Obamacare Has âraped My Future,â College Grad Says In Viral Letter
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Two of my father's doctors no longer see Medicare patients. That's the trend in California and apparently it's spreading across the country.
http://www.physiciansfoundation.org/uploads/default/Physicians_Foundation_2012_Biennial_Survey.pdf (see pages 7-9 for summary of key findings)
A SURVEY OF AMERICAâS PHYSICIANS:
PRACTICE PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
-- Over 52 percent of physicians have limited the access of Medicare patients to their practices or are planning to do so.
-- Over 26 percent of physicians have closed their practices to Medicaid patients.
http://www.physiciansfoundation.org/uploads/default/Physicians_Foundation_2012_Biennial_Survey.pdf (see pages 7-9 for summary of key findings)
A SURVEY OF AMERICAâS PHYSICIANS:
PRACTICE PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
-- Over 52 percent of physicians have limited the access of Medicare patients to their practices or are planning to do so.
-- Over 26 percent of physicians have closed their practices to Medicaid patients.
I haven't heard that one since....elementary school
Says the guy who gets eviscerated every time he shows up.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3883978#post3883978
An example of your uninformed/ignorant assertion. Several of our more liberal members try to use their meme that the 2nd amendment does not apply to individuals. I posted quote after quote after quote from statesmen who were alive at the time the bill of rights was written. Including the guy who wrote them. That state unequivocally that the 2nd amendment does in fact apply to individuals.
Their response? The sound of crickets chirping. Game set match. And that's only one just a couple days ago.
Think before you post big loser. Stupid is not a good look for you.
Doctors and Their Medicare Patients
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: August 31, 2013
"Critics who want radical changes in Medicare, the public insurance program for the elderly and disabled, often allege that the program is heading for disaster because stingy payments from the government are causing a rising number of doctors to refuse to serve Medicare patients.
"In the criticsâ most dire scenarios, baby boomers nearing retirement age could find that their current doctors are no longer willing to treat them under Medicare and that other doctors are turning them down as well. Those concerns have always been greatly exaggerated. Now a new analysis by experts at the Department of Health and Human Services should demolish that mythology for good.
"The analysts looked at seven years of federal survey data and found that doctors are not fleeing Medicare in droves; in fact, the percentage of doctors accepting new Medicare patients actually rose to 90.7 percent in 2012 from 87.9 percent in 2005. They are not shunning Medicare patients for better-paying private patients, either; the percentage of doctors accepting new Medicare patients in recent years was slightly higher than the percentage accepting new privately insured patients."
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Based on the evidence I see on the ground where I live in North Carolina, I am simply not believing this. This article is also the 180 degree opposite of information published by the AMA, American Academy of Family Physicians and the North Carolina Medical Society.
All of my doctors have signs at their front desks stating they don't take new Medicare patients. When my in-laws retired to near Roxboro, NC they found there was only one primary care physician in town who took Medicare. He was an Indian guy who got his medical certifications outside the U.S. - fortunately it turns out he is an excellent doctor.
It appears the DHHS is simply on an offensive campaign to counter all the recent surveys and articles that show doctors quitting Medicare in droves. One example is the recent Wall Street Journal press.
As outlined in a July 29, 2013 Wall Street Journal Article the number of doctors opting out of Medicare has ânearly tripledâ last year compared with three years ago and described the mounting frustrations â low reimbursement rates, bureaucratic incentives â behind that apparent trend.
"CMS said 9,539 physicians who had accepted Medicare opted out of the program in 2012, up from 3,700 in 2009.
Meanwhile, the proportion of family doctors who accepted new Medicare patients last year, 81%, was down from 83% in 2010, according to a survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians of 800 members.
A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that 33% of primary-care physicians didn't accept new Medicaid patients in 2010-2011."
So much for the 90.7 percent of doctors accepting new Medicare patients figure presented in the DHHS report. I wonder how they had to manipulate and statistically torture the raw data to come up with this figure.