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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Willie you complain about Socialism and yet you complain about Capitalism.. Why do you complain about the doctors making $400,000 a year.. To me it is no big deal.. They worked their asses off and they deserve it.. Why don’t you take your class warfare crap elsewhere comrade..
WTF???? Sorry I don’t think you have business in telling people in how they invest their own money..
Once again. boxcarwillie demonstrates his dizzying understanding of economics.
Mark your calendar!
That's the closest thing to a coherent post ever made by "Box Car" Willie "Gimme-Jimmy" Green.
If you're on a union pension, and your union received a government bail out, the tax payers paid for your health care.
I demand a rebate!
The federal government should have absolutely no fiscal authority over health care. Nor should they control any private industry including high speed rail.
Well in the real world, it's unrealistic to expect that government will ever abandon its involvement with either one.
So despite having to be pissed off about government run health care, I at least get to enjoy some modern mass transit.
You OTOH are doomed.
You will always be a disgruntled and miseralbe old grouch because you are obsessed with delusional visions of government that you'll never achieve.
In other words, you have nothing cogent to say.
It has nothing to do with the relative earnings of one profession vs. another.
You are backpedaling. Good. Of course, you could save yourself the trouble by not posting blather in the first place. Or is that too much to expect?
Medical services are expensive and fleeting, producing little long term benefit for our economy.
Medical services may provide real benefits to the people who use them. No further justification is needed for such services.
Moreover, if medical services prolong one's working life, then they do provide both short- and long-term benefits to the economy.
Brick and mortar infrastructure provides lasting economic benefits that span decades and even generations: bridges, tunnels, highways, hydroelectric dams, levees, and yes, railroads too.
Totalitarians of all stripes love big infrastructure projects like bridges, tunnels, highways, dams and railroads.
What they don't like is allowing people the freedom to choose the services that actually improve the quality of life, services such as medical care. Totalitarians see such choices as not providing long-term economic benefits.
Those who favor big, taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects almost always underestimate the costs and overestimate the benefits. The article How Big Government Infrastructure Projects Go Wrong gives just one example of a governent boondoggle of the kind you favor. It is not a pretty sight.
In fact they cause more problems..
Medical services may provide real benefits to the people who use them. No further justification is needed for such services
That sounds like you're quoting Fidel Castro.
He doesn't invest much in infrastructure either.
Roughly 234 years ago, free men removed intrusive and tyranical government involvement from their lives. Had you been there, what would you have done?
So despite having to be pissed off about government run health care, I at least get to enjoy some modern mass transit. You OTOH are doomed.
I see, you now admit that you're on the side of the tyrants who seek to retain illegitimate and unconstitutional control over our lives. Yet, you call yourself a conservative.
You will always be a disgruntled and miseralbe old grouch because you are obsessed with delusional visions of government that you'll never achieve.
Thomas Paine, James Madison, George Washington...I'm in good company. Whose company do you share, Willie, other than those who seek to enslave better men for their own comfort?
Thomas Paine said, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Enjoy your socialism, Willie. Sooner or later, your owners will run out of other people's money. Meanwhile, I'd rather die free. At least when I draw my last breath, I'll know I lived and died as a free man. What are you, Willie?
Meanwhile, I'd rather die free. At least when I draw my last breath, I'll know I lived and died as a free man. What are you, Willie?
Yeah, yeah, yeah... go start a revolution...
post it on YouTube so the whole world will watch.
(((/yawn)))
I won't need to start a revolution. When the teat runs dry, your kind will rip the system apart. Look at Greece, Willie. The government couldn't keep up with the handouts. The moment the milk ran out, entitlement slaves like you threw a temper tantrum.
Your kind is bent on turning the country into another Soviet Union or Cuba. Use your Tax Payer provided wifi to search on Venezuela and Zimbabwe. That's the road you're forcing upon all of us.
You said that, despite having to be pissed off about government run health care, you at least get to enjoy some modern mass transit.
I doubt you'll enjoy those trains for very long. With the government seizing more and more of the health care system, sooner or later, those who don't produce revenue will be considered "useless breathers." Read up on history, Willie. It happens everywhere socialism gains ground. Hell, take a good long look at modern day countries with socialized medicine.
Diabetes, a pacemaker, what else is wrong with you? In Britain, you would not get treatment. In the Netherlands, you'd be involuntarily euthanized.
You should know better than anyone else here; unless your a top level union fat cat, you've got no chance. At least for now, you can ride the choo choo and imagine you're someone important.
But that's ok. Despite having to be pissed off about government run health care, at least you get to enjoy some modern mass transit.
Perhaps I’ve figured out the train fetish. Due to the diabetes, his eyesight has likely deteriorated to the point where he can’t see well enough to drive; but because he’s spent his whole life being such a prick, no one will give him a ride anywhere.
I feel sorry for him. I don’t think he has any friends.
It’s too bad that if he get’s his way, he’ll die in an overcrowded government managed end of life ward wallowing in his own vomit, urine and feces.
Well, at least in the meantime, he’ll get to enjoy some modern mass transit.
I think, as Freepers,we need to call out people to account when they do the class envy and socialistic postings.
I am glad we sliced and diced old Wille today. My Ginzu knives are sharp as ever.
I had the day off from nursing, so I could go after him today.
I am seeing a lot of class envy on the threads lately, and it bothers me.
When I joined FR 10 years ago, success was lauded. It took me many years to make my first post, but I liked how Freepers appreciated hard work, and success.
Now, we have posters who are jealous of success.
Do we really need those people here on FR?
We should call out those people,as they do not belong here.
Life's tough when you have to earn your own money to keep yourself in wifi and transportation.
Am I off base believing he's got no friends, job or hobbies? He seems to post 24/7. Maybe he's getting paid by a leftist group as a professional agitator...
Aren't you the guy that thinks AMTRAK is a wonderful thing?
Yeah...you own that.
LOL!!
I'm SHOCKED....SHOCKED I tell you!!!
Who's "we"?
Got a frog in your pocket?
BTW...how much money in increased taxes are you willing to fork over....for your pet trains?
Good post!!
Yeah...willie, tell us what you do for a living, and how much you make!
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