Posted on 10/11/2013 7:34:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)-- In the midst of major changes in health care, United HealthCare has sent thousands of pink slips to Connecticut doctors.
Termination letters went to physicians caring for Medicare patients.
Those letters were sent out to doctors caring for 'Medicare Advantage' patients.
It's a plan, marketed to Seniors to provide additional services through UnitedHealthCare.
A mix of primary care and specialty doctors are affected by it. And it comes at a questionable time.
Open enrollment for Medicare starts next Tuesday, and it's still not clear at this time as to which doctors are still in the United network....
(Excerpt) Read more at wtnh.com ...
Wish I were so optimistic.
Since open enrollment begins next Tuesday, 15 Oct., we all need to be on the alert for HMOs across the US making announcements either today (Fri) or next Monday, assuming they won’t do so on the weekend.
So will it be at close of business today? Tens or likely hundreds of thousands of doctors suddenly let go across the US?
Oh no they aren't.
All of the citizens who are currently receiving something for nothing, along with all of the unwashed masses flooding in are changing the electoral total dynamic. - if we allow it.
Why do you think the dems are adamant about not dealing now?
Do you think that they give one whit about free healthcare for any reason other than to build an unbreakable one party lock on all levels of government?
Some delusional people think their goal is so worthy that they can lie their asses off to obtain it. Communist are specialists at this. So is the devil.
Another factor on the left is that they believe that they must lie because the people are too intellectually inferior to understand the worthiness of the goal.
What a cluster
I don’t know if they are that sophisticated. I know sometimes they know full well they lie, but the lie sounds better than the truth and they need to do that in order to get what they “think” is good. All leads to ruination...just like obummercare.
Agree that Dems wanted to hook people and expand government’s role in healthcare for policial and ideological reasons.
However, IMHO we haven’t yet seen the real scope of problems with Obamacare. Give it a little longer and you’ll see some real horror stories that can’t be covered up by the media.
The complexity of this thing is beyond comprehension. The costs will be astronomical. The medical privacy we once enjoyed will be totally gone. The quality of care will be abysmal.
The average American will know who to blame.
My guess is, this was not supposed to happen until after the 2014 elections. Stay tuned.
On second thought, I’m sure Rush will once again point out this is a huge win for Obama.
To practice, you must be extensively credentialed by Federal and State bureaucracies.
To prescribe, the Feds must issue you a DEA #.
How difficult is it to do a computer crosscheck and find the names of the renegades who practice and prescribe, but whose names are not on the list of those approved to do so by the licensing agencies?
Some months ago a friend said that students entering medical school are majoring in the ER as that’s where they will be busiest and guaranteed employment.
It's a shame. I liked my doctor; had him for over 15 years. I feel like he's "shrugging."
UnitedHealthcare plans to eliminate 810 primary-care physicians and 1,440 specialists
from its Medicare Advantage network in Connecticut next year, the association said. The
insurer would not confirm that number Wednesday but said that, in 2014, it will have at
least 1,500 primary-care physicians and more than 4,000 specialists in the network.
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Geesh....what a moron.
That will soon not be allowed. Seriously.
I’m in Texas, but I’m afraid I’ll lose my doctor. He is one of the best I’ve ever had, but is not a member of the AMA and has Tea Party values. He tries to work around the system and says he’ll keep accepting Medicare patients, but also says it’s getting harder and harder. Don’t know what I’ll do if they drop him as I have a rare genetic disorder and not many doctors even know about it, much less how to treat it.
“Back alley” Health clinics, off the grid, on on the way. Concierge Physicians will be the norm. The rest will be staffed by the DREGS of orur medical schools.
Better start raising chickens ... for barter for medical services.
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