Posted on 04/10/2014 5:14:23 PM PDT by kingattax
What good is “insurance” if it means you can’t find a doctor to treat you?
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My shiny, never used Horizon health card is as effective as a dollar bill during the Great Depression. In fact, an expert tells CNN, “I think of (Obamacare) as giving everyone an ATM card in a town where there are no ATM machines.”
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Good analogy but I like this one...Obamacare is like the Islam promise of 27 Virgins; there may be 27 virgins in hell, but there is no sex in the hereafter so they can not use them. Obamacare gives you many choices for insurance however you can not use any of them even if you have the healthcare card.
The demidiots spent billions, millions just on the website to drive one insane if signing up, with the stupidest healthcare on the planet because people can’t get doctors, or the online info is wrong, the payment did not process, or they end up paying the bill themselves. So much for the honor system.
In the end, if they had given the so called millions uninsured a check for buying their own basic insurance for ten years instead of the debacle, it would have been cheaper overall for the taxpayer, and less frustrating for the Healthcare field. No one could make this stuff up!
One simple solution was a one page law that allowed all citizens to buy health insurance across state lines like car insurance, and the price would have went down with better coverage. Unbelievable. Always the KISS principle!
Making doctors work, and working outside the system was going to be illegal under hillarycare IIRC....
This woman has MEDICAID it is far different from insurance!!!! IT is FREE
paid for by the TAXPAYERS!!! I am YES laughing what the HELL does
she or anyone else expect for FREE!! The guy down the street or next door unfortunately lost his or her insurance due to bimbos like this one!!!
You’re right. ‘taint funny.
Not really laughing in his face, but bottom line, Americans are responsible for those making policy in their name.
Look I knew what would happen people were warned yet they still voted for the bum and his crap insurance solution this is who I am addressing.
I am screwed by Obamacare myself. So does it give me satisfaction to see an Obamacare lover get screwed you bet it does no apologies from me.
27 Virgins...??
Oh, I get it...you get shortchanged by both, right?
You’ve got a jerky knee there, FRiend.
Nowhere did I say it was funny. I don’t see a single “LOL” or even a smiley face emoticon.
Obozocare is a disaster and its victims are a looming tragedy - that includes hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who will be unable to find providers to treat them, or hospitals that are in their network.
It’s going to be the deathknell for this once-great country if it’s not completely repealed within the next couple of years. By then, even those of us who are currently insured are likely to find our coverage cancelled.
I don’t find that a bit funny. I stand by my comment that anyone who believed they were going to receive free healthcare the day obozo signed the ACA was a moron. Some still believe it, and they too are morons. Doesn’t mean they deserve to be laughed at, which I didn’t, nor does it mean they deserve to die (regardless of who they voted for)...which very well may happen.
I've had the same tag line for about 3 years...I like to think it's because it was obvious from the beginning, what Obamacare was all about.
What’s next? Single payer! Insurance will be eliminated.
Doctors are being paid less to see patients than a janitor. Ar $25 per patient, there’s no financial incentive to see them. The government won’t raise their reimbursement rate. As a result - low info voters are left out in the cold.
Then you can only expect what you can pay for. Some facilities accept Medicaid. They are not going to be your state of the art medical care joints. That is the way things are. If I spend a good portion of my salary on healthcare, why should someone who pays nothing get the same level? Does this work for anything else?
Oh come on now, underneath all that horse s**t, there’s got to be a pony around here somewhere.
Then you can only expect what you can pay for. Some facilities accept Medicaid. They are not going to be your state of the art medical care joints. That is the way things are. If I spend a good portion of my salary on healthcare, why should someone who pays nothing get the same level? Does this work for anything else?
The way they designed it is it makes more sense for them to treat very sick patients - even those on Medicaid than it does for them to keep them in good health. Its a fact they lose money up the wazoo on preventive care. The government, on the other hand, will pay the doctor and the hospital the sky’s the limit for catastrophic care. So this woman will have to hope she gets very sick before ANY of those 96 doctors will even see her.
“...if Obamacare is not repealed...”
And what do we have then? Our current medical/health care system is destroyed. It can’t be put back together again. It’s so torn asunder and fragmented, it’s virtually non-existent as we knew and loved it. They’ve now pushed us to NHS single-payer, that all the medical, healthcare and insurance people I’ve talked to, say it can’t be repealed and repaired. We’ll have to cobble something usable together, until an altogether new healthcare system can be devised.
It really depends where you are, for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Here we seem to have a lot of over-capacity, so every single primary and specialist (many hundreds) employed by all three hospitals is accepting both (unless they are accepting no new patients at all). There are hospital-affiliated clinics on what seems like every corner. The situation here is quite unusual, I take it.
We want pie!!!
Bump
Got to realize that's the basic visit fee, with no procedures. The visit is short and 4 or 5 patients can be present in examining rooms at once. Any kind of procedure (especially for Medicare, a little less for Medicaid) and the reimbursement goes way up. That's why we see the ophthalmologist in Florida collecting $20 million a year in Medicare reimbursements.
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