“I refuse to participate. I will continue to pay my cash only doctor and if I have an emergency then I will get treatment and pay it out like a car. Hell with the “penalty”, I figure the amount saved will long take care of that.”
You will be joined by millions. Millions will fly to other countries for elected surgery or surgery that can be held off.
Next there will a regulation than any Dr. that accepts Obamacare will NOT be able to take a “cash only” patient, and perhaps a regulation that the Dr. be required to TURN IN the cash paying patient.
Sometimes, it's an emergency. A friend just had an emergency gall bladder surgery. 70k so far -- the bills say. They have a HD plan and their exposure is limited. I would imagine you can negotiate the numbers down but I have no idea how much or how much time that would take.
I am ready for a small island in the South Pacific somewhere.
I read a report that clinics are already setting up across the border in Mexico with American doctors — cash only. Canadians used to flee here to get medical care that they had to wait months for, now WE’RE going South to do the same thing.
I live in California and I can only IMAGINE what it’s going to be like after even MORE illegals flood into the system... They’re the ones that need to get health care in Mexico from THEIR government.