Posted on 01/12/2015 5:21:37 AM PST by rootin tootin
The reason your insurance premiums have skyrocketed during the past year is that Obamacare requires all health plans to provide “free” annual wellness visits and 15 associated preventive services for which they cannot charge the patient a copayment. According to a key architect of PPACA, however, “the annual physical exam is basically worthless.” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, last heard from claiming that he wants to die at 75 in order to avoid becoming a burden on society, writes in the New York Times that “screening healthy people who have no complaints is a pretty ineffective way to improve people’s health.”
The good doctor says he’ll forego his annual exam pursuant to a desire to “make the world a better place.” But, as with his professed willingness to depart this vale of tears after three-quarters of a century, he makes it clear that all men and women of good will should follow his example “to ensure there is no doctor shortage as more Americans get health insurance.” This is where the rubber glove hits the road. Emanuel wants you to voluntarily give up a much-ballyhooed feature of Obamacare for which the “reform” law itself compels you to pay via new taxes and inflated health insurance premiums.
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Emmanuel should voluntarily put himself down, he is close enough to 75. He and his like minded ilk have killed enough with their Marxist ideas.
If I wasn’t a Christian I would say all Obamacare backers can save the country a lot of money by.....I can’t say it. I pray they’re eyes blinded by satan will be opened.
I agree it is a fricking waste of time. But it is a waste of money for me to pay my portion of people’s sex change operations, all the yucky stuff that needs done due to risky lifestyles, drug addictions, etc.
Many people I encounter have had to wait for weeks for appointments when they've been sick because doctors are booked solid for these free annual visits.
I’ll believe this facist on his 75th birthday. He wants everyone else to hop on the iceberg. He’ll find a reason to stick around.
“Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, last heard from claiming that he wants to die at 75”
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Why wait? Die now and STFU.
They aren’t free. You go in and even if healthy, get loaded up with other stuff, like bloodwork, that you get billed for and the insurance pays for only part of it, at best. If you are due for a colonoscopy, it’s worse. All this for a “Bronze Plan” premium nearing $1k/ month for a family of 3.
I did not know all of that other stuff had deductibles attached to it. So basically, the medical profession is using those "free" visits as an excuse to get you in the door and sell you all kinds of expensive stuff, with the cost shared by the insurance company and the person? I wonder if the referring doctors get a cut when they send a patient to a specialist.
A couple of years ago, without any medical problem, went in for my annual physical. My doctor discovered a tumor on my prostate which was subsequently treated successfully.
Every 40+ old man needs a PSA test every year. If it is 2.5 or higher, it merits close watching. Once it hits 4.0; GET A BIOPSY.
It could save your life.
Many insurnce comanies don’t even want doctors to test for PSA. If prostate cancer is caught early, it is very treatable, but not inexpensive. If prostate cancer, which has very few physical symptoms, progresses too far to be treated, it is very inexpensive to supply pain meds until you die.
Don’t let your insurance company kill you without your knowledge.
It may work the other way: A Doctor can be pressured out of a particular clinic if they don’t see enough patients, and perhaps the same is true if a particular doctor doesn’t generate enough “additional” business.
On the other hand, the “Social Worker” at a hospital my Dad was in, recently, agreed with me that excepting cases of emergency, the system should be designed so that patients are advised of final cost(s) to them before procedures and such are done.
What particularly galls me in my recent instance is that the cost before insurance of the chest x-ray I got (as part of the preliminary visit B4 a colonoscopy) is literally 14x the cost of chest x-rays my Dad got when he was hospitalized several days later (at a similar, but different location hospital in the same “group”. Moreover, my lungs are healthy and the x-ray image (or images) were cleared as “you look fine” quickly — it’s not like I’d smoked for 40 years and my lungs were a disaster area...
Then my insurance paid nothing, but the charge was adjusted down to a mere 11x the cost of my Dad’s x-ray (except that his may have been adjusted down, later, too, so maybe my cost really is back to 14x!)
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