You can keep your doctor....NOT!

[VF500]

This didn't take long to materialize. Health care services are already starting to be limited to Medicare patients because of a cut back in planned payments. Who actually thinks health care won't be rationed before it's even fully implemented? Can death panels be far behind?

Doctors Plan to Limit Care For Medicare Patients When Reimbursement Rates Are Cut Wednesday - Connecticut Insurance
If a planned reduction in Medicare payments to doctors goes through as planned Wednesday, a majority of Connecticut doctors say they will either stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce their access to care.

 

[winston53660]

This didn't take long to materialize. Health care services are already starting to be limited to Medicare patients because of a cut back in planned payments. Who actually thinks health care won't be rationed before it's even fully implemented? Can death panels be far behind?

Doctors Plan to Limit Care For Medicare Patients When Reimbursement Rates Are Cut Wednesday - Connecticut Insurance
If a planned reduction in Medicare payments to doctors goes through as planned Wednesday, a majority of Connecticut doctors say they will either stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce their access to care.

Arizona has already instituted a death panel for those needing a heart transplant.

 

[hazlnut]

This didn't take long to materialize. Health care services are already starting to be limited to Medicare patients because of a cut back in planned payments. Who actually thinks health care won't be rationed before it's even fully implemented? Can death panels be far behind?

Doctors Plan to Limit Care For Medicare Patients When Reimbursement Rates Are Cut Wednesday - Connecticut Insurance
If a planned reduction in Medicare payments to doctors goes through as planned Wednesday, a majority of Connecticut doctors say they will either stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce their access to care.

Great source -- Insurance Lobbyist... BFG.

 

[BWG]

Let's see cons whine...Medicare is costing too much.

Dems try to trim costs. Cons...'OMG, Medicare doesn't pay my doctor enough money'.


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[MaggieD]

This didn't take long to materialize. Health care services are already starting to be limited to Medicare patients because of a cut back in planned payments. Who actually thinks health care won't be rationed before it's even fully implemented? Can death panels be far behind?

Doctors Plan to Limit Care For Medicare Patients When Reimbursement Rates Are Cut Wednesday - Connecticut Insurance
If a planned reduction in Medicare payments to doctors goes through as planned Wednesday, a majority of Connecticut doctors say they will either stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce their access to care.

Oh, here we go with the death panels again. We've always had death panels. And, like it or not, healthcare is rationed--IMO, it's not rationed enough. Clear cut example of death panels = transplant committees. Not-so-clear-cut include your doctor in his very own office when he says, "Time to call hospice."

It'll be interesting to see if these refusals to see Medicare patients will really come to pass. One of Mayo Clinic's satellites in Arizona is refusing Medicare patients. Mayo Clinic says it's a trial. I hope they go out of business.

 

[MaggieD]

Let's see cons whine...Medicare is costing too much.

Dems try to trim costs. Cons...'OMG, Medicare doesn't pay my doctor enough money'.


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Examples of how Dems try to trim costs?

 

[Aunt Spiker]

This didn't take long to materialize. Health care services are already starting to be limited to Medicare patients because of a cut back in planned payments. Who actually thinks health care won't be rationed before it's even fully implemented? Can death panels be far behind?

Doctors Plan to Limit Care For Medicare Patients When Reimbursement Rates Are Cut Wednesday - Connecticut Insurance
If a planned reduction in Medicare payments to doctors goes through as planned Wednesday, a majority of Connecticut doctors say they will either stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce their access to care.

Medicaid constantly faces the axe because it's grown to a massive beast of burden. The individuals it helps are merely middle-men and the only thing keeping medicaid funding (which so many practices depend on) from being classified as a grant.

For every state it's a masive burden that's extremely costly - and in this struggling economy everything suffers.

 

[Barbbtx]

Great source -- Insurance Lobbyist... BFG.

More New York doctors shun low reimbursement rates, drop Medicare; patients left frustrated
Medical News: Neurosurgeons Warn on Medicare Cuts - in Public Health & Policy, Medicare from MedPage Today
Docs Bailing Out of Medicare, Medicaid - ABC News
Connecticut Docs: Medicare Cuts Will Reduce Access To Care - Hartford Courant
Medicare is Cheating Seniors Out of Care, Says New Study
Medicare Doctor Shortage Endangers Seniors' Access to Care

 

[VF500]

Oh, here we go with the death panels again. We've always had death panels. And, like it or not, healthcare is rationed--IMO, it's not rationed enough. Clear cut example of death panels = transplant committees. Not-so-clear-cut include your doctor in his very own office when he says, "Time to call hospice."

It'll be interesting to see if these refusals to see Medicare patients will really come to pass. One of Mayo Clinic's satellites in Arizona is refusing Medicare patients. Mayo Clinic says it's a trial. I hope they go out of business.

So, you like death panels or what?

 

[VF500]

Great source -- Insurance Lobbyist... BFG.

Yeah, let's shoot the messenger. That's always a wise decision because then the facts will change too, right?

 

[Whovian]

Great source -- Insurance Lobbyist... BFG.

So you're saying it's a lie? That this is not going to happen? Or, are you saying it's true, but doesn't count because you don't like the source?

 

[MaggieD]

So, you like death panels or what?

Death panels....nudie booths....same ignorant emotional bull****.

Every transplant committee (kidney/liver/heart/whatever else) limits access to a transplant based upon one's overall health. It would be a virtual crime to implant a kidney into a person who had metasticized cancer, as an example.

We most commonly know about your so-called death panels in terms of transplants or triage -- triage in the sense that those who aren't going to make it no matter what we do are put at the end of the line while we tend to those we can save.

Treating a terminally ill patient aggressively is just plain wrong, in my opinion. We need to be realistic -- not only for the sake of the patient, but for his family and society at large. We cannot afford to do it all. People just simply need to realize this.

 

[zimmer]

Oh, here we go with the death panels again. We've always had death panels. And, like it or not, healthcare is rationed--IMO, it's not rationed enough. Clear cut example of death panels = transplant committees. Not-so-clear-cut include your doctor in his very own office when he says, "Time to call hospice."

It'll be interesting to see if these refusals to see Medicare patients will really come to pass. One of Mayo Clinic's satellites in Arizona is refusing Medicare patients. Mayo Clinic says it's a trial. I hope they go out of business.

So you're saying there will always be inequality. I accept that... the market works that way. There is equal opportunity, but not a guarantee of equal result. With that in mind...

If it is rationed, then those who can afford to play beat the clock shouldn't be thrown into the boat of those who don't.

As for Medicare... when you lose money on each transaction, you're not likely to make it up on volume. One of two government programs (add medicaid) that operate like crap. And they want the whole enchilada?!

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[VF500]

So you're saying there will always be inequality. I accept that... the market works that way. There is equal opportunity, but not a guarantee of equal result. With that in mind...

If it is rationed, then those who can afford to play beat the clock shouldn't be thrown into the boat of those who don't.

As for Medicare... when you lose money on each transaction, you're not likely to make it up on volume. One of two government programs (add medicaid) that operate like crap. And they want the whole enchilada?!

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First the government displays gross incompetency, then it's given greater responsibility. What could go wrong here?