posted July 26, 2012 08:33 AM            

People don't stop to consider this fact. Medicine is really broken in many ways, but you do want an intelligent and qualified person when you need one.
O'Bomber care is not the way to fix the brokenness of the medical system.

I don't know how one could, but O'Bomber will make going to the doctor like renewing your license.

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posted July 26, 2012 11:52 AM            

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That post was purely speculative.

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posted July 26, 2012 12:36 PM            

As usual, Ami is right. And as usual, the usual suspect is wrong!

Monday, 02 January 2012 15:05 ObamaCare: More Government, Fewer Doctors
Written by Bob Adelmann

After asking 501 practicing physicians about the future of health care in the United States, The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions’ conclusions were hardly surprising: under ObamaCare:

• More people will demand medical care.

• There will be fewer doctors to handle them.

• Those who do will get paid less.

• Those who do will be subject to increasingly onerous regulations.

In its heavy-handed attempt to provide medical coverage to some 34 million Americans, ObamaCare is going to provide it to them for free. But those “free” services are predictably going to increase the demand for medical care while simultaneously reducing the number of doctors available to supply it.

According to the Deloitte study, only one out of four doctors think ObamaCare will reduce healthcare costs, while half of them expect access to such care to be increasingly restricted. Those surveyed think there will be fewer hospitals and fewer physicians. And many of those remaining are likely to take administrative positions in the healthcare industry rather than continuing to provide hands-on primary care of patients.

Three-quarters think that as primary care doctors get busier, patients needing immediate attention will increasingly be sent to emergency rooms, which is likely to extend waiting times there as well. Four out of five are certain that it will be increasingly difficult for their patients to obtain appointments on a timely basis, and those patients will increasingly be forced to seek the services of “mid-level” health care from nurse practitioners and para-medical providers.

The doctors surveyed also are persuaded that because of ObamaCare the “best and brightest” coming into the workforce will likely avoid the healthcare industry. The survey also showed that the older doctors are increasingly looking forward to retiring rather than having to deal with the mass of new regulations and restrictions that are coming from ObamaCare.

This study reflects doctors’ attitudes shown in similar recent studies. For instance, the Fairfield County Medical Association in Connecticut looked at the pending cut in physicians’ reimbursements. In May of 2010 doctors were anticipating a pay cut of 21 percent. If they were implemented at the time, Fairfield estimated that 41 percent of county doctors would stop taking new Medicare patients, and one out of every four would drop Medicare altogether.

Those cuts weren’t implemented at the time, but delayed until January 1, 2012, and the reduction in Medicare reimbursement isn’t 21 percent but 29 percent. Physicians Practice estimated that a physician grossing $1 million from Medicare with 60 percent overhead would see his net income drop by almost 75 percent. As noted, “All medical practices are impacted by Medicare cuts, as most [doctors] tie their fee schedules to Medicare…Cuts to reimbursement will reduce your net income…and the quality of patient care your practice can provide.”

ObamaCare’s regulations are stifling those who are determined to stay in the health care industry. There’s the “Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute” which will examine the “clinical effectiveness of medical treatments, procedures, drugs, and medical devices [resulting in] incentives [or] penalties [or more] regulatory requirements.”

There’s the Independent Payment Advisory Board that’s tasked with reducing “the per capital growth rate in Medicare spending [which] would doubtless reduce Medicare physician payment[s]” even further.

And there’s the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative which will require that physicians be “burdened with [additional] time-consuming compliance and reporting requirements.”

Another study, this one done by Athena Health, showed that 79 percent of physicians are “less optimistic about the future of medicine [while] 66 percent indicated that they would consider dropping out of government health programs, and 53 percent would consider opting out of insurance altogether.”

As Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Health Policy at The Heritage Foundation, put it: “ObamaCare…entrenches the worst parts of today’s third-party payment system.”

posted July 26, 2012 01:24 PM            

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As usual, Ami is right. And as usual, the usual suspect is wrong!

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posted July 26, 2012 02:35 PM            

Speculation is speculation guys. That's it. There is no article to help you make it less than speculation. Certainly not one that polled just 501 doctors.

Memphis Doctor on Obamacare: Put Politics Aside, Focus On Facts

.....A doctor's perspective on ObamaCare and the Supreme Court

It’s hard to know what to make of these findings. According to Deloitte’s supporting materials, of the 16,537 physicians the firm contacted, 501 completed the survey. That’s a response rate of barely 3 percent. It’s not clear whom this tiny sample really represents.

A better way to gauge these issues is to examine how physicians and the organizations which represent them actually behaved during last year’s health reform. One wouldn’t know from Pipes’ article that the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Osteopathic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American College of Cardiology all endorsed last year’s health reform. These groups represent hundreds of thousands of physicians across a wide range of medical sub-specialties.

A key reason for these endorsements was the widespread recognition that our current health care system works poorly from the perspective of both physicians and patients – and the understanding that the new law was an important step in building a more effective health care system.

No, Doctors Don't Hate Obamacare

posted July 26, 2012 05:01 PM            

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,”
President Obama, September 12, 2008

When does your home become part of your health care? After 2012!

Your vote counts big time in 2012, make sure you and all your friends and family know about this!

HOME SALES TAX

I thought you might find this interesting.
The National Association of Realtors is all over this and working to get it repealed before it takes effect. But, I am very pleased we aren't the only ones who know about this ploy to steal billions from unsuspecting homeowners.

How many realtors do you think will vote Democratic in 2012?

Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8% sales tax on it? That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc. When did this happen? It's in the health care bill, -- and it goes into effect in 2013. Why 2013? Could it be so that it doesn’t come to light until after the 2012 elections? So, this is ‘change you can believe in’?

Under the new health care bill all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% sales tax.

If you sell a $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to screw the retiring generation, -- who often downsize their homes. Does this make your November, 2012 vote more important?
Oh, you weren't aware that this was in the Health Care bill? Guess what; you aren't alone! There are more than a few members of Congress that weren't aware of it either.

ObamaCare Flatlines: ObamaCare Taxes Home Sales

This new ObamaCare tax is the first time the government will apply a 3.8 percent tax on unearned income. This new tax on home sales and unearned income and other Medicare taxes raise taxes more than $210 billion to pay for ObamaCare. The National Association of Realtors called this new Medicare tax on unearned income “destructive” and “ill-advised” and warned it would hurt job creation.
http://www.gop.gov/blog/10/04/08/obamacare-flatlines-obamacare-taxes-home

posted July 26, 2012 06:41 PM            

Imagine too that the usual suspect believes that finding one...that's right 1 doctor who thinks O'BomberCare is the best thing since the invention of sliced bread carries equal weight to the statistical report of more than 500 doctors who oppose O'BomberCare.

I suppose it backs up the word on the street that O'Bomber Kool-Aid swillers become irrational and lose their ability to correctly analyze data.

posted July 26, 2012 07:33 PM            

Where was your reading comprehension, dear Jwhop, when I posted all the groups that supported the reform act? I put the words up there for you. That whole list of doctor's associations representing thousands of doctors. Not to mention the obviously stupid attempt on your part to make 500 doctors out as significant in a field of thousands.

posted July 26, 2012 08:03 PM            

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Some things never change...like the usual suspects ability to comprehend what he reads. Imagine, the usual suspect thinks the was for him.

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posted July 27, 2012 06:33 AM            

Real doctors oppose O'BomberCare.

Oh and by the way, the 3.8% tax the O'BomberCare muggers have placed on the sale of residential real estate IS NOT indexed for inflation. Last time the Socialist demoscats tried to rip off high income earners we got the "Alternative Minimum Tax". Soon, because of inflation, lots and lots and lots of middle class citizens were caught in the Socialist's web of deceit, lies and ripoffs and have to pay the tax.

posted July 27, 2012 01:59 PM            

You really shouldn't dabble in things you know nothing about. If that rule was rigidly enforced against you acoustic, you'd have nothing to say whatsoever.

posted July 27, 2012 04:11 PM            

Show me the doctors quitting in protest. Show me the insurance company's disdain. You can't, because it's just not there. It's imaginary...just like MOST of your positions here.

posted July 27, 2012 04:58 PM            

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posted July 29, 2012 08:43 AM            

Ami is right. O'BomberCare is going to result in a doctor shortage. Millions more people...including illegal aliens will have "health insurance" but they won't have doctors to deliver "HEALTH CARE" for them.

The usual suspects still haven't deciphered the difference between "health insurance" and "health care". But then, those who are neurological flat-liners are seldom able to decipher anything and those are Bomber's prime supporters. You know, birds of a feather with O'Bomber, another neurological flat-liner.

Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law
By ANNIE LOWREY and ROBERT PEAR
July 28, 2012

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In the Inland Empire, an economically depressed region in Southern California, President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there will be enough doctors to meet the area’s needs. There are not enough now.

posted July 29, 2012 05:43 PM            

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*slaps self*

i agree, ami, it is hysterical when someone so rudely and conceitedly tries to shame someone for the very thing they have done.

ag understood perfectly who the thumbs up was for, but jwhop missed the point completely.

posted July 29, 2012 06:47 PM            

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posted July 30, 2012 12:25 PM            

I didn't go to the AMA for information on Obamacare. I posted the professional medical groups that were for the reform act. Then I went back, and proved that they were doctors, because Jwhop lamely wanted to make them out as simply bureaucrats.

I don't know the future of healthcare in America, but I also know that YOU and JWHOP don't either. We don't have crystal balls.

posted July 30, 2012 12:36 PM            

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Ami, if you understood the concept of "sheeple," you'd know that YOU fit the bill. You want to impeach mainstream media whilst championing Rush Limbaugh. You don't seem to understand the extreme irony of your position.

I didn't go to the AMA for information on Obamacare. I posted the professional medical groups that were [b]for the reform act. Then I went back, and proved that they were doctors, because Jwhop lamely wanted to make them out as simply bureaucrats.

I don't know the future of healthcare in America, but I also know that YOU and JWHOP don't either. We don't have crystal balls.

Be smarter, or I'm gonna be tougher on you.[/B]

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posted July 30, 2012 02:35 PM            

Finally, a true statement from the usual suspect.