Skip to comments.
Obamacare Fallout: More Doctors Opting Out of Medicare
Newsmax ^
| Monday, 29 Jul 2013 10:06 AM
| Sandy Fitzgerald
Posted on 07/29/2013 11:13:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Three times more doctors are refusing Medicare patients than three years ago, many citing Medicare's increasing rules and lowered payment rates.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the program, even doctors who still see some Medicare patients are limiting the number of Medicare patients they will treat, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The numbers of doctors refusing both Medicare and Medicaid payments wont completely undermine Obamacare, health experts say, but some patients may have problems finding doctors who will accept their new coverage under the healthcare reform law.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abortion; deathpanels; medicare; medicine; obamacare; obamacaredoctors; optout; physicians; zerocare
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-35 next last
1
posted on
07/29/2013 11:13:38 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Comrade Obama’s not going to like this. He’ll be writing executive orders soon to FORCE all doctors to work under HIS plan and LIKE it. Ain’t communism grand.
2
posted on
07/29/2013 11:16:47 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Olog-hai
Looks like the another liberal Utopian design has overlooked the use of free will by parties adversely affected..
3
posted on
07/29/2013 11:17:08 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
To: Olog-hai
I would think that the best doctors that can afford to do so will opt out of Obamacare. That means the best doctors will be serving the elite only, without the federal government controlling their care.
I've said all along that there will be a two-tiered system. There will be those who can afford to opt out of Obama care and have their own medical structures. Then there will be those who have federal health insurance, where everthing will be controlled. Those who don't opt out will find that they're treated as categories, not individuals.
4
posted on
07/29/2013 11:19:42 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Olog-hai
B-b-b-but he said I could keep my doctor!.............
5
posted on
07/29/2013 11:21:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Olog-hai
All of this is by design and part of a long-term plan toward a total government takeover of healthcare. The Obamanites can flog the fact that doctors are refusing to voluntarily accept Medicare to bolster the case that private health care is too unreliable. Thus, all medical professionals should be government contractors if not outright government employees to ensure everyone has equal access — except the elites who drafted the law and then exempted themselves from it.
6
posted on
07/29/2013 11:21:27 AM PDT
by
walford
(http://natural-law-natural-religion.blogspot.com/)
To: grania
I just know when I am ready to retire my urologist is going to be a former cab driver from Kazakhstan.
7
posted on
07/29/2013 11:21:46 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
To: grania
"I've said all along that there will be a two-tiered system. There will be those who can afford to opt out of Obama care and have their own medical structures. Then there will be those who have federal health insurance, where everthing will be controlled. Those who don't opt out will find that they're treated as categories, not individuals."
Yes, one category will be Opponents of the Regime = Soylent Green.
8
posted on
07/29/2013 11:29:19 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: walford
"All of this is by design and part of a long-term plan toward a total government takeover of healthcare. The Obamanites can flog the fact that doctors are refusing to voluntarily accept Medicare to bolster the case that private health care is too unreliable. Thus, all medical professionals should be government contractors if not outright government employees to ensure everyone has equal access except the elites who drafted the law and then exempted themselves from it."
Agree...bears repeating. The big plot all along.
9
posted on
07/29/2013 11:29:42 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He has a great plan!)
To: Olog-hai
10
posted on
07/29/2013 11:33:14 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
To: Olog-hai
I wouldn’t be surprised if an underground health care market sprang up. it would make more sense than the crap ReBamaLosi are forcing on us.
11
posted on
07/29/2013 11:35:22 AM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: Olog-hai
Are these doctors refusing to treat patients with Medicare AND supplemental insurance or those patients with ONLY Medicare?
12
posted on
07/29/2013 11:36:34 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Olog-hai
Leave it to the federal government to mess up the best health care system in the world.
And make no mistake — Republicans have no real interest in repeal. They want the power over life and death as much as the Democrats do.
To: Olog-hai
I have a lib relative who couldn't voted for 0 and couldn't wait to turn 65 to get on Medicare.
It's almost funny watching how irate she gets every time ANOTHER one of her docs stops accepting Medicare, or retires ;)
14
posted on
07/29/2013 11:38:38 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
To: Roccus
"Are these doctors refusing to treat patients with Medicare AND supplemental insurance or those patients with ONLY Medicare?"
Don't know the direct answer to your question, but I know doctors who will not take any patient who has Medicare, but will take private insurance. Medicare is always primary, so these practices have opted out of any Medicare patients.
15
posted on
07/29/2013 11:50:17 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Olog-hai
Don't worry.The Rats will soon try to pass legislation *forcing* them to accept Medicare.And then,when doctors decide to retire (or quit) rather than become free labor for the government they'll pass legislation forbidding them from retiring or quitting before the age of 75.
To: Olog-hai
My mom recently had a simple procedure done with a doc who didn't take Medicare. She was a little concerned, but this doc came highly recommended.
She said that the cost was a little over $100. Eminently reasonable, for what she had taken care of.
Interesting, I thought, a real throwback to the olden days. Take the Gov't out of the equasion, and prices go down. We can't be having that, sez I, and Obamacare will quickly squelch any dissenters.
17
posted on
07/29/2013 12:00:33 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: Jim Robinson
Comrade Obamas not going to like this. Hell be writing executive orders soon to FORCE all doctors to work under HIS plan and LIKE it. Which will be followed with the headline: "More doctors closing practices and retiring from profession."
To: EQAndyBuzz; FRiends
My name Peggy. I am urologist. How may I help you?
Click the Pic
Support Free Republic
19
posted on
07/29/2013 12:07:54 PM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: walford
Thus, all medical professionals should be government contractors if not outright government employees Yes, the leftists will fix this problem by making medical license renewals contingent upon their acceptance of Medicare/Medicaid patients - effectively dragooning the doctors into becoming government employees.
The MDs WILL eat the government dog food, and they WILL like it.
20
posted on
07/29/2013 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
bkopto
(Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-35 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson