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Funny, they said this wasn’t going to happen.
I would most certainly be dead today if, four years ago, my doctors had followed these “rules.”
I do find it interesting that they seem to be singling out some of the most prevalently occurring cancers (breast and prostate) to make treatment cut backs for. They can argue all they want about how these cut backs are scientifically motivated. However, it looks more like cost-cutting to me.
Oh but I thought it was the Republicans who “want you to die” according to that nutcase Florida ex-congressman.
The truth is that doctors began over-testing and over-treating patients when the lawyers started suing them over alleged failure to properly treat their patients.
Over-testing and over-treating became a defensive option that became a habit and then was discovered to be a profit center, especially when physicians began to own/lease expensive diagnostic machines like Cat-scans, sometimes at the inducement of the machine salesmen.
In every case, in every decision both the attorneys and the physicians can justify what they do as being in the interest of their clients/patients.
And after all, it was free. Either the insurance companies or Medicare/Medicaid paid for all the tests and treatments and we all know those payments came from some free cloud in the sky, not from policyholders premiums or taxpayers.
I look forward to seeing the AMA, etc. Explain this to the Liability Attorneys.
This should be fun.
Mr. Doctor, under the old rules, would Mr. Claimants terminal cancer have been detected early enough for treatment?
I rest my case, your honor. $100 Million Dollars, please!
Should begin with tort reform, so that Doc’s aren’t motivated to order unnecessary tests to protect themselves from lawsuits.
I personally feel we have way, way overdone it with testing and medical procedures, and a lot of what they’ve been doing is unnecessary.
That being said, the choice should be between you and your doctor. Not government’s.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Before we do a knee-jerk and attack Doctors.....
Having family in the medical profession, I can tell you this is happening largely because Doctors are being told what to charge, even if they lose money on it. An example is the cost of a recent MRI that I had cost $1650. My provider paid $890, leaving $760, of which the Doctor can only charge me $350 as dictated by the provider and the powers that be. The Doctors loss is $450. My family is in Dentistry and they lose money on certain procedures in the same way, but in a smaller scale. So why continue procedures that you lose money on? That is also why cash is still king at the Doctors office.
Are our esteemed members of Congress, cabinet members, upper level government employess, including Barry, his family, and his mother-in-law , going to be denied these tests?
I’ll have what they’re having.
The fact is, the sooner you die, the less of the money you paid into health care they have to pay back.
I see no one asked the malpractice attorneys.
How to fool people.
1) Make a long list with some extra reasonable things that are easy to understand in it and some very unreasonable things that are complex or difficult for ordinary people to understand.
2) Publish a “summary” of the list with just the reasonable things on it. Add a few under-defined unreasonable things.
Example: Physicians should not do the following:
1) Nail their patients feet to the floor.
2) Attempt to cure warts with toads during a full moon.
3) Retroperitoneum laparotomy.
The entire health care field is in utter chaos, run by foreign doctors and foreign staff. It’s not only a major rip off, but extremely dangerous due to the lack of competence and communication. Of course they’ll blame the big insurance mobsters for the extreme costs, and the insurance mobsters will tell ya from their 125 story skyscrapers, they hardly make any money at all.
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Insurance companies require that physicians obtain diagnostic tests to justify procedures and medical treatment. Otherwise, the treatment will not be covered. In fact, the insurance companies require more tests than are needed in many cases. So the obvious solution is to disallow diagnostic tests so that the procedures and treatments are not indicated.
If you don’t look for something, you won’t find the answer, so I guess ignorance is bliss.
I have been listening to Cavuto this afternoon. This is a way they are going to ration. It isn’t just tests they are going to ration, it is also treatments.
It is rotten and people are going to die when they should get good medical care.
This is shameful.
I will be voting Obama out. He must go.
This angers me to no end.
Return to a consumer-based free market system. People can pick on their own, health companies compete for the consumer and costs for tests come down.
This is step one toward the death panels.
So I had a hysterectomy from hemoraging fibroids... so let me guess. Insurance company will now have valid reason to deny pap? My mom had a hysterectomy and ended up with ovarian cancer!
