In Florida, Obamacare to Cause 27% of Doctors to Stop Accepting Medicare Patients

Forbes ^ | 103012 | Avik Roy

[Fred]

With the Presidential election one week away, it’s worth reviewing how Obamacare will impact the residents of key swing states. A new survey of physicians has found that 30 percent of doctors in Florida intend to place new or additional limits on accepting Medicare patients, with 27 percent altogether refusing to accept new Medicare patients, because of Obamacare’s impact on the fees that Medicare pays to providers of health-care services. In addition, Obamacare will deeply cut Medicare Advantage for 1.2 million Florida seniors who are enrolled in the program, and drive up the cost of private health coverage, especially for those who buy insurance on their own.

[GailA]

and don't speak or comphrend ENGLISH very well FDA Bad DRUG HOT LINE IS A JOKE all you get are machines with more buttons to push NO HUMAN involved. Well IDIOTS not all seniors have computers. And how are we to obtain batch numbers? I can tell you from the pill bottle what brand it is, and what lab, but that is all the info you get. I can't even tell you what COUNTRY it was made in, as so many of our drugs now come from out of country because of 0bamanation!

[GailA]

Aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those felt to be best qualified to rule.

When Congress the President and VP have Platinum pay, retirement and health care for LIFE, while voting and signing into laws making you the SLAVE to pay for it, and giving you RATIONED health care and retirement, you just became a PEON, PEASANT or SLAVE to them. TIME TO WAKE DC UP! and tell them same standards or out!

Same goes for those who commit crimes while in Congress or Senate. JAIL, FINES.

[TurboZamboni]

In Wisconsin, Obamacare to Increase Individual Insurance Premiums by 30%, Says Obama Adviser

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/10/29/in-wisconsin-obamacare-to-increase-individual-insurance-premiums-by-30-says-obama-adviser/

I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell ya!

[tbw2]

Or hospital ships in international waters off the US coast.

[Nowhere Man]

Or hospital ships in international waters off the US coast.

Reminds me of the old 1959 TV show, "Mr. Lucky" where a gambler runs a casino on a ship where he takes it to international waters to escape the US/Florida laws against gambling. That's a good idea too, you can put a helipad on the ship as well.

[Nowhere Man]

Do you think those Caribbean countries don’t have laws governing the practice of medicine?

I'm sure many of them do, so you'd have to do research first.

[dennisw]

The foreign MDs will be the worst and will still take Medicare. A relative tracks Medicare fraud 70% is done by foreign doctors meaning they were not born here. They figure they can always flee back home if they might end up in prison