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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How much do you think he should make?
Oh, so that must be your brother in post #35!
Not just doctors. The hospital where my better half works, has worked for 35 years, is talking about a merger with the larger hospital in the closest big city, if that happens, he is out of a job, because the subcontract everything. From there it is a short time before they are closed. Our AG predicted community hospitals would be closing.
Your Doc’s PRACTICE may take in 400K/year. So what ? It’s not what your gross income is, but your net after expenses and taxes. I’m a senior engineer, and found out **I** make more, net of taxes, than my physician does. . .
I read the article and your comment that the doctor didn’t create any jobs and that this clinic was going to shut down. Didn’t you read it?
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Not likely. The majority of doctors are relatively conservative.
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I haven't had another appointment yet. I'll ask him again about the great Health Care Bill, that is, if he is still in practice.
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So you’ve “seen the bills”? Wow, so did YOU pay market price, or anything at all, for your fancy device? As for the household budget of a cardiologist, that seems none of your business unless you are writing him a check for the full amount - then you might have a beef. Otherwise, what right do YOU have to comment on his budget? Compared to the overall bill, his take-home pay was probably not overly generous.
See how you like it when an EMT from Cuba needs to replace your jumper cables.
If he supports obama, I would find another doctor.
It’s written into the bill - schools who cater to AA will be rewarded and those who don’t will be less funded.
My doctor bought a home in Panama and is leaving here next year and going down there.
LEt me know when you no longer have a physician- unless you go the physician heal thyself route.
Who is John Galt?
here sir...
I found a few ways to shrug and use them every chance I get!
Not this MD either. But I figure I have about 3 years left to practice, until the worst of Obamacare hits. Then I’m out. I will not spend the last years of my career as a government employee.
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