Doctors and the AMA supported obama and the democrats with how much money in 2008 and 2012...?
Nephew is a nursing home administrator in Florida. Payments for services are being cut and penalties instated by the government for “unnecessary” services. Bottom line is that the Affordable Care Act is a “hurry up and die” act. Few, if any, are benefitting from the act while most providers and patients are facing higher costs and a reduction in medical services. This “Tax Act” needs to be repealed and a simplified, more cost effective act put in its’ place. As a side note, no piece of legislation with such far reaching effects should be allowed to pass with a simple majority.
The common theme of Obama’s policies
is to claim to comfort the afflicted (help the “have-nots”)
while having the primary goal of
afflicting the comfortable (cut the “haves” off at the knees).
There in is his problem.
He is unable to delegate the administrative tasks to those suited for the job.
That's the idea. Agenda 21, population control.
Many doctors were against the ACA before it was foisted on America. However, there were those useful idiots who thought it was great that everybody would be covered. I suppose they thought that was the primary goal when, in its many details, its goals were about system control. There are doctors who thought it would eliminate the headaches they experience trying to work with insurance companies. They naively ignored the practical consequences of having a single payer, the gov’t, dictating treatments and payments; a gov’t that gets massive political donations from trial lawyers. Then, there are those doctors who are ideologically socialist and lean toward anything on the left side of the spectrum; the American Academy of Pediatrics comes to mind. Finally, the family practice primary care physicians get treated better than other docs, specialists, in the world of the ACA. They don’t realize that the direction the ACA is taking America is toward a European-style socialized medicine system in which all physicians are essentially working under gov’t dictate and pay rates are much lower than in America.
However, those doctors I know are not so foolish and have seen the ACA infection for what it is and have seen it from the beginning.
Harry Reid says that this is a big lie, I think.
Also here:
4:43 Minutes
Decatur Family Practitioner Dr. Marlin Gill Exposes ObamaCare’s ‘War on Doctors’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j7d_ec27Wc
It’s not just doctors being screwed.
About a third of hospital nurses’ time is spent on documentation, rather than patient care. Obviously you need documentation - medications and care given, patient actions and condition, but a third of the time is ridiculous. This is not counting unpaid time - new nurses, and nurses who were swamped by a high patient load or events often spend two or three hours after their shift finishing up their documentation. Don’t even try to get paid, you’ll be told how you need to be more efficient, get written up, lose your job. So, there are some super-efficient nurses, and there are nurses who will cut what corners they can out of patient care, and go home at 730.
My guess is that at least half of medical costs in this country are for the paperwork alone. Insurance companies like to boast that 85% of their fees go to patient care. But the hospitals and providers take that 85% and spend a huge chunk of it on insurance paperwork, government paperwork and CYA.
You have your aides and techs being screwed - 14.50 an hour for soul-draining, back-breaking work. Can’t find Americans for that? Lots of Jamaicans, Africans, Filipinos in the world.
Patients screwed of course. Taxpayers screwed.
Everyone being screwed except for hospital and insurance administration, lobbyists and politicians and government workers.
In the 4 doctor office I’ve been going to for years two of the m have decided to retire this year and once has gone into administration.
Obamacare bump for later......
My Disgust-O-Meter is pegged out...