pretty broad brush yer paintin with there pal... pretty broad brush yer paintin with there pal...Doctors complaining about Medicare demanding documentation from them is not becoming.
doctors like to play the who me game.
Patients don’t pay for their own medical care, third party payer does.
And when patients don’t work, they get government health care.
When patients are illegal, they use emergency rooms, where the hospital or the government picks up the cost.
When I pay $6500.00 for a half day in the hospital for my kid, and foreigners roam the hall waiting for their family members to get out of surgery, I know I’m paying for them because I am stupid enough to have a job.
That $6500.00 pays for those who don’t pay.
But doctors get paid.
And this system is going under.
Medicare went bankrupt in the early eighties, and, in addition to it being a flawed system, it failed in great part due to the vast amount of theft from the medical community - doctors, pretending the reimbursement they received from the govt was free money.
It was doctors who sunk medicare. They should have seen it as a flawed system and not grown dependent on it.
Instead they bled it dry.
Now people who abuse their bodies their whole lives get excellent medical care and those who choose to eat right, go to the gym and visit competent natural healers pay out of pocket, while the self abusers get huge money.
If any doctor does not, or hadn’t, seen this as a system with a time limit, they can cry me a river.
It is not a system which heals, or prevents disease or includes patients in their own healing.
And PS, if the AMA would stop being pro abortion, it might get back in the graces.
As it is, the only doctors we go to are those who are pro life, who accept and include our choices of treatment, and who don’t treat us like we are stupid with no knowledge.
But they are few and far between.
doctors had better figure out that government and insurance pays them and if they don’t like it they can do something else.
There’s this comment:
“My doc sees me for two to three minutes per visit and charges medicare for an “extended visit”, every time.”
Then there’s this comment:
“I spend more time keeping insurance companies happy and trying to play medicare/medicaid games than I do taking care of patients. And it breaks my heart when I can’t get around the insurance company to do the right thing for the patient.”
Which is it?
Doctors work well with medicare and appreciate the relationship they’ve created with each other? Or doctors don’t need medicare, so they don’t rip it off nor complain about it?