You can’t force a mind.
The reimbursement rates of Medicaid is only one reason that many doctors don’t take Medicaid. As big of a problem is that Medicaid patients have the highest no-show rate. Doctors schedule patients, and then they don’t show up. This happens with every type of covered person, but for Medicaid, it’s much higher than the general population. I guess the Medicaid patients are too busy not working or something.
Just put up some good fences along the borders, and don’t issue exit permits to the doctors, and it should work. There should still be some folks in the eastern parts of Europe that could consult on the program. For example, you might allow the doctors to travel out of state if they left some loved ones behind as security for their return as provided on the travel papers.
socialism is so wonderful, you have to be forced into it.
A cardinal rule of medicine is that if doctors do not want to treat a patient, they do not have to, and they do not have to cite any reason whatsoever.
But then again, before HIPAA there used to be a sacrosanct doctor-patient confidentiality. W. Bush decided that terrorist doctors and terrorist patients had to be stripped of that confidentiality, or the terrorists would win. So now every two-bit cop with an attitude, all the way up to the Attorney General and his Just Us Department can read your medical files whenever they want to.
So yeah, enslaving doctors will happen if they want to. They may even try to pass some law restricting doctors from leaving the state unless they post bond or leave their families as hostages or something.
Medical tourism will become a big part of Americans health-care
They never learn. Doctors will simply move to other states or other countries which have parallel private/public systems.
It’s not just Kathleen Murphy who believes this. So does Terry “The Bag Man” McAufule.
A vote for him is a vote to set Virginia back.
Can any lawyer out there help us out the the proper legal definition of slavery?
The sad part is that women voters (judging from the ones at work) will think this is a great idea.
Lol. I doubt even the den liberal trash could find a way to legalize slavery again.
If you have a right to my labor then I am a slave.
“Democrats don’t admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations”
Just make it illegal for people to change occupations and make it impossible for anyone to save for their own retirement. Problem solved!/s
This woman knows she can’t nor can the state do this.
This is red meat for her base
You can’t win, you can’t break even, you can’t even get out of the game.
Few doctors refuse Medicare, and many could not keep their doors open without Medicare patients. Require that Medicaid be accepted to be able to bill other patients to Medicare would put docs in quite bind.
Could Virginia become a state with no doctors?
The Dimocratic party at many levels is still tied to the pre-industrial revolution world view.
If they are stupid enough to go through with this farce then Virginia could become the first state with no doctors. Medical skills are extremely portable. Force doctors to do things that aren’t in their best interests and you will see such a flight of medical personnel (doctors and nurses) that Virginia will be unable to legally open a single clinic much less a major trauma hospital.
If McAuliffe is elected.
If they can force bakeries run by Christians to bake wedding cakes for homos, they can force doctors to treat everyone/anyone.