Are Doctors required by law to...

[uscitizen]

Accept Medicare or Medicaid patients?
Accept private insurance?

If not how will the healthcare reform impact them if they choose not to accept insurance or medicare/medicaid?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Accept Medicare or Medicaid patients?
Accept private insurance?

If not how will the healthcare reform impact them if they choose not to accept insurance or medicare/medicaid?

No Doctors are not required by law to accept any of that, at least not yet, but you can expect that to change if Obama has his way.

 

[xotoxi]

Accept Medicare or Medicaid patients?
Accept private insurance?

If not how will the healthcare reform impact them if they choose not to accept insurance or medicare/medicaid?

No and no.

I have not heard that doctors will be forced to accept any of these insurances. As it stands now, a patient can go to a physician that does not accept their insurance, pay cash, get a receipt, and then personally bill their insurance. Usually they won't be reimbursed all of what they paid, but some people don't care.

 

[uscitizen]

Which brings up another point, most private insurers do not reimburse full doctors fees either.

 

[JW Frogen]

Doctors in OZ are required to offer you a free medical check up in your 40s.

I went and the doctor said "do you want a prostrate exam"?

There was a long silence.

"We do it by a blood test now."

I think you could have heard me yell "YES!!!!!!!!!!!" all the way to Singapore.

 

[uscitizen]

I don't think Doctors are required by law to give anything free in America. Hospitals maybe, but not Doctors.

 

[JW Frogen]

Not even those little mints in the lobby?

 

[uscitizen]

Not even those little mints in the lobby?

Not by law. But you can usually get one with a wink or if you are a little kiddie.

I never took one. I was afraid a $13.75 charge for it would show up on my bill.

 

[JW Frogen]

How long do you think it will be before there are credit card swipers on the bottled water dispensers?

"You are not drinking enough water."

"Sorry Doc I am at my credit limit."

 

[SpidermanTuba]

If not how will the healthcare reform impact them if they choose not to accept insurance or medicare/medicaid?

They will wind up with no patients

 

[trams]

When I got Medicare because of disability, My Doctor dropped me. I havent found one that will take Medicare without cash upfront. This is why I no longer take HBP meds Paxil and inhailers for COPD. It ******* BLOWS to have to go to the ER when Im sick.

 

[JW Frogen]

American doctors take the Hippocratic Oath literally. They are Hippocratic fundamentalists.

“Do no harm.”

This, they interpret to mean they never have to help.

 

[Ringel05]

American doctors take the Hippocratic Oath literally. They are Hippocratic fundamentalists.

“Do no harm.”

This, they interpret to mean they never have to help.

Holy shit Batman, you are on a roll this morning! All nighter?

 

[JW Frogen]

I have been known to drink fiery waters from time to time.

 

[Ringel05]

I have been known to drink fiery waters from time to time.

It's time!

 

[Charles Stucker]

If not how will the healthcare reform impact them if they choose not to accept insurance or medicare/medicaid?

They will wind up with no patients

Probably the reverse. Doctors who are truly superior won't need to accept OScamaCare because they will have plenty of other patients. It's the crappy ones who will be happy to take government payments for fraudulent services to indiscriminate fools who believe more government makes everything better.