The combination of high deductibles and reduced physician participation means that patients will seldom reach their deductible. Paying out of pocket to non-participating providers will probably not go towards the deductible in most cases.
It’s a windfall tax for the Feds and a windfall profit for the crony insurance company.
And you bet that all participating hospitals and clinics will require the deductible payment up front especially because the rates will be low and margins will be tight. Hospitals, doctors, and clinics are not going to waste efforts on collections when you consider that the newly insured 0-care people will be middle to lower income and poorer credit risks. So if you need a hip replacement that costs 75k, and your deductible is 5k, that’s the margin, so pay up or no hip.
By the middle of next year, people on 0-care will really feel the pinch.
You mean all those smart looking people in white lab coats wearing stethoscopes standing behind the prez when he rolled out this monstrosity were just actors? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya.
Sounds like the perfect government economic plan...
"We lose money on each one, but we'll make it up in volume!"
Mark
This is all true, and it will get increasingly worse. This is what happens when you elect an empty suit so full of himself, someone having no grasp of the reality of life or how the system operates. Prez Zippy thinks he just waves his magic wand and riches will flow out of his butt to be showered upon the masses. Well, we all know what flows out of his butt and that he has dumped all over this country with his lies, empty promises and destruction. Impeach this clown.
President, Sam Unterricht, MD |
Dr. Unterricht is President of the Medical Society of New York.
Dr. Atlas will shrug.
Oh boy what an openly stinking piece of ordure this Obamacare is increasingly being day by day!
Keep it up, Obamacare. Be the huge monument to evil you are!
Medicare already reimburses providers only about 80% of what their costs are - if loony lefties et their way and we end up with single-payer government healthcare insurance, all docs will be broke within months.....
As well they should be.
The O Admin plans to remedy that by making licensing easier and by loosening and broadening enrollment in med schools.
Then there will be the thinning of patients by the death panels led by Cas Sunstein et al. Sunstein has already said (written) that children under 13 years should not be allowed expensive medical tretament like dialysis, transplants, etc, because the state does not have enough invested in them before 13 to make it feasible/cost effective. And we all know how he and O feel about old people.
The state no longer serves at our will; rather we are here to serve the state.
vaudine
I’m not “worried sick”: I’m “making plans”.
Wouldn't that be the trend regardless?
Undesirables. The socialist solution has been death camps, but now we have obamacare.
Drives me insane.
What is the incentive for someone to invest the money and hard work to get through med school, internship, and residency to become a slave of the state?
Work twice as hard for half as much.
It’s the Obama way, except it doesn’t apply to the King.
Any fool that Voted for Obama and his ilk deserve every moment of what they get. The rest of us will suffer of course, but that was all part of the Master Plan.
Remember, the Prisoners in the Gulags cried when Stalin died. The moment you step outside your house, realize that we are surrounded by nothing but Useful Idiots.
They Live, and we’re the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.
I had a discussion with a doctor who deals with chronic disease. He had a visit by some MediCAIR beurocrats, asking him why he sees his non-MediCAIR patients more than he sees his MediCAIR patients.
He explained he sees his MediCAIR patients as many times as the plan supports. But the patients cannot afford to pay for extra visits.
He told them he has found the more frequent visits helps his patients maintain a higher quality of life and better health.
The beurocrats warned him that it isn’t fair to give the extra care to patients who happen to be privately insured.