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Oh, My: Survey Says — 75% of Doctors to Drop Medicare
I’ll be interested in seeing how President Axelrod spins this news.
The Doctor Patient Medical Association just completed a survey on doctors’ attitudes about the future of American medicine. The key findings included:
• 90% say the medical system is on the WRONG TRACK
• 83% say they are thinking about QUITTING
• 61% say the system challenges their ETHICS
• 85% say the patient-physician relationship is in a TAILSPIN
• 65% say GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT is most to blame for current problems
Dr. Tar
June 16th, 2012
Won’t that also cut down on spending on Medicare?
The government is going to save a bundle when 75% of doctors won’t support it any more.
It will suck for people in Medicare – long lines, short visits with Doctors, few services, more deaths waiting for appointments – but with few doctors submiting for Medicare reimbursement the less the government has to pay out.
See Problem solved – former Congressman Grayson would approve
ChiefIlliniCake
June 16th, 2012
The Doctor won’t see you now…
The Doctor is OUT.
cfm990
June 16th, 2012
Simple economics. A funeral costs less than the medical.
CrustyB
June 16th, 2012
83% of doctors say they are thinking about QUITTING but if the Tea Party protests Obamacare we’re racists.
Toaster
June 16th, 2012
Mass-Care turned the dysfunctional system in Massachusetts into absolute crap. When all appointments were “free” suddenly there was 2 month wait to see a family practitioner for any reason. Also the reimbursement rate for the “free” visits was so low that many doctors decided to leave the state rather than keep working 60hr weeks for a salary that didn’t quite pay the bills. My neurologist was considering leaving the country when Øbamacare was introduced (one of his patients is a doctor from MA which is where I got the info about Mass-Care).
This is the model that ear leader has for the medical system in this country. Turn all doctors into underpaid, overworked, frustrated government employees.
Billy Fuster
June 16th, 2012
In the long run this will further the evolution of freedom. The day is fast approaching when conservatives will realize the only solution is to COMPLETELY IGNORE the federal government and stop supporting it with their tax dollars.
Dr. Soylent Green
June 16th, 2012
Axelrods spin
99% of the Occupiers will be happy.
99% of the Anarchists Agree with it.
99% of the exempt unions will be cheering.
99% of the illegals will be saying Ole’.
99% of the ignorant sheep…I mean democrats want it.
Granny Flash
June 16th, 2012
I have seen the new treatment for old folks on Medacare. Our company supplied insurance stopped when we turned 65. Our doctor retired. We saw another doctor in the office. I made 2 appointments and we went in together. My husband’s hip had been hurting him. Dr would deal with that when he had a physical. The office made an appointment for 4 months later. When he went for that appointment they rescheduled because it hadn’t been a year since the last physical and Medicare wouldn’t pay until a year was up.
The doctor didn’t touch me. Didn’t listen to my heart or lungs. He just gave me a new prescription and told me, as he walked out the door (he had another patient), if I took too much it would kill me. We do carry Supplemental Insurance and Prescription Ins. Total time for 2 first visits…less than 10 minutes. We have been welcomed to obamacare.
TooMuchTime
June 16th, 2012
What’s the problem? As I understand it, there will be about 800,000 new medical students in this country shortly.
Aufklarer
June 16th, 2012
I just wish I could stop taking Medicare, but here in Michigan, I don’t have much choice. Here is an example of what orthopods like me have to deal with:
Two patients limp into two different medical clinics with the same complaint. Both have trouble walking and appear to need a hip replacement.
The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day, and has a time booked for surgery the following week.
The second patient sees his family doctor after waiting 4 weeks for an appointment. He then waits 8 weeks to see me, an adult reconstruction (joint replacement) specialist, and gets an x-ray. I read the x-ray while he is there, but it isn’t reviewed for another week by the radiologist for the “official” diagnosis required by Medicare.
Finally his surgery is scheduled for 8 to 20 weeks after my office visit, pending the decision of the Medicare review board, composed of fine graduates of our Deetroyt public school system.
Why the different treatment for the two patients?
The FIRST is a Golden Retriever taken to a veterinarian. The SECOND is a Senior Citizen on Obamacare.
Next year, if B. Insane D’oh!Bama gets another term, you’ll HAVE to go to a vet for your hip replacement, because I won’t be able to do your surgery.
moarkdave
June 16th, 2012
They are trying to get the established Doctors out of the field. Sooner or later most of our Doctors will be the “brightest” from other countries. It is that way in Great Britain and starting here also. So many of the Doctors now are from India and other countries because our kids can not afford the costs and loans for medical school.
Rightwingfeather
June 16th, 2012
Yep. Scary but very true.
scr_north
June 16th, 2012
Obama won’t spin this, he won’t mention it at all. Don’t expect the media to cover this either.