Posted on 05/11/2013 2:37:53 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
When President Obama unveiled the Affordable Care Act, he said, "You won't lose your doctor." However, thousands in our area say they are because their doctors are changing their practice.
The doctors are switching to a concierge or boutique medical practice. --snip-- Dr. Lazowick says he wanted to get back to the reasons he became a doctor, which was difficult with the way healthcare is going.
He says, "I was on this conveyor belt where I was treating a problem moving to the next."
Dr. Lazowick is not alone. Many primary care doctors are taking this route. And the pace seems to be accelerating, with the approach of full implementation of healthcare reform in January 2014.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
It's the Carl Rowan Principle.
Bill Johnston-Walsh, AARP Pennsylvania state operations manager, says, “We want to make sure everyone has access to quality care that they can afford.”
Love it... AARP guy with hyphenated name was probably out there supporting Obamacare and didn’t see this coming?
If this becomes rampant, we will see more regulations regarding concierge care. If that doesn’t quell the tide, we will probably see regulations that prohibit concierge care physicians from having privileges at hospitals that receive any kind of Federal moneys.
Obamacare will not allow concierge care to impose on this grand[iose] program.
Doctors should be grateful simply for the opportunity to serve the feral government.
Not hard to imagine, it is exactly like that in Cuba.
“The main problem with the retainer model is that it limits the number of patients that a particular primary care clinician cares for,”
Wouldn’t that be a problem only if you were designing a socialistic medical system that guaranteed everyone the same low level of inadequate doctor care?
The government will never be able to keep up. Ever. Doctors, like ordinary citizens, are immensely brighter than the morons that wind up in politics.
1. Never be surprised when libs are inconsistent. Especially when they are inconsistent over money. They are willing to spend to the last drop of your money, not theirs.
2. The pressures of O-care are what are going to fill her practice up. No one with the funds to do otherwise are going to put up with the lines, etc.
And a lot of those doctors will get audited by the IRS
It also fails to point out that all those new Government doctors that are needed for “free health-care” will be recruited from the top 10-20% of the Acme Meat Cutting School...Of course they'll also have to graduate from the Government School of Practicing Physicians after a grueling 8 week course of study, which the poor will affectionately call “Quack School”
Colorado Congressperson Jared Polis (D) has been hawking Offshore Medical/Surgical Care Business since Obamacare had a breath of life. Good investment opportunity, you betcha.
Momma was start-up guru for an on-line greeting card company and Jared her genius son got to play executive, made Jared rich child with many tools at his disposal.
My doctor dropped out of medicare immediately after the passage of obumber care.
He told me that he had to fill out a 32 page report in order to drop out and continue privately.
The 500 pound gorilla in the room are doctors who are now refusing Medicare, Medicaid, and even routine health care insurance. In doing so, they save so much money by not having to hire a huge staff to do paperwork, that they can offer the same procedures for 50% less cost to their patients.
And make more money for themselves as well. However, they still must comply with lots of the intrusive government b.s. called HIPAA.
http://concierge-physicians.com/strategic-planning-2/ops/tech/9-hipaa-compliance-chklist.html
HIPAA is an insidious thing, as it promises patient privacy, while making their information available to multiple levels of government at whim, in a format easier for government to access. It is the opposite of privacy.
This is why HSAs are such a good idea. Too bad they will be outlawed.
Will a concierge Doctor be able to request tests and get a hospital bed for a patient. I see this type of medicine being banned or restricted to the elites. A perq of working for someone is membership in a "health club" or companies hire/rent an in house doctor.
Obamacare will drive patients to her practice.
“The Democrats will find ways to punish these doctors. The mechanisms they can employ are numerous.”
They can punish doctors, but that will only drive more doctors out of medicine. Making “an example” out of doctors that are giving personal, high value and dedicated care to patients will assuredly backfire. The public will be real happy with Democrats when that happens, I’m sure.
My daughter-in-law finally left hospital Trauma work so she could again work one on one with patients, said the same thing. She feels like she’s now doing what she was trained to do....and not in a hospital setting.
She’s working at a Med-Express and loves it...quality time with patients and at a pace where that is possible.
She often spoke of foreign nurses being hired who had no idea what to do, so they were constantly having to do their work as well.
Can someone on Medicare or Medicaid pay a doctor with cash to continue seeing a doctor dropping those programs due to poor reimbursement?
Can you switch to concierge care with cash despite being in a federal program?
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