Survey finds doctors rebelling against Obamacare, famous hospitals declining to join

The Washington Examiner ^ | November 27, 2013 | Richard Pollock

[MulberryDraw]

Obamacare applicants across the country are finding their premiums are tripling, their favorite doctors aren't available, the physicians they can see are often far away and many prestigious hospitals offering specialized care are off-limits to them, according to a Washington Examiner survey of health insurance agents and brokers across the country.

Agents associated with the National Association of Health Underwriters were contacted in 16 cites across the country.

[Travis McGee]

Meet your new navigator.

[henkster]

You can keep your doctor*

*...but this will be so awful I can’t promise he’ll keep you.

[capydick]

....their premiums are tripling, their favorite doctors aren't available, the physicians they can see are often far away and many prestigious hospitals offering specialized care are off-limits to them.....

As per the plan

[Red Badger]

Just wait, Obozo will issue an executive order that will make all doctors and hospitals accept the Obamacare policies or be driven out of business.................

[usmom]

It will soon not be optional for doctors/hospitals to not participate. I am actually surprised it is now. It will be join or no license. that’s when you will see MD’s start to flee the country and none (at least good candidates) even want to become doctors. It will be a nightmare and decimate healthcare- all as planned.

[Paine in the Neck]

Horders and wreckers! Why, oh why, is communism always plagued by horders and wreckers? Oh, what a world! What a world! /s

[catnipman]

Every day it becomes more and more evident that hundreds, thousands and maybe even tens of thousands of folks will start being killed by obamacare towards the end of January when they no longer have medical insurance or medical care from their doctors because obamacare cancelled their insurance and they were unable to obtain comparable insurance or medical care.

I’m talking about chronically ill people who are being kept alive by highly specialized treatments by highly specialized doctors in highly specialized treatment centers. You don’t treat cancer, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, childhood genetic diseases, and thousands of other such diseases in the ER.

Those are the people who will truly suffer and die because their existing insurance has been cancelled and they are unable to sign up for new insurance , or unable to afford new insurance, or are offered only policies that no longer include their existing specialized care givers.

We need a new, non-profit organization formed to pay to have the poor souls who will start dying because of obamacare maintain a 24x7 vigil in front of the White House starting 1/1/2014.

That’ll get obamacare repealed faster than anything else.

Obama and the Democrats are going to have blood on their hands if they persist in trying to implement their totally unworkable legislation when it starts to kill innocent children. We need to show the nation that blood so we can end this horror.

[yoe]

The AMA should have “expressed” more than “concerns” about Obamacare aka Affordable Care Act. Doctors are a day late and a dollar short in standing their ground in protecting the patient’s privacy from Obamacare. Obamacare demands patients give up their privacy (freedom)to records detailing their personal lives.

[Rennes Templar]

“You don’t treat cancer, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, childhood genetic diseases, and thousands of other such diseases in the ER.”

Many people will start to turn to CAM (Complimentary alternative medicine - naturopathy, chiropractic and acupuncture), which can treat many of those conditions much more affordably.

[Kozak]

And out comes the Bullsh#t flag. You enjoy trying it.

[mort56]

The AMA represents only about 22% of all physicians and 21% of their membership are medical students and interns. In short, they do not represent the majority of America’s physicians.

[Rennes Templar]

And out comes the ignorance flag.

[Bobalu]

As it was during the time of prohibition, so it will be again with Obamacare.

It will be top-quality health care that is prohibited.

People will go to the Caribbean to get it, just as they went to the Caribbean to get Rum.

People will go to Mexico to get it...or to Canada, or India, or Thailand.

Doctors will set up medical ships off shore, much like Mr McCoy did to sell imported liquor from his boats(The Real McCoy)

There will be hush hush secret clinics in all major cities. (Joe sent me)

First we had the madness of alcohol prohibition, that led to the madness of drug prohibition when the enforcers no longer had anything to enforce. Now we have the madness of Obamacare... pray it does not stick around as long as the drug war has.