The doctor isn’t in
Terrible numbers for physician participation in the Obamacare networks.
“If you like your doctor, you can…”
Oh well, how many people like their doctors, anyway?
The New Neo
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Terrible numbers for physician participation in the Obamacare networks.
“If you like your doctor, you can…”
Oh well, how many people like their doctors, anyway?
If the press were the least bit honest, Obama and the dems would be toast.
If the press were honest, Obama would have them thrown out of their Ivory Towers like Putin did.
There’s much more to the Leftist alliance than just Obama, Democrats, and Main Sewer Media.
“There’s much more to the Leftist alliance than just Obama, Democrats, and Main Sewer Media.”
No…I think that’s pretty much it.
That’s what you think, yea.
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”-Guess who
On another note, doctors that refuse to work will be required to work. Or else.
Doctor Nick Riviera is included in all the Obamacare plans.
I’ve been on this hobby horse for weeks on end.
Finally, it’s getting some traction.
And in other news, it’s slowly being admitted…
a limited, partial, hang out…
that Healthcare.gov will be ready only after Barry leaves office in 2017.
(!)
I bet Saha and Malia are planning careers as nurse practioners to fill the void.
Sasha, not Saha
Can someone explain to me how big insurance companies which do not participate in an exchange will make money? Can they sell insurance which does not meet ACA requirements? In a related question, how will the big hospitals that are not participating make money. Private pay or Medicare would seem to be part of the answer.
Survey finds doctors rebelling against Obamacare, famous hospitals declining to join
“Way over the horizon, about six months from now; [right now] about 100 million people get their insurance through Medicare and medicaid, 171 million people get it from their employers. Watch the employers, because if they start dumping people into Medicare and into Medicaid, and the doctors then say, ‘The burdens are too high, and the reimbursement is too low, we’re not seeing Medicaid patients, then all hell is going to break loose” George Will on Fox News Sunday
Outstanding comment by Geoffrey Britain. This is the real problem with Obamacare, not the website – although that’s a major mess as well. Lots of Republican Senators and House members who are doctors kept pointing this out from 2009 on. Drs. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John Barrasso (R-WY) made a series of U-Tube videos discussing all these issues. You can access them here:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=A5MHoTxGma0
When I hear the MSM or the dems declare that the Rs had no plan or alternatives, it just drive me nuts. All this information was known years ago. Yet, thanks to the dems using every pernicious legislative processes they could figure out and Obama’s false promises, here we are. How do the dems sleep at night, unless they have no sense of responsibility?
Here in the Puget Sound area some of our major hospitals are not in the exchange approved insurance plans and they are now asking why.
The worker bees at the bottom will comply. Whether they like it or not.
The Rs did have no plan against slavery.
The leftist desire for “free” healthcare is going to hit a concrete wall.
The Brits could implement it in ’48 due to low expectations. Americans in 2013 have high expectations for healthcare service. Obamacare, medicare, medicaid, doesn’t matter, it ain’t gonna work out. It is one thing for a doc to see a medicare patient and “balance his books” by seeing some private insurance patients. It is another thing to expect him to provide low payment care all around.
Thanks JJ but except for George Will’s comment, the blockquote was from the article that neo had linked to in her post. I got sidetracked and failed to click on her link but had independently seen the article earlier and ‘duh’ thought it relevant to her post’s theme. Only after I’d submitted my comment did I discover that I’d posted from the article she’d already linked to…
Clearly, great minds think alike 😉
“How do the dems sleep at night, unless they have no sense of responsibility?” JJ
The end justifies the means.
Ymarsakar Says:
December 2nd, 2013 at 2:13 pm
“The Rs did have no plan against slavery.”
The plan was Abe Lincoln and the Civil War. It worked.
The leftist “true believer” rank and file has a critical problem understanding the difference between the process and outcome. It’s as if they seem to believe that if the Stated Goal of something is sufficiently noble and pure, the process will just magically work itself. Amongst the sheep, there’s not even necessarily a “means justifying the ends” mentality because it doesn’t seem to occur to them that the process might go wrong when the Stated Goal is so noble and wonderful. I have enough lefty friends to have observed this in action in recent years.
That said, anyone who speaks out against the process is immediately labeled as being against the Stated Goal, as in, everyone who voiced concerns about Obamacare looming as an implementation disaster were meanies who were against poor people and children getting medical treatment. And when the process breaks down, as badly designed processes inevitably do, it’s not because it was badly planned or simply an impractical idea, it was because it was too little/too late, or actively sabotaged/hampered by the meanies.
“when the process breaks down, as badly designed processes inevitably do, it’s not because it was badly planned or simply an impractical idea, it was because it was too little/too late, or actively sabotaged/hampered by the meanies.”
Willful denial… for to face the truth is to be forced to examine with a critical eye all that one has believed, while accepting that one has played and been played for a fool. Acceptance of one’s foolishness is only palatable for those who place truth above ego and above wishful thinking.
“Pike Bishop: A hell of a lot of people, Dutch, just can’t stand to be wrong.
Dutch Engstrom: Pride.
Pike Bishop: And they can’t forget it… that pride… being wrong. Or learn by it”
dialog from the movie, The Wild Bunch
The plan was Abe Lincoln and the Civil War. It worked.
Really now?
How come the South smashed the blacks back into serfdom over the next 80 years then?
Slavery might have been beaten back, but the power of evil merely regenerated. Reconstruction was an absolute failure.
You can invade Iraq and kill the dictator, but if you then elect an evil tyrant like Obama as a replacement, nothing will really change.
The Civil War was started by Democrats. That was their plan not the repubs. This is a major delusion of the so called 3%ers. The South chose a warmonger for President explicitly because he would start the war. They wanted war and they got it.
Your doctor was sub-standard anyway. You’re welcome.