Posted on 06/27/2011 6:18:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politics: Amid the ObamaCare fiasco, the latest is that physicians will be subject to streams of grubby government spies checking up on their Medicare patient intake. This isn't Eurosocialist care anymore. This is the Soviet Union.
In a front-page news story, the New York Times reported Monday that Obama administration officials intend to recruit a team of workplace spies they call "mystery shoppers" whose task will be to call up U.S. private physicians under false pretenses, fraudulently pose as patients and pry information out of their medical office staff about what kind of payment arrangements these doctors are taking from patients these days. It's the sort of sting operation lawmen normally reserve for suspected criminals.
The Health and Human Services Department says its stealth survey is just a well-intentioned effort to learn if there's a doctor shortage, now that ObamaCare has extended medical care to 30 million new patients.
"These newly insured Americans will need to seek out new primary care physicians, further exacerbating the already growing problem," as an HHS document put it.
In reality, it's a Stasi-like move to identify "hoarders" of medical services, much as East Germany domestic spies known as Stasi did to producers and service providers under communism.
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Anyone wanting to make a profit is a suspected criminal to these thugs.
Canada also had rules on how many patients doctors could see in a week. The good news about Canadian doctors was some 90% live within 100 miles of the US border, and many set up ancillary practices in the US, so their patients would be able to see their family doctor without the government mandated waiting interval.
Bump for further perusal of Obama Stalinism.
The good news about Canadian doctors was some 90% live within 100 miles of the US border,
Doesn't 90% of everybody in Canada live withing 100 miles of that border?
A ploy to do away with private practice; force doctors to practice within hospitals where they may better be controlled by the government and unions.
If Obama-RomneyCare is not repealed, all doctors will be eventually required to take all patients or else face loss of their license.
a physician informed me today that all prescriptions must now be placed in a government database. I asked if this was due to Obamacare, and the Doc said yes. Apparently this applies to people on Medicare starting now. Big brother and how.
a physician informed me today that all prescriptions must now be placed in a government database. I asked if this was due to Obamacare, and the Doc said yes. Apparently this applies to people on Medicare starting now. Big brother and how.
Yeah, that'll work. Force them to work in hospitals .... in Singapore and Abu Dhabi and Costa Rica.
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