Posted on 06/18/2010 12:55:17 PM PDT by edpc
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed legislation Friday to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments — but the last-ditch effort did not come in time.
Moments after the Senate acted, Medicare announced it would begin processing claims it has already received for June at the lower rate. The reason: the House cannot act on the fix until next week.
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Here's what Obamacare does. Pro-Abortion and death to the elderly who know how America is SUPPOSED TO BE. This "Complete Lives System" is alive and well in the Obamaland, where the young Obama Zombie soldiers are kept healthy.. This curve ties in nicely with what Michelle Obama is pushing in our schools? It's ALL part of the plan for the blossoming Marxist nation.
The Democrats are hoping that they can survive angering the elderly vote by gaining more of the youth vote.
This is all unsustainable folks. I’ve talked to people who said they won’t sign up under any circumstances. Ignore the law. Civil disobedience.
A brand new graduate nurse from a 2-year college starts at $18.50 at this hospital and when he/she passes the boards the wage goes up to $22.00 per hour.
Make no mistake - the nurses are worth their weight in gold and deserve every penny they earn. However, it is just wrong that a physician who spends about 10 years learning his profession - in school and through residency training - and racks up tuition loans in the hundreds of thousands is reimbursed such a pitiful amount.
My medicare years are just around the corner for me - I'm 59. I shudder to think what awaits me.
“Many doctors will no longer see Medicare cases.”
More and more doctors were refusing to see Medicare cases even before the cut. This will just speed it up. Either that or doctors will reduce the quality of care they give to Medicare patients. Cheaper and less reliable artificial grafts for surguries, etc. Rushing through surgeries.
“This will automatically take Doctors away from many people age over 65.”
Thats the whole point. He wants those 65 and over to die and go away.
Yep - that’s the way this administration works. If they hit the wall on bad consequences of their actions, they try to make the bad consequences unlawful. Idiots.
“And Bambi “promised” us that we’d keep our Doctors.”
Good thing we have enough lawyers...
AFter high school I spent 17 years training for what I do as a physician, and did a lot of moonlighting to pay off big loans. I didn't ever do it for the money, but do deserve to be compensated for my expertise, the years I spent training, and many, many sleepless nights.
Good! Maybe thousands of doctors across the country will stop seeing Medicare patients, and those refused patients might show up to vote in November.
Many of them will just vote for whomever demands that the physicians work for whatever pittance is available.
zerO and the donks will spin this against the GOP and the medical profession. They will divide the med staff by proclaiming that patients can see an APRN or a PA, whom they think will be happy to do the work for little pay.
In our local hospital, the charge to the patient/insurance is identical for an appointment with an MD or an appointment with a PA. Not to denigrate any specific credential, but if you need expertise, you need expertise. There are excellent ancillary health care professionals, but there is a reason it is more difficult to become a physician than to become a PA and there is a reason why it takes more time.
Yes, my father with Parkinson’s is having trouble finding a neurologist now because they don’t want Medicare patients.
This is all about killing grandma and grandpa, courtesy of the DemonRats.
Control.
My doctor is moving to Panama. They just bought a house there and I’m beyond thrilled.
I'm not sure if you are allowed to quit the People's Hospital #4.
Getting rid of the DemonRats is now literally a matter of life and death.
He wants those 65 and over to die and go away.
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I’m not 65, I have no plans to die but I am sure going away. Away from here where I will have excellent health care, they value life at any age and it’s incredibly great AND affordable.Oh and FUBO, you won’t get a dime of my money anymore. Not one red cent.
Will he be continuing to practice, or is he retiring? On your thrilled comment. It could mean three things, you’re being sarcastic, you don’t like him, or you’re moving down there, too.
What does Congress care? They have their own gold-plated plan. Medicare/Medicaid is for the peasants.
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