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Sat Nov-08-08 09:40 PM
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| 15. Doctors are now dropping Medicare patients, |
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even those they've had for years, all the while knowing that they'll have great difficulty in finding another doctor who'll accept Medicare at a time when they often will need care more and more. That is unconscionable and inexcusable.
The vast majority of doctors nowadays won't even consider seeing you without insurance, period, and they then want their money NOW and are, like hospitals, very quick to send you to collections regardless of your circumstances. I'm sorry, but that's also unconscionable. Doctors were this way before Bush, frankly.
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| -Tardy Medicare reimbursements are hurting doctors in California, Nevada and Hawaii |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 07:34 PM |
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Just Bush trying to make single payer look bad |
pending |
Nov-08-08 07:41 PM |
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Maybe |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 08:08 PM |
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There are always jobs for doctors, |
liberalhistorian |
Nov-08-08 08:36 PM |
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Doctors make choices, and rightly so. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 10:10 PM |
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And what about the people who cannot find |
liberalhistorian |
Nov-08-08 10:31 PM |
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So docs should pay to practice? |
harpboy_ak |
Nov-08-08 10:39 PM |
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They'll have to move to new homes. |
bmbmd |
Nov-11-08 12:47 PM |
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My husband is a family doc |
Mojorabbit |
Nov-08-08 10:49 PM |
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What a dreadful mess! |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Nov-08-08 07:52 PM |
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Yep. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 08:14 PM |
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The LA Times is famous for pursuing this sort of story... |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Nov-08-08 08:18 PM |
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My dear CP |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 08:31 PM |
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By May, doctors were supposed to be using a new universal identification number |
Egnever |
Nov-08-08 08:06 PM |
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Huh? |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 08:19 PM |
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I would wager a lot of them haven't |
liberalhistorian |
Nov-08-08 08:38 PM |
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this line specificaly gives me pause |
Egnever |
Nov-08-08 09:09 PM |
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Universal Free Healthcare for all. NT |
curse of greyface |
Nov-08-08 09:01 PM |
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What a totally uncalled for disrespect for doctors who are not paid |
MasonJar |
Nov-08-08 09:05 PM |
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Doctors are now dropping Medicare patients, |
liberalhistorian |
Nov-08-08 09:40 PM |
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Doctors don't want to drop Medicare patients. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 10:35 PM |
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my doctor takes Medicare |
CountAllVotes |
Nov-09-08 07:24 AM |
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MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT |
riancooks |
Nov-25-08 10:34 PM |
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Couldn't have anything to do with the "Bushing" of Medicare, could it?.... |
defendandprotect |
Nov-08-08 09:33 PM |
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Yes, it could. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 10:13 PM |
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The lenghts these destroyers will go to is simply unbelievable --!!! |
defendandprotect |
Nov-08-08 11:18 PM |
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*ss has found another way to stop a national health care plan by |
jwirr |
Nov-08-08 10:19 PM |
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You may be right. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-08-08 10:42 PM |
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Why just THESE states? Why not, say, TEXAS? |
kestrel91316 |
Nov-08-08 11:06 PM |
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Yeah ... what should we make of that--???? |
defendandprotect |
Nov-08-08 11:20 PM |
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Maybe it's not just 3 states. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-09-08 12:24 AM |
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Believe me, it's happening in a lot of other states |
liberalhistorian |
Nov-09-08 09:14 AM |
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Not to mention radiologists in New Jersey |
rocknation |
Nov-08-08 11:35 PM |
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The federal government can and should meet its obligations |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-09-08 12:20 AM |
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A shocking and appalling story: |
Tracer |
Nov-09-08 06:02 AM |
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I don't understand. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-09-08 12:08 PM |
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This was incomprehensible to me also, until I started educating myself: |
Tracer |
Nov-10-08 07:15 AM |
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Thanks for the link, |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-11-08 01:21 AM |
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Geez, do you think military CONtractors... |
not fooled |
Nov-09-08 08:06 PM |
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This has ripple effects all down the line |
laptoprepairguy |
Nov-09-08 08:25 PM |
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That's interesting. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-11-08 11:37 AM |
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Let me clear a few things up |
dbackjon |
Nov-09-08 08:29 PM |
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Thanks for the clarification. |
Lionel Mandrake |
Nov-11-08 11:45 AM |
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