Met with two of my doctors this past week. One works for the federal gubmint and the other a major health care hospital/clinic. Both advised the same thing. No new patients with Medicare insurance.
Watch and see while MDs take their practices to off-shore Carribean islands for routine and elective procedures. Patients who have saved their money will be able to enjoy a nice vacation while receiving medical care. Believe me when I say that people will not put up with this sh*t. The health care in the USA will be reduced to the lowest common denominator offered by the worst doctors to the bottom feeders of this country - the Obama voters.
Medical school. “Oh, boy, this is gonna be great!”
So much for future affluence.
We have a chiropractor here in Pittsburgh who is on the radio approximately 147 hours per week.
He spent all of 2012 shilling for Obama, glowing about Obamacare, and claiming that all of the reports of a train wreck were just “Right-wing Propaganda.”
He has however, stopped accepting third-party insurance in his own office.
I turn 65 nest year and fully expect it to be nearly impossible to find a physician or clinic accepting new Medicare patients. I will probably have to either go to a hospital emergency room or stand in line at some public health clinic in a seedy part of town to find my medical care. A Medicare card will be not worth a discounted cup of coffee at the local Denny’s and to think the the Democrats have for years been accusing Republicans of doing this to the nation’s seniors.
Opinion
Scott Gottlieb: This ‘Doc Fix’ Would Be Bad for Your Health
An attempt to alter Medicare may let Washington dictate how doctors treat patients.
By
Scott Gottlieb
Dec. 11, 2013 7:08 p.m. ET
Imagine if a provision in ObamaCare allowed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to dictate directly to doctors which services they could and could not provide their patients—what individual tests they could conduct, which treatments they could offer, and medicines they could prescribe.
Americans would be outraged.
Yet some Republicans on Capitol Hill are about to help Democrats pass such a provision for Medicare patients. The Senate Finance Committee is set to vote on permanent “doc-fix” legislation Thursday that grants the federal government broad new authority to determine “applicable appropriate use criteria” for the full range of outpatient medical services delivered to seniors. Similar legislative language is included in bipartisan draft legislation that is being marked up Thursday in the HouseWays and Means Committee.
The bill is part of a larger effort to change the way Medicare pays doctors. Each year since 2002, Congress has passed temporary “doc-fix” legislation to cover billions of dollars of shortfalls in Medicare payments. The provisions in the bill apply to advanced radiology imaging tools like CT scans and MRIs. But language tucked into the legislation enables “the Secretary” of HHS to exert the same controls over the vast array of outpatient medical care for seniors.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303293604579251951156481492
You know... this could be a very positive outcome to this fiasco.
People will have no option but to actually pay for the services they receive. And market forces will once again provide the best service for the best price.