215,000 Doctors (1 in 4 Nationally, 70% in California) Refuse Obamacare Patients Over Payment Issues

Lucrum said:
Doctors don't want to work cheap or for free?
WTF?
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Even worse... THEY CAN GET STUCK WITH THE BILL... if insurance company doesn't pay the doc. That would be because the patient didn't pay his high deductible or didn't pay his Odumbocare premium. And even if the doc does get paid, it's still @ 25% less than even the Medicare payment rate.

Doctors are NUTS to accept any Obamacare patient.

Some docs are demanding a deposit be paid before care is received... and they should!

(My wife works at University Hospital... which also happens to be a care center for the indigent. They take everybody, whether they can pay or not. Her average annual collection rate runs about 30%. IOW... on average, 7 times out of 10, she does NOT get paid for for her services.... and that's even before considering Obamacare.)
 
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Scataphagos said:
Even worse... THEY CAN GET STUCK WITH THE BILL... if insurance company doesn't pay the doc. That would be because the patient didn't pay his high deductible or didn't pay his Odumbocare premium. And even if the doc does get paid, it's still @ 25% less than even the Medicare payment rate.

Doctors are NUTS to accept any Obamacare patient.

Some docs are demanding a deposit be paid before care is received... and they should!

(My wife works at University Hospital... which also happens to be a care center for the indigent. They take everybody, whether they can pay or not. Her average annual collection rate runs about 30%. IOW... on average, 7 times out of 10, she does NOT get paid for for her services.... and that's even before considering Obamacare.)
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If you don't like the social, economic, and political ramifications of a two-tiered society where the poor outnumber the rich 99 to 1, don't have a two-tiered... you know the rest.
 
Ricter said:
If you don't like the social, economic, and political ramifications of a two-tiered society where the poor outnumber the rich 99 to 1, don't have a two-tiered... you know the rest.
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Probably best to go back to the way things were: the poor are uninsured and patronize the emergency rooms for which they can't pay and "society" picks up the bill, at which point the whining skips to a different though familiar groove.

And the beat goes on . . .
 
dbphoenix said:
Probably best to go back to the way things were: the poor are uninsured and patronize the emergency rooms for which they can't pay and "society" picks up the bill, at which point the whining skips to a different though familiar groove.

And the beat goes on . . .
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Well said. And don't forget that under the old model, the uninsured are supposed to wait until their problem is three times as expensive to treat before they come to the hospital.
 
Ricter said:
Well said. And don't forget that under the old model, the uninsured are supposed to wait until their problem is three times as expensive to treat before they come to the hospital.
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I haven't forgotten. But it's something they'll never get, like the relationship between making a living wage and paying taxes.
 
dbphoenix said:
Probably best to go back to the way things were: the poor are uninsured and patronize the emergency rooms for which they can't pay and "society" picks up the bill, at which point the whining skips to a different though familiar groove.

And the beat goes on . . .
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Society, as in tax payers, are STILL picking up the bill. And now it's even MORE expensive.
Or did you think health care comes from the government fairy?
 
dbphoenix said:
Probably best to go back to the way things were: the poor are uninsured and patronize the emergency rooms for which they can't pay and "society" picks up the bill, at which point the whining skips to a different though familiar groove.

And the beat goes on . . .
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it's much more efficient for people that can pay to cover those that can't through higher med bills, than to let government grease their palms
 
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