Indeed... ;-)
Posted on 06/19/2010 5:04:40 PM PDT by raybbr
Updated 12:15 AM EDT, Sat, Jun 19, 2010
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Laura Wojcik's little girl, Elizabeth, is due Saturday. So imagine her surprise when she learned she'd have to find another doctor for the delivery and find one in just one day.
"I was pretty upset because I love going here and everything. They're good doctors, and then I had to change," said Wojcik.
A doctor from the Norwich OB-GYN Group will be on call this weekend, but inside the office, the waiting room is empty, and there are no doctors in the exam rooms. The office stopped taking patients Thursday when it decided it could no longer meet the financial demands of running the practice.
"We've had a reduction in reimbursement from the state-funded insurances, because the budget situation, things had slowed down, so April, May were very slow, and June continued to be slow," said Bernadette Grecki, the practice administrator.
Add to that the payments from the largest state-funded insurance provider wouldn't be arriving till July, and the office says it had no choice but to close.
"It was too much for the doctor. He realized he couldn't keep funding the practice," said Grecki.
The group says it is working with other OB-GYN's in the area to accommodate patients, and the files of pregnant patients who are at 32 weeks or more have already been transferred to Backus Hospital, so doctors will be prepared when the women go into labor.
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Indeed... ;-)
Your "friend" is a scary person. You choose to associate with such people?
Since you think money is being wasted on health care, and should go to trains, I want to know if your are going to have your defibrillator implanted?
If you truly believe in what you are saying, I would donate the money to Amtrak instead, and forgo the procedure.
I would also like to know how much the cardiologist was going to charge for the procedure,what your insurance was going to pay, and what you would have to pay out of pocket.
When I asked her why the Hell she voted for the Big Zero to begin with, she shut up.
Kind of hypocritical, don’t you think?
You seem to be interested in the details of your cardiologists financial affairs.
Since you have a implantable defibrillator, it sounds like you have serious cardiac disease.
If you don’t like what a cardiologist charges you, treat your heart disease yourself.
No one if forcing you to see a cardiologist.
“Out with the old doctors. In with the new.” - Stalin
You still have not answered the question, if you feel doctors make too much money and need to be regulated and structured, you are at minimum a Socialist, at worst a Communist and at best you suffer from wealth envy. You waste allot of space insulting those who do not agree with you, try presenting a coherent argument instead.
You still have not answered the question, if you feel doctors make too much money and need to be regulated and structured, you are at minimum a Socialist, at worst a Communist and at best you suffer from wealth envy. You waste allot of space insulting those who do not agree with you, try presenting a coherent argument instead.
I've read that over and over at least 4~5 times, OldGoat, but I can't see where you ask any question.
I show no sympathy for a parasitic doctor who quits his practice because he can't squeeze enough money out of MediScam, and in a frenzy of knee-jerk hypocrisy, I get attacked by a bunch of pseudo-conservative pot-call-the-kettle-black socialists.
I politely suggest that you refrain from jumping on the bandwagon so fast, and stop to think about where you really stand on this issue before pretending that you have ESP and know how I think.
a “parasitic” doctor??????????? So you believe doctors should have to work for free? Do you have a clue what it costs them to keep the doors to their practice open? Are you aware that PRIVATE carriers base their fee schedules on what Medicare allows? or that doctors treating medicaid patients treat them at a loss?????????
1. Do you want to see the U.S. health care system restructured to regulate what a Doctor can charge and prevent them from charging the government for services to patients on the government health care dole?
2. If you answered yes to that, are you:
a. Communist
b. Socialist
c. deluded libertarian
d. Envious of Doctors who own big houses, fancy cars and earn more than you do?
3. What are Doctors supposed to do if a patient has no private insurance and are on Medicaid or Medicare, should they treat those patients for free. I only ask because they are already charging the government less than a private insurer.
Does that help?
You want the services of a physician to keep your ticker going.
You only want to pay them what you think is fair.
Sorry, that does not work in the free market.
What I find really interesting is that you will not tell us what the cardiologist was paid for his/her services.
You know, the inplantation procedure of the defibrillator that is keeping you alive.
Since you have severe cardiac disease, you must have to visit the cardiologist frequently. You resent having to pay the bills.
Too bad, so sad.
He does not have to work for free. He has the right to charge what he sees fit. He has the right to drop his practice. He has the right to accept certain patiens. He has the right to drop patients if proper notification is given.
You are the parasite. You want his expertise to keep you alive, but do not want to pay for it.
I hope the administrators are watching your statements, because you have the look of a DU troll.
1. Do you want to see the U.S. health care system restructured to regulate what a Doctor can charge and prevent them from charging the government for services to patients on the government health care dole?
No, I don't believe government should be funding healthcare at all.
Charitable health care can be provided by tax exempt non-profit organizations set up for that purpose. Doctor's may decide whether to donate their services free of charge, or for a wage below market rate.
2. If you answered yes to that, are you:
I answered NO.
Get that into your head and quit annoying me with it.
3. What are Doctors supposed to do if a patient has no private insurance and are on Medicaid or Medicare, should they treat those patients for free.
I honestly don't care what the darn overpaid doctor does.
Just don't whine to me that he's not getting enough money out of MediScam.
Does that help?
I don't know, OldGoat.
I've tried to explain it best I can,
but you really do seem to have a very thick head.
No I am not thick head, I just have difficulty with making sense out of tripe.
There is a lot a rage by Willie against physicians.
Too bad for him, he needs them, or otherwise he would be dead.
Since I just read that passage earlier today, I figured I would share the full text for anyone that may not see it otherwise:
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“I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything - except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only ‘to serve.’ That a man who’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards - never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind - yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of a man who resents it - and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
Read this carefully, Willie. I'll try to use as few syllables per word as possible so it stays down to your reading comprehension level.
The federal government should have absolutely no fiscal authority over health care. Nor should they control any private industry including high speed rail.
Incidentally (oops, that's too many syllables for Willie!), a lot of Doctors are opting out of medicaid. The government payment is often below their costs, they don't even break even on the transaction. In fact, many are forgoing insured patients all together and operating strictly on cash, check or credit card payments. Some set up a payment plan to help their patients make ends meet.
In the grand scheme of things, your pacemaker is your business. Be glad your heart surgeon had the talent and knowledge necessary to perform the operation successfully. I don't know how you paid for it; but most of us are convinced you are either living large on a union pension or welfare. Instead of being bitter and jealous over the price the surgeon charged to save your worthless carcass, get off your lazy butt and go to medical school. Then you can provide the same treatment at 10% of the cost of your procedure.
Surely you have too much time on your hands. This is obvious to everyone here. We have jobs but you seem to post your absurd train fetish, abuse laden screeds at all hours, day and night. Go to medical school, Willie.
Can a member change their screen name? If so, Willie should change his to "Jimmy," because it rhymes with "Gimme!"
Brick and mortar infrastructure provides lasting economic benefits that span decades and even generations: bridges, tunnels, highways, hydroelectric dams, levees, and yes, railroads too.
Then why did you get a pace maker? Would the money not have been better spent on some form of brick and mortar infrastructure?
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