Advice from a Physician: How to Avoid Obamacare

Economic Policy Journal ^ | August 4, 2012 | Robert Wenzel

[arthurus]

Medical care is going to get worse under Obamacare. Robert S. Dotson, M.D. tells us why:

As income reductions are being imposed on private practice, costs are being driven up by exploding regulations. In addition, the plethora of new mandates and laws have increasingly criminalized every aspect of the practice of medicine and created vast new armies of armed bureaucrats whose sole aim is to impose civil and criminal penalties on any provider unlucky enough to be singled out for attention...

New restrictions, rules, and regulations on healthcare – on providers and patients alike – have imposed legal constraints with which full compliance is impossible. Medicare rules and regs alone fill tens of thousands of pages, and ignorance of any of them is no defense for the unlucky. The original HIPAA legislation has been amplified with many additions since its inception in 1996:

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ it has been my opinion that, if implemented, 0bamaCare will utterly destroy modern medicine.” <<

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I hope you’re joking. ‘Modern medicine’ destroyed itself when it consented to illicit intercourse with big pharma 80 years ago.

[Greysard]

Do you have more details?

Here, for example:

If you are a mainstream Christian or a Jew, you need not apply to Opt Out of ObamaCare; that exemption is reserved for Muslims, Scientologists, Amish, Christian Scientists and Native American Indians who have a “conscientious objection” to insurance.

Those are your choices.

• Becoming a Native American overnight is pretty hard for most people (excepting you know who.)
• Becoming Amish is all but impossible for an outsider
• Becoming a Scientologist is worse than Obamacare

This leaves you with two options: becoming a registered Muslim or becoming a registered Christian Scientist. You cannot do it in the privacy of your soul either; you need a paper, signed by a CS Teacher (or a terrorist, if you choose the other religion.)

[grumpygresh]

Not yet. Providers can still close their practices to new patients based on their insurance. Providers can legally opt out of Medicare or Medicaid w/o penalty. Providers can also simply not sign up for these programs.
But, in the future, the government may attempt to ‘force’ providers to accept all insurance as a condition of liscensure. I suppose, they could also ‘force’ providers to see a certain number or percentage of government patients. The problem is that with all coercive government programs, things will not work out as the public hopes. Physicians can see patients, but that doesn’t mean thay will do anything for them. Look at all the government rules and regulations physicians will have to overcome for patients to get any services. And if you have an unmotivated physician, there probably won’t be any sense of urgency in elective situations. Some doctors will adopt a union mentality (and we could see doctors unions) and do the minimum amount of work required. Now some doctors may ‘out-perform’ their peers by going the extra mile for the patient. But, sooner or later, other collegues will convince the high performers to ‘regress to the mean’.
The bottom line is that healthcare is cheaper for the payer (government) if little gets done. So the government probably won’t care much if service is slow and mediocre. As long as the critical incidents are kept to a minumum (that is out of the news), patients will have little recouse. Just shut-up and wait for your government cheese.

[TigersEye]

IMO the harm that did will look like a minor glitch in comparison.

[Lou L]

If you eat only real food, from life sources, it is impossible to become ill.

I'm pretty sure that many of the Ebola victims in Africa became sick after eating dead monkeys, infected with the virus. I'm also pretty sure anyone with the slightest medical knowledge would consider them "ill."

Your quack advice is not helpful.

[BatGuano]

Thanks Grumpy. One of the many great things about FR is that posts, like yours, invite one to explore recommended reading. I just ordered both “Cancer Ward” and “Gulag Archipelago” for a greater insight into the evil empire. I have not read Solzhenitsyn and look forward to doing so.

[Magic Fingers]

Thanks for the explanation!

[Chickensoup]

I want to avoid being forced onto medicare. I am being told I cannot avoid it and must not have SS if I want to avoid medicare.

[schwingdoc]

Obamacare is the poison pill to bankrupt all of private medicine. How this system will be recapitalized is beyond me. Which is why I also think its the poison pill to kill our currently bankrupt country stone cold dead.
BHO’s intent from the beginning.

[grumpygresh]

We all know that this will be resisted on a religious liberty basis. I don’t know how elaborate it is to ‘register’ as a Christian Scientist. Perhaps, Christian Scientists will make a killing selling memeberships to those wishing to join their group.
I have seen that a memebership in a so-called ‘Christian Ministry’ plan could qualify as an opt out.
The bottom line is that opting out of 0-care would probably result in an IRS audit which could be worse than buying the insurance in the first place.

[Greysard]

I don’t know how elaborate it is to ‘register’ as a Christian Scientist. Perhaps, Christian Scientists will make a killing selling memeberships to those wishing to join their group.

As far as I know (I spent last 15 minutes reading on the Internet about that) the membership is free, and the yearly dues are "at least $1" - which was some money 100 years ago, I guess, but today you can collect $1 from the ground if you just walk around the block.

The biggest stumbling block for many would be in some incompatibility of Christian Science with other Christian denominations. I quickly read some critique; some of it is pretty harsh. The membership form requires you to break your ties with the other denomination.

If one wants to join CS and is not otherwise engaged she only needs to find two members to sign her application. Those members are supposed to ascertain applicant's beliefs. I do not know how hard it is to pass that test. I think anyone familiar with basics of Christianity would pass easily. You can't be expected to be an expert.

[veracious]

Come out of the Dhimmitude, join Islam ? /sarcasm

[Magic Fingers]

I’m in the same boat.

[editor-surveyor]

Obviously you have a vastly different concept of real food than I.

Quack as you will.

[editor-surveyor]

You may be right; we have no way to even guess what monsters will arise out of that kettle.

[Pining_4_TX]

All I can say is this guy sounds like a loon. He lost me with the old “toxins” canard, then went babbling on about avoiding cell phones, and vaccinations.

How about we live in caves and die of infectious diseases that had just about been eradicated before people started the ridiculous and irresponsible war on vaccines?

If you want to live this way, be my guest, but I suggest you isolate your kids from anyone with pertussis.

[editor-surveyor]

The polio vaccines used in the ‘50s caused hundreds of serious cases of polio, including many deaths, and continue to cause Guillion Barre to those vaccinated. I was fortunate in that I wasn't vaccinated. I have several friends whose lives were devastated by it.

[editor-surveyor]

The polio vaccines used in the ‘50s caused hundreds of serious cases of polio, including many deaths, and continue to cause Guillion Barre to those vaccinated.

I was fortunate in that I wasn’t vaccinated. I have several friends whose lives were devastated by it.