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Who Will Provide My Health Care?
6/12/12 By Deane Waldman
Whom do you want to operate on your heart: a doctor or a bureaucrat? This scenario is neither a joke nor an exaggeration. Two trends happening right now make it likely that the person who will provide your health care will have a BA or MBA after his name rather than "MD" or "RN."
Trend 1: Losing doctors
Doctors are increasingly refusing to see government-insured -- viz., Medicare -- patients, or leaving medicine altogether. With our government attacking our doctors, why should they keep seeing government-insured patients? And the word "attack" is truth, not hype.
Imagine you are a doctor. You help a sick patient and bill for your services. The government pays whatever it wants -- a small fraction of your bill. Worse, it continually reduces these payments, now below your cost to stay in business. The ACA (Patient Protection and Affordable [hah!] Health Care Act, or ObamaCare) spends over $1 trillion on bureaucrats, taking it from doctors, and thereby reducing patient care.
While prior surveys have shown similar trends, a recent poll of U.S. doctors gives a new and louder clarion call: doctors are becoming an endangered species. When you view the survey results below, keep in mind what President Obama promised the American people when he pushed through the ACA. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
o ACA provisions and other regulatory controls make 83% of doctors consider quitting medicine.
o 61% say that government rules are making it impossible to follow the Hippocratic Oath.
o 65% of physicians think that the #1 reason for the deterioration in the quality of health care in the U.S. is "government involvement."
o A spectacular 85% think government regulations impair the doctor-patient relationship.
o "How will you respond to lower payments from Medicaid or Medicare?"
- Stop seeing new Medicaid patients: 49%
- Stop seeing new Medicare patients: 42%
- Stop seeing patients entirely or retire: 33%
Still think I was exaggerating about there being no doctors? Lest you think this is all about money or prestige, ask yourself: who makes decisions about my health care?
Trend 2: Increasing government control of health care
The doctor is held responsible for a patient's outcome. Is the doctor in control of that outcome? The answer is a resounding No!
Read more: Articles: Who Will Provide My Health Care?
Democrat Healthcare plan = Cluster-Fuck
6/12/12 By Deane Waldman
Whom do you want to operate on your heart: a doctor or a bureaucrat? This scenario is neither a joke nor an exaggeration. Two trends happening right now make it likely that the person who will provide your health care will have a BA or MBA after his name rather than "MD" or "RN."
Trend 1: Losing doctors
Doctors are increasingly refusing to see government-insured -- viz., Medicare -- patients, or leaving medicine altogether. With our government attacking our doctors, why should they keep seeing government-insured patients? And the word "attack" is truth, not hype.
Imagine you are a doctor. You help a sick patient and bill for your services. The government pays whatever it wants -- a small fraction of your bill. Worse, it continually reduces these payments, now below your cost to stay in business. The ACA (Patient Protection and Affordable [hah!] Health Care Act, or ObamaCare) spends over $1 trillion on bureaucrats, taking it from doctors, and thereby reducing patient care.
While prior surveys have shown similar trends, a recent poll of U.S. doctors gives a new and louder clarion call: doctors are becoming an endangered species. When you view the survey results below, keep in mind what President Obama promised the American people when he pushed through the ACA. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
o ACA provisions and other regulatory controls make 83% of doctors consider quitting medicine.
o 61% say that government rules are making it impossible to follow the Hippocratic Oath.
o 65% of physicians think that the #1 reason for the deterioration in the quality of health care in the U.S. is "government involvement."
o A spectacular 85% think government regulations impair the doctor-patient relationship.
o "How will you respond to lower payments from Medicaid or Medicare?"
- Stop seeing new Medicaid patients: 49%
- Stop seeing new Medicare patients: 42%
- Stop seeing patients entirely or retire: 33%
Still think I was exaggerating about there being no doctors? Lest you think this is all about money or prestige, ask yourself: who makes decisions about my health care?
Trend 2: Increasing government control of health care
The doctor is held responsible for a patient's outcome. Is the doctor in control of that outcome? The answer is a resounding No!
Read more: Articles: Who Will Provide My Health Care?
Democrat Healthcare plan = Cluster-Fuck
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