RE: My view of all this is that we are going to see a exponentially increased number of general practitioners who will not be accepting any more Medicare or Medicaid patients
The Obama solution -— FORCE them to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients under threat of confiscation of their license to practice medicine.
Hey, if they can force people to buy healthcare and force Christians to pay for abortion and Catholics to pay for other people’s contraceptives, this is but the next stepin the chain of things they plan to do.
Unconstitutional you say?
See: Roberts, John.
Yeah, they can try, but that kind of thing doesn’t work very well, at least not in this country. Force me to accept Medicaid? Fine, I close my business. Force me to bake a gay wedding cake? Fine, I only bake cupcakes now.
Liberals haven’t learned the lessons that communists and fascists already know: you have to take the freedom away first, before you can force people to act the way you want them too.
I’ve experienced ‘refusal’ in a subtle manner. They decide what your insurance is worth and how much trouble and liability you present as a patient and you get put on a ‘do not allow list’.
They simply won’t give you an appointment. Millions of excuses and “call us back next week” but no appointment.
They can ‘force’ a doctor to take Medicare and Medicaid, but they cannot make them give an appointment.
Yes. The gay wedding cake. They forced a Christian business to either create something obscene to them, violate their faith and conscience, or refuse service and be closed down. That was a private business. The bastards would have no problem at all forcing doctors and clinics to comply.