More Physicians Are Refusing to Accept Any Third Party Insurance

Cybercast News Service ^ | December 9, 2013 - 4:32 PM | Barbara Hollingsworth

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A small but growing number of physicians are not accepting government insurance, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and are even refusing to accept patients’ private insurance, according to Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).

Orient says the transition to a business model in which patients agree to pay doctors directly for the health care services they provide started before Obamacare was passed, but that the new law has accelerated the trend, especially among AAPS’ 4,000 or so members.

AAPS is the conservative alternative to the much larger American Medical Association (AMA), which endorsed Obamacare while AAPS opposed it. …

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“You don’t have to go to Mexico for that to happen to you. It happens in both Texas and Florida at intervals.”

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As does the practice of “preferential” treatment. Patients should also know...that money, background, status, looks, and how well you play the game is a LARGE role in the type of treatment you will receive.

People have been reared to put a blind faith in doctors, because rarely do we regard the competence of those who are in the position of getting us well, until they harm us. To those who sing praises to their doctors WHEN they make a mistake, because you think the doctor has had a “bad day”, or that you think it’s okay because he/she is soo niiiiiiicccce, you know NOT that you fuel in many of them, complacency. MANY of them, if not the majority, already have the messiah complex, therefore bolstering up such arrogance is not to your benefit.

If patients were allowed to experience the ‘behind-the-scenes’ realm, they would take far better care of themselves as to not have to see a doctor. At all, if possible. In the very least, not be so quick to run to the doctors for every little sniffle and sneeze.