Well, in Connecticut the lines for OB/GYN doctors just got a tiny bit longer.
Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.
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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Unfortunately Mayo does not accept Medicare/Medicaid patients any more.
Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.
He ought to sell his practice now while he might still get a good price.
If he waits till Obama care take effect he may get no offers at all.
my adult dtr has Aspergers and a neurologic disorder and is on Medicaid....she needs botox from a neurologist I know...it’s very expensive....she’s covered by Medicaid and so far so good....but I don’t think the doctor gets paid much for his services....I cringe thinking of having to find another dr. for my dtr....the botox consists of many needles connected to an emg machine and there is a skill and and an art in hitting the right spots...
*raises glass of Moscato d’Asti*
Obastard is so stupid that he thinks that people will continue to work like dogs so that the majority of the population can sit on their asses and collect welfare and food stamps.
Yeah, seems I’m gettin’ older at precisely the wrong time.
heck, I’m a nurse and we LOVE our docs...they’re hospitalists and work 12 hr days for one week, then are off for a week...they are excellent and they do work very, very hard....people just don’t understand the crap they put up with....
My OB/GYN left her practice in January; she was losing money. She will no longer practice that. She went to work for a big local medical facility. It is going to start happening more and more. Since she recommended my primary doc, I told him she left her practice and he just said she was the third doc he had heard of in about 3 months who had done the same. Just wait.
It’s about time to start thowing old vegetables at these politicians when they show up in public. Next, we throw minerals and finally metals...something in the lead family might work.
Not this MD. Sure, there are those who did, but don't extrapolate from what you heard from the AMA and some academic docs etc. They do not represent most physicians.
What isn’t mentioned - malpractice insurance continues to skyrocket - most evident in the OB field. And those costs don’t go down when insurance and government health care payments drop...
I can sympathize with his plight. He might as well get out while the gettin’ is still fairly good.
Yeah, times are tough all over....
So how is he ever going to survive if he's not raking in over $400K a year anymore?
It has begun in earnest. Maybe the price we must pay as a society for the ighnorance of many is the “producers” just stopping producing. It won’t be nice, but there is hope in change. I hope all you nobama voters out have a great time in the struggle. Most nobama voters are ignorant and stupid, so you’re going to need all the luck you can muster. Losers.
It is pretty obvious.
If you want your doctor to stay in business you better start paying him some cash and not just force him to go through your insurance company, particularly if you are on government care.
UNfortunately, those sitting on their butts drawing from everyone else are now apparently in the majority.
Wonder how much malpractice insurance had to do with the decision to close.
Mark my words.
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