Government Meddling in Healthcare Begins to Take Its Toll on Poor and Elderly
A little preview of what ObamaRobertsCare has in store for us:
The number of Texas doctors willing to accept government-funded health insurance plans for the poor and the elderly is dropping dramatically amid complaints about low pay and red tape, according to a survey by the Texas Medical Association.
Only 31 percent of Texas doctors said they were accepting new patients who rely on Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled, in the survey provided to The Associated Press on Sunday. In 2010, the last time the survey was taken, 42 percent of doctors accepted new Medicaid patients. In 2000, that number was 67 percent. …
Doctors complain that the Texas Medicaid program pays only half of the actual cost of most services, leaving them to absorb the losses.
No amount of authoritarian idiocy from Washington can alter the laws of economics.
“Every business has a breaking point, and physicians’ practices are no different,” said Dr. Michael Speer, president of the Texas Medical Association.
It’s not just the money:
“All the bureaucratic red tape and administrative burdens only serve to increase the cost of running a practice while diverting a physician’s attention away from patient care,” Speer said. “What’s lost in the health care debate is the simple fact that patients need a doctor when they get sick. And physicians want to take care of patients and not push endless reams of paper around our desk.”
The red tape generated by zillions of pages of ObamaCare-driven regulation will choke healthcare to a halt. The socialist governmedia will of course blame greedy doctors and insurance companies. Further federal power grabs will follow, inflicting still more regulation, until Obama or whoever the Democrats cough up next announces that the private sector has failed to provide healthcare and the entire industry must be nationalized outright, with all doctors becoming employees of the government. By then we’ll be crossing the border to get our healthcare in Mexico.
On a tip from Jimbo.
Speaking of Texas…
Gov. Perry announced today that Texas was NOT taking part in ObamaCare.
(Hooray!)
You are joking about the picture. In good old Soviet Paradise, in health clinics, there were long rows of chairs along the corridors. On a good day, you’d wait 3-4 hours in line, on a bad – you’d show up in the morning and your number would still not come up by the end of the day. So you’d come back the next day hoping to get in. One generally would take half a day off work at least to visit a doc.
Now Obama will say its illegal for doctors NOT to take the patients, so instead of losing money , they will simply leave medicine – it is already happening, there are thousands of doctors at or near retirement age – there will a shortage of doctors in the coming years, and they will be replaced by less costly foreign doctors many of whom will have much less rigorous screening and education
God Bless Texas…
Only the arrogant minions of His Deceitfulness could
take the number one Health Care System in the world and turn it into a bannana republic nightmare . Why don’t they nationalize the insurance companies or do tort reform…something useful.
Everybody relax. There will be plenty of doctors and nurses to replace those quitting their field of medicine. Southern University at New Orleans and Coahoma Community College Mississippi will be fully funded through Obamacare with Justice Dept. affirmative action programs for those specializing in abortion and ‘Euthanasia’ (look for this to become one of the most popular African-American baby names).
Don’t forget the the ONEderchild has said that there will be PILLS handed out instead of “expensive operations” for OLD PEOPLE.
ONEderchild’s supporters said that the conservative plan was “no one better get sick”. Under the neo-communist plan, you should try not to DIE!
Becoming a doctor or a lawyer for the prestige is now a thing of the past. These professions are now inundated with low grade morons with a title. Finding a good one is like finding a man with moral standards in a gay bar for enjoyment. Good luck with that! And the same goes for politicians. Be careful when you go to the ER for chest pain. You might end up being discharged several weeks later as an amputee.
A few of the patient “rights” under the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist healthcare nationalization, rationing, taxation and abortion atrocity:
1. you have a “right” to be taxed to death if you don’t pay for government-run obozocare
2. you have a “right” to be put into prison if you don’t pay the IRS penalty for not getting obozocare
3. you have a “right” to go without medical care when ALL doctors refuse to take any new patients under obozocare.
4. you have a “right” to pay for your obozocare out of your own pocket when your employer cancels your healthcare.
5. you have a “right” to die when the obozocare death panel refuses your treatment
Be afraid – be very afraid – of d-cRAT socialist healthcare.
“By then we’ll be crossing the border to get our healthcare in Mexico.”
And not returning. I’m serious I think about this more and more. The USA is not my country any more. I don’t know how that happened. Even a dump like Mexico has some good points to it.
What you get when you cross the DMV with the ER?
Obanmacare
A few of the patient “rights” under the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist healthcare nationalization, rationing, taxation and abortion atrocity:
1. you have a “right” to be taxed to death if you don’t pay for government-run obozocare
2. you have a “right” to be put into prison if you don’t pay the IRS penalty for not getting obozocare
3. you have a “right” to go without medical care when ALL doctors refuse to take any new patients under obozocare.
4. you have a “right” to pay for your obozocare out of your own pocket when your employer cancels your healthcare.
5. you have a “right” to die when the obozocare death panel refuses your treatment
Be afraid – be very afraid – of d-cRAT socialist healthcare.
I’m not afraid but they should be afraid of me. Liberals should kill me now while they still can, I will not leave one alive once this starts.
Vic Kelley says:
July 9, 2012 at 5:23 pm
“By then we’ll be crossing the border to get our healthcare in Mexico.”
And not returning. I’m serious I think about this more and more. The USA is not my country any more. I don’t know how that happened. Even a dump like Mexico has some good points to it.
Vic – By the end of 2012, more Mexicans will have been killed in the last 6 years by the drug cartels than American soldiers were killed in 9 years in Vietnam. I used to love going to Mexico, never again.
After 32 years in family medicine and emergency medicine, I have submitted my resignation effective the first of the year. At age 63 I have decided that government controlled health care is inconsistent with quality care that I have been devoted to all these years.
I will maintain my license and care for family and friends as long as I can, but I cannot and will not submit to government-controlled healthcare and the sub-standard care dictated by bureaucrats.
It breaks my heart to see the demise of a once-noble profession. Sadly, the practitioners interested in only $$ will make compromises and accommodations with the government controllers, much the same as other socialized systems.
Dr. Theo…several of my friends in the profession are of like mind. What’s interesting that quite a few that have businesses are equally tired of paying taxes,fees and fines and filling out endless paperwork and following endless edicts from unionized bureaucrats that are better paid and cared for than those busting butt trying to make a living and paying their salaries,healthcare and golden parachuted retirement.
They said we need government run healthcare because the patient couldn’t afford the doctors services.
Yet WITH government run healthcare, the doctor cannot afford to treat the patient
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Decimation of our medical system is a feature not a bug. Get used to it if this commie is re-elected. Food fuel and guns are the next commodities they’ll be coming after. A demoralized populace is much easier to control.
To Ghost of FA Hayek – actually,you are wrong. It is not what the doctors charge in a way that patients cant afford, it is what the hospitals and clinics where they work ( packed with overpaid administrators to manage all the already existing govt regs and bureaucracy)charge that usually bankrupts people – and if a person is self paying – the doctors fees are often only 10% – 50% of what you would pay if insured bc a) the fees are standard when set by the insurer, and b) the doctors dont have to chase the payments – so its much cheaper for them if you pay direct.
Maudie N Mandeville says:
July 9, 2012 at 1:58 pm
“‘Euthanasia’ (look for this to become one of the most popular African-American baby names).”
lol! Of course it will be pronounced “Eufanasia”.
4farms
I actually was thinking of the droves of people who will be signing up for Medicaid/health care exchanges
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/04/medicaid-physician-payment-rates-hurts-primary-care-doctors.html
Yes, we desperately need to move from this third party payer system into a consumer based one
And use insurance the way it was designed
Judging by your name, we may have something in common
Wait till we are all forced on Gumbment care and the only doctor you can find is someone like Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies and her tonic.
To Ghost of Hayek – yes, I re-read yr comment, and had misread it the first time. And totally agree with yr reply.
Hope all the commenters on this thread have somehting in common, that being a desire for a different administration (and congress).