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Examiner Editorial: Obamacare will end up forcing doctors to take patients
The Washington Examiner ^ | December 6, 2013

Posted on 12/09/2013 8:00:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, and how exactly do you FORCE doctors to provide care? They can simply not show up to work. Doctors are generally very intelligent — they’ll find other ways to make a living.

By the way, American Medical Association “leaders,” how is your support for Obamacare working out for you, morons?


61 posted on 12/09/2013 10:29:19 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: clintonh8r

we did not let the ama speak for us, the government acted as if they were the voice of medicine. the AMA was bought and paid for a long time ago. Most of us were working so hard we didn’t pay attention. And being demonized for so long by so many, on this site as well, has demoralized doctors.


62 posted on 12/09/2013 10:32:29 PM PST by cajungirl
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To: donmeaker

Problem with that is you very quickly run out of doctors. And even the wannabe dictators sometimes get sick.

Actually, we are going to run out of doctors very soon anyway.

Thanks, low information voters! Anyone who voted for Obama DESERVES the pain, misery, death, and frankly Hell that is coming...


63 posted on 12/09/2013 10:33:37 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: ToastedHead

Tennessee mandates seeing medicaid pts as a condition of licensure last time I discussed this with a doc from Tennessee.


64 posted on 12/09/2013 10:35:36 PM PST by cajungirl
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To: cajungirl

Demonize doctors? Yeah, I’ve seen some idiots even here do that. But they are, as I said, idiots.

Good doctors are a treasure. Too bad mine retired. Thanks again, low information voters who elected obama, you scumbags.


65 posted on 12/09/2013 10:42:46 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: TChad
That will decrease the supply of doctors and will kill and cripple Americans, but it may be a politically viable strategy if the MSM pumps out enough pro-Obamacare propaganda. And they will.

It won't be a politically viable strategy. Why? Because Barry's biggest biggest supporters who aren't black or hard left, the so-called millennials, have figured out that Barry was looking at them, not as though they were the object of his undying affection, but as a wolf looks at a lamb. He has lost them. And on top of that, there are millions of insurance policy holders who have lost their insurance and know that it's because of Obamacare. The one group realizes it's the target for robbery. The second group realizes that it has been mugged. Neither group is going to embrace the health care felon as their savior.

And Obama is looked at more and more and more unfavorably in spite of everything the press has tried to do to deflect attention from him. He may have had the idea that when his Cloward-Piven scheme starts to collapse the system everyone will turn to him and ask him to step in and save them. Lefty-Boy is going to have a really rude awakening when his political fantasies wake him into a nightmare reality. He won't be able to talk his way out of it and he won't be able to muster the force necessary to shut down a nation of this size. This isn't Cuba or Venezuela or Cambodia. His armed government agency thugs will be insufficient. And the number of folks in the government that will be able to use the government to counteract any attempted takeover by him using government will surprise and dismay him and his tiny band when reality comes up hard against leftist theory.
66 posted on 12/09/2013 10:43:13 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Excellence

Partially, but that may also be a case of the government having the thugs’ backs. Far fewer knockout gamer in places where concealed carry is common.


67 posted on 12/09/2013 10:48:43 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: ZOOKER
The stick will be IRS audits, blacklisting at hospitals, and threatening to jerk their license to practice medicine.

The feds don't control licensing for medical practice. That is handled by the individual states. It would however be easy for the feds to invalidate a physician's DEA number so he or she could no longer write prescriptions.

68 posted on 12/09/2013 10:52:06 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare Motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: aruanan
I hope and pray that you are right. I lost a lot of faith in American voters after the last election.

We'll see.

69 posted on 12/09/2013 10:56:10 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare Motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: cajungirl

I wonder if that came out of the TennCare mess. (Not too familiar with that fun government experiment, just remember hearing about it.)


70 posted on 12/09/2013 11:11:57 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: ToastedHead

I think it was tencare


71 posted on 12/09/2013 11:19:53 PM PST by cajungirl
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72 posted on 12/10/2013 12:22:52 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Excellence

Tell me about it. After my primary care physician moved on, the huge medical group we’re in tried to move me over to a Paki. The poor guy actually seemed like a nice guy and was trying to sell me on staying with him, but there is no way on God’s green Earth I could possibly accept a primary care doc who had been taught since infancy to hate non-Muslims, and I requested a different doc ASAP.


73 posted on 12/10/2013 12:26:23 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do we even need doctors nowadays?
Isn’t there an app for that?


74 posted on 12/10/2013 12:27:45 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Lurker
Not a moment too soon of you ask me. I’m not “buying” anything their selling. I’m not going to pay any fines, either. This ****” stops now. F*** all of them.

I said this exact thing today.

75 posted on 12/10/2013 12:28:19 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: kabar

Exactly, any attempt to actually force doctors to work for a loss would be nothing less than an attempt to kill them outright. You cannot force people into such a corner unless you are intent on bloodshed. I only wish rats were that stupid.


76 posted on 12/10/2013 12:42:17 AM PST by LibWhacker
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I’m not “buying” anything their selling. I’m not going to pay any fines, either. This ****” stops now. F*** all of them.

The attitude that we must ALL adopt to STOP this silly $hit sooner rather than later.

77 posted on 12/10/2013 12:49:53 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: piytar

Most of us owe our lives to a doctor. Seriously, without their care a lot of us over the course of our lifetimes would have succumbed to something without intervention. But yeah, I believe that if you are born with the talent and ambition & put in all that time and money on schooling with follow up studies the rest of your careered life to keep up with the changes in science and medicine you deserve to live well, and be in control of the choices you make in regards to your practice. PS I do wish they still made house calls:)


78 posted on 12/10/2013 1:07:57 AM PST by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Slings and Arrows

My God, glad I had 3 major surgeries in the last 3 years. All well now


79 posted on 12/10/2013 1:32:30 AM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: TChad

It’s a GOOD thing Comrade:

http://healthland.time.com/2013/08/07/need-to-see-the-doctor-you-may-have-company-on-your-next-visit/


80 posted on 12/10/2013 1:40:48 AM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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