me when I was about 5 years old, ‘I want you to remember one thing: You were born a Democrat and you will die a Democrat,’” she said. “I believed her, even though I didn’t know what a Democrat was.”
I’ve been saying this for three years. Obamacare makes a slave of Doctors, and American doctors won’t stand for that (good for them). But this is not a problem for Obama. It works perfectly into the plan. Obama will import Doctors from Kenya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. Good little Socialist/Marxist/Communists all. Happy servants to the master plan. I experienced one of his inept imports recently during my heart stent surgery (not my surgeon - a house internist). He was a solid solider for The One and his health care takeover. There is an endless supply of others just like him clamoring to come to America and play Doctor.
lets pass a law that makes politicians liable for their lies and fraudulent promises and subject to damages and termination....like the rest of us....
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