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2011-05-01 Economy

Obama expected to cause severe Physician Shortage - MA already 8 weeks to get appointment

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-05-01 09:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 This has been true for a long time for the poor. Most physicians in private practice simply won't accept Medicaid; those that do for the most part limit their participation. You just don't get paid enough to cover the basics of running an office.

Same thing is happening in Medicare these last few years: reimbursements are low enough that an increasing number of docs won't take patients who lack supplemental 'Medi-gap' insurance.

But why bother reviewing our own experience when we could look at Canada? Primary care is generally available there, but if you need a specialist, and particularly if you need specialty, non-emergent surgery, forget it.

BambiCare will make this worse. Then we'll have more government slathered on top of that to 'fix' the problems. Lather, rinse, repeat until our entire society is under the thumb of the 'smart', credentialed, intellectual types who think they know better.

Which is the point, of course.

Posted by Steve White 2011-05-01 10:25|| 2011-05-01 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 My General Practitioner totally dropped Medicare last month. Reimbursement is marginal at best but he dropped it because the paperwork became more complex in January and the penalties for any kind of mistake can be "breathtaking". And his business insurance would not cover his for those penalties. A relatively minor mistake in billing could bankrupt his Practice and him personally.

Not worth the risk....

Posted by tipover 2011-05-01 12:53|| 2011-05-01 12:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Hussein and Company has created the first oppressive regime in American history. A very nasty group of people.

Posted by Flineper Bonaparte3440 2011-05-01 13:27|| 2011-05-01 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 until our entire society is under the thumb of the 'smart', credentialed, intellectual types who think they know better

And then you know that happens to them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-01 14:40|| 2011-05-01 14:40|| Front Page Top

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