Don't worry. Obama has you covered.
Posted on 01/06/2010 1:19:55 PM PST by Sneakyuser
PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health care excellence and efficiency.
...So perhaps the president will give some thought to the clinic’s recent decision to stop accepting Medicare payments at its primary care facility in Glendale, Ariz. More than 3,000 patients will have to start paying cash if they wish to continue being seen by doctors at the clinic; those unable or unwilling to do so must look for new physicians. For now, Mayo is limiting the change in policy to its Glendale facility. But it may be just a matter of time before it drops Medicare at its other facilities in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota as well.
Why would an institution renowned for providing health care of “the best quality and the lowest cost’’ choose to sever its ties with the government’s flagship single-payer insurance program? Because the relationship is one it can’t afford. Last year, the Mayo Clinic lost $840 million on its Medicare patients.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
sounds like a free market choice, a decision that other hospitals most likely will follow....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Oh!! Wait a minute, I think I am already on a “Public Option”.
This is the future for us and it is happening even before the pass the blasted Healthcare Bill!!!!!!!!!
Oh!! Wait a minute, I think I am already on a “Public Option”.
This is the future for us and it is happening even before they pass the blasted Healthcare Bill!!!!!!!!!
When long lines develop because of reduced access to health care, we will see some “ gray market” medicine. A prospective cash paying patient could conceivably use an alias and state that they are not an American citizen or are uninsured. After all, medical providers will not be able to inquire as to a prospective patients’s citizen status in order to receive treatment. In addition, some patients may also want to use this approach because of privacy concerns. I wonder how much of this happens in Canada and the UK today?.
To counter this approach, Big Brother may need to use informants that pose as patients to break up these clinics. The health care bill calls for a tripling to the IRS budget and these agents will needs things to do.
Are we going to transform America from soft tyranny into an hard tyranny c/o the IRS armed agent and some boys from Interpol?
If all you have is Medicare, I have both good and bad news for you.
The bad news is that you are going to suffer. The good news is that your suffering won’t last long. Welcome to Obamacare.
BTW, just for fun I hit Obamacare on spell check. The definition starts with, “The Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962,”. It’s crazy, but it’s really there!!!
I truly wish you the best in this crazy screwed up world we now live in.
This article was very nicely written. It explains in simple terms what is happening, and with force.
Jacoby is to be commended.
I’m going to keep a copy of this around.
I would suspect hospitals in high senior demographic locations would be hit first such as Florida, Arizona.
I would suspect hospitals in high senior demographic locations would be hit first such as Florida, Arizona.
Mom and Dad are both on Coumaden, blood thinner, and need to have their blood tested every two weeks. Last week the lab called Mom and asked her if she and Dad had been through undue stress, because BOTH of them showed a real problem in their blood and had to drastically reduce their blood thinner, which acts like RAT POISON when taken in excess.
Meanwhile, Mom's best friend, who lives in the UK, has been put on the exact same medication.
The “National Health” only has provision for her to have her blood tested EVERY SIX MONTHS!
I kid you not.
65 years and over 15.6% Pennsylvania (My state)
65 years old and over, percent, 17.0% Florida
13.1 New York
10.5 California
Florida followed by Pennsylvania hospitals will be next?
Best wishes for your mom and your husband. That is a shame about your mom.
I survived a stroke suffered during heart surgery and contracted MRSA at the same time. The MRSA resulted in 3 more surgeries to my chest. Instead of the zipper scar, I have a trench. I spent 2 entire near death months in the hospital and another 4 with at home nursing. The hospital bill alone was over a 1 million bucks. It took me over a year to recover, but I now have 95% of what I had before the stroke, I seldom need a wheelchair and I have retained my very opinionated and strong attitude. ;>)
I continue to make trips back to hospitals for various issues and I see at least one of my doctors about every 3 weeks.
I have another darn MRA scheduled for next week. They want to look at my brain this time for a tumor attached to the pituitary gland.... maybe my kids are right and it’s missing. ;>)
Had I not had bulletproof insurance from 4 separate sources, I would likely be dead or living in a tent.
I have already instructed my doctors that if I need anymore serious and lengthy medical attention, I want to be referred to the Mayo in AZ.
However.... other than God, there remains one primary reason that I have made it this far and that is my bride of over 38 years. Without her, I would have thrown in the towel. She was with me, 3 hours from our home, every single day throughout all of this hell, and still is.
The doctors helped, as well as the nurses and all the other medical folks, but it is our ladies that bring us back from the brink.
Good luck...
Don't worry. Obama has you covered.
Very few hospitals with >50% Medicare will survive.
Nursing homes will be next. Many private doctors are no longer accepting Medicare patients. Is O going to force them to with threats of prison?
Bless be to your wife. It is so difficult to see your husband on a feeding tube suffering. I was only 20 mins away and honesty I couldn’t take it. Most call it cold, I called it love.
He survived, but it changed us both. The nursing home was the worse. Then he woke up! He was normal. He was everything I remembered. We will never be the same, yet we
share all that happened. I thank the Mayo for that, and I thank God. We are 62 and 56. We have a long life to live with out the Mayo. Sadly, I’ll never get the benefits,nor will others that thought they would.
MRSA is terrible! My aunt went through it!!! Tell your wife I am truly jealous that she could sit with you and give the support. I feel really guilty I couldn’t do it.
Luckily, the doctors at the mayo said he didn’t know if I was there or not. But I knew.
There is nothing for you to feel guilty about. You did what you could do.
This insurance scam is going to hurt so many lives that it makes me sick.
You take care....
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