Monday, April 29, 2013

Doctors walk out of national Obamacare implementation meeting


Doctors walk out of national Obamacare implementation meeting
Posted By: Susoni [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 29-Apr-2013 13:50:54
 
I predict a great many Doctors will quit in disgust over red tape, turning away patients and those 'you know what' panels. Not to worry, your new doctor will barely speak English. Same with nurses.
Susoni
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According to live tweets and images sent from ophthalmologist Dr. Kris Held, nearly all doctors had walked out in protest and disgust of Obamacare implementation talks at a prominent national health care meeting. Typically, The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Government Relations session is a well attended, formal business conference where brilliant minds in medicine convene. This year was a different story. With talks of Obamacare implementation and compliance underway, doctors left and right had left the auditorium.
Dr. Kris Held tweeted during the meeting, “Doctors are literally walking out of this talk on implementing, complying with Obamacare. We are men and women of the mind not mindless drones.”
“In the past our government relations session was well attended. Government minion is droning on, as virtually all doctors have walked out.”
“I’m staying to the bitter end to make comment and ask how government plans to do all this with no doctors?”
The Obamacare penalty

Starting in 2014, consumers will be forced to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Naysayer’s noncompliance will be punished with an IRS tax penalty. The tax penalty in 2014 begins at the rate of $95 per individual or one percent of household income, whichever is greater.
When 2016 rolls around, the penalty grows to $695 per person or 2.5 percent of annual household income, whichever is greater.
Even worse, a new HealthPocket consumer survey is showing that most uninsured people will remain uninsured. Nearly two-thirds of consumers said that the $95 penalty wouldn’t motivate them to obtain health insurance. The reality is that the penalty isn’t going to motivate very many people to buy insurance in October of 2013. That being said, the Obamacare mandate is going to serve as just another tax increase, a large one at that, which will squeeze more life from the economy, driving away innovation.
Some people are completely uninformed or apathetic toward the new penalty. In the HealthPocket survey, nearly 30 percent said they were “not certain” whether the penalty will motivate them to buy health insurance. According to Kev Coleman, head of Research & Data at HealthPocket, “That uncertainty may stem from a lack of awareness that a tax penalty under Obamacare exists, or a lack of understanding of how that penalty amount will compare to the cost of a new Obamacare health plan.”
What doctors are saying about Obamacare

After practicing medicine for twenty-five years Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser left her dermatology practice in 2011. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of Obamacare,” said Dr. Rosenwasser. “I’ve read the bill. I was conversant with what had already happened with Medicaid, and I didn’t want to go down that road with Obamacare.”
Dr. Richard Armstrong, a Michigan-based surgeon and chief operating officer of Docs 4 Patient Care says, “Every single day, people are talking about retiring early, getting out of clinical medicine, or going into hospital administration, where you don’t have to think about patient care anymore.”
Still yet, some believe government managed health care will work, even though Medicaid is a good example of how government managed care bloats cost, herds ideas, stifles innovation, and is unsustainable for future generations.
“Some physicians are all for Obamacare,” said Dr. Rosenwasser, who had practices in Florida and Indiana. “They’ve been brought up in the government system. This is what they know.”
Most doctors are just waiting to see what happens. “About 90 percent of doctors are completely uninformed about what the government’s doing,” Dr. Armstrong said. “A lot of them are in this free-floating anxiety mode.”
The anxiety mounts

• Will doctors comply or will they walk out on this monstrous government managed system?
• Will consumers comply or will they find alternative answers?
• Will states comply or will they develop a new competitive model?
• Will naturopathic doctors be shut out of the new government controlled market place or will they rise to the occasion?
• What might the medical system look like in the United States in five years?
Sources for this article include:
http://genomega1.wordpress.com
http://www.bizpacreview.com
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com
http://www.washingtontimes.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040090_Obamacare_healthcare_costs_doctors.html#ixzz2RlMx1f1R

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh please. These doctors want us to feel sorry for them because they go to school for so long and yet when they come out, they know nothing. All they know is to prescribe a worthless pill or make a huge mistake, costing someone his/her life. But, we're supposed to treat them as if they are gods to be worshipped. In the meantime, they bilk your insurance, if you're lucky enough to have any, so they can perform endless tests to find out what's wrong. All I hear day in and day out is how the doctors can never figure out what seems to be wrong with you ,especially if you have good insurance and I think to myself what a scam!!

We need national health in this country just like they have everywhere else in the world. Is it perfect? No, but neither is the zionist ruled system that we have now! Sure, sometimes people have to wait a long time for non emergency surgery in let's say Canada, but atleast they won't go bankrupt trying to pay their effin hospital bills! Nor do they have to worry about their insurance dropping them after they get really sick! If that sounds communist, I really don't give a rat's ass!!!!
Wake up America and stop defending the very people that bend you over and f*%$ you royally!

Anonymous said...

I live in Dallas, Texas and the doctors that I know are seriously thinking about retiring. The ones who are not retiring are considering dropping medicare. There's another group forming and they are calling themselves boutique medicine. A doctor from each category like Internal Medicine, Endocrinologist, Allergist, Orthopaedic, Pulmonary, etc. are in a group and they charge 1500.00 per year to belong. If you have lab work or x-rays you are responsible for that expense. They have opted out of medicare and the rumor has it that other groups are forming in other parts of the city. Each doctor has a goal of 600 patients and they are reaching their goal.

I was recently hospitalized and the admitting doctor charged 240.00. I got a statement for the amount and I called to inquire why I got the statement and the secretary told me that the doctor did not accept medicare or supplemets. I think this is becoming the trend among doctors who want their money quickly. 240.00 for filling out a few papers is a pretty good "gig" if you can get it.

Everybody should google Obamacare and read the entire bill. It may have been removed from google by now but I read it a year ago and it took several days to read all of it.

It is time for all of us Americans to wake up. We are about to embark on a very bumpy ride.

I checked on dropping medicare and supplement and the premium with another insurance company such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield would have been 1200.00 per month.

Anonymous said...

The freaks always come out of the closet. Who are DUMB DUMBS, by the way. Wake up and figure out that the so called, "national/government healthcare is NOT about health care but control and rationing your health care while you pay up the *ss for it. Your turn is coming and you will be the one bending and it won'st be to get an *n*l exam.

Anonymous said...

Shill!!!!! National healthcare in alot of the other countries is actually quite inexpensive. You might pay $20.00 to go to the E.R. to be treated for something pretty serious. How they do it is each person pays a flat tax and in return, they get healthcare among other services that the gubmint gives back in exchange for the tax. There is no rationing involved! That's all american media propaganda to sell you on keeping the status quo. The AMA is the biggest lobbying group in Washington, btw. Nat'l heathcare is quite simple and in most cases, above board since in places like Europe, as a good example since it's about as wealthy as the US, people question where there $$$ is going and if they don't like it, they revolt. See, unlike the docile, ignorant, fox news watchin, brain-dead, uneducated, lowlife sheep American's, such as yourself, people in other countries are wide awake and they will not back down to ANYONE! They understand that ANYONE who puts themselves in a position to serve the people, whether politician, doctor, lawyer, waitress, newspaper boy, etc. better do just that....SERVE THE PEOPLE. They answer to us and not the other way around and especially if they are making insane amounts of $$$$ like many doctors. But, you go on ahead and defend your proctologist, cardiologist, oral surgeon and oncologist while they give you a good hosing and don't forget to pay the deductible and copay after paying $1200-$1500/ month insurance premiums for years on end. Then, when you get sick and need the insurance desperately, they will drop your sorry ass just because they can. But, it's the American way and your rights aren't being violated and after all, it's a free market economy and corporations have to protect their profits and you'll just have to suck it up and shoulder the burden.... right?

Have a nice night :)

Anonymous said...

It's called concierge medicine and it's becoming very popular among doctors. Only problem is, if your in good health, why would you want to pay specialists thousands of dollars in advance if you may or may not need them? And, would they treat you if you were already very sick on the condition that you pay for the whole year way in advance, knowing that you might not live? Not much different than insurance really. They need to adopt a reasonable, 'pay as you go' system for their patients and face reality. Their days of driving Porsches and owning yachts are over. Treat the patients because you love your job and are okay with earning a honest living like most people. Otherwise, leave the profession. I don't care that you went to school for 8 years and have loans to pay, either. You still make insane amounts of money and don't struggle for very long after you graduate. Anyway, Med school can be condensed into 2 yrs. but the greedy universities wouldn't hear of it because no one in congress has the balls to get in their face about it.