Posts Tagged ‘medicare’
News starting appearing this week about doctors beginning their exodus out of the Medicare Program. Now this must be great news for all of the Politicos that voted for the plan. After all it is what they voted for, isn’t it? Wasn’t their goal to completely ruin, err I mean run, the health care of every citizen of the United States?
Why are the doctors dropping Medicare? Reduced payments that’s why.
But wait… you didn’t see that the other day? That’s because the “slip stream media” won’t report it very much because it means they lied from the start. It also means the Obama administration lied from the start, along with Pelosi and Reid and every other person that voted for the bill.
The exodus actually began appearing in reports in May – starting with 300 doctors in Texas dropping the plan.
I guess the Seniors are about to start becoming casualties of the law. Hey, I’m one of them!!!!
I gathered a bit of information to write this from a couple of sites.
http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1414105223/More-Texas-doctors-dropping-Medicare-patients
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/21/shocker-doctors-taking-fewer-medicare-patients/
http://lubbockonline.com/life/2010-05-25/many-doctors-limiting-medicare
http://dailydose.righthealth.com/cautions-concerns/more-doctors-dropping-medicare-insurance/
what can I say?
Every time I turn around and look at a variety of polls regarding the Health Care mess, I see roughly the same result. The Citizens of the United States do NOT want the current bill (or is it bills today?) and they want the whole thing thrown in the trash.
Do you agree?
I would be interested in seeing some discussion here as this is a touchy topic and there are many different views.
But, here is what I think.
1 – get rid of the 2,000 plus pages of junk
2 – make changes, ONE at a time without adding anything in – earmarks
3 – drop the barriers for cross border insurance sales
4 – stop the stupid drug advertisements that try to sell you a drug that will “stop the itch” but kill you. Drugs should be the doctor’s choice.
5 – put a reasonable cap on law suit awards
6 – don’t touch Medicare or Medicaid
It seems to me that none of that will cost anyone anything but should reduce rates by a good margin.
And that’s my view