I thought this wasn't suppose to happen. Didn't Obama fix healthcare for all. (FYI, I'll leave out that 50% +/- will find out their current coverage from their employer doesn't past muster under Obamacare rules and dropping coverage all together and paying the fine is much cheaper in 2013. ) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...medicare_N.htm
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The American Academy of Family Physicians says 13% of respondents didn't participate in Medicare last year, up from 8% in 2008 and 6% in 2004.
The American Osteopathic Association says 15% of its members don't participate in Medicare and 19% don't accept new Medicare patients. If the cut is not reversed, it says, the numbers will double.
The American Medical Association says 17% of more than 9,000 doctors surveyed restrict the number of Medicare patients in their practice. Among primary care physicians, the rate is 31%.
The federal health insurance program for seniors paid doctors on average 78% of what private insurers paid in 2008.
"Physicians are saying, 'I can't afford to keep losing money,' " says Lori Heim, president of the family doctors' group.
Remember the cut they are talking about trying to fix wasn't factored into Obamacare. In fact, Obama has called for cuts not fixes to the automatic 21% cut that congress refuses to enforce after they passed the law.
So tell me, who really want's seniors to just DIE?
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I have heard many things to this effect. The Mayo clinic has stopped accepting medicare patients at one of their branches in Arizona, I think Phoenix, with the stipulation that the patients formerly associated with this branch may not simply go to another branch and receive service there. This is a pilot program for them. Any guesses what the pilot program will tell them? I know of doctors in North Texas who have not accepted new Medicare/medicaid patients for quite some time.
I think people have the idea that they can just turn the thumb screws tighter on the doctors, and they will just keep providing service, maybe surrendering their country club membership, maybe selling out their time-share in Hawaii. I don't think that is the way it is going to fall out. Doctors will find other things to do. Its amazing how necessity is the mother of invention. Also, it is amazing that doctors are actually quite clever, they can see the writing on the wall, and they devise strategems for overcoming disadvantageous economic operating conditions. Who woulda thunk that?!!!
I would encourage everyone to 'find another way', one that circumscribes this administration's glut of legislation, goes around it , over it, under and underneath it.
Screw this administration...this is not AMERICAN government....this is more akin to the garbage the Euro-trash have settled for.
Doctors limit new Medicare patients
