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Flatulo

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25. I expect yet more doctors will start refusing Medicare patients. Isn't $700b coming from provider

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 07:10 PM

Nov 2013

reimbursements as part of the ACA to go towards subsidies?

I've been hearing of doctors who refuse to accept any insurance whatsoever. Supposedly they're spending inordinate amounts of time fighting to get reimbursed from a bazillion different insurers and it's just not worth the trouble anymore. So they form a small self-insured co-op, kind of like a shoppers club and you pay them $5,000 or whatever per year. But that membership gets you same day service and covers all in-office procedures, lab work, surgery, etc. Not sure how they would handle hospitalization.

In general, I'm I'm favor of things that bypass the insurers, who add no value to health care delivery.

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my doctor and health care. [View all] DesertFlower Nov 2013 OP

I'm a doctor too. I don't get Drs who are opposed to patients getting care. Pinkflamingo Nov 2013 #1

glad it's working. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #2

Medicare definitely needs to update its fee schedule but even Cleita Nov 2013 #4

i agree. nt DesertFlower Nov 2013 #6

Bless you, Doctor... fadedrose Nov 2013 #10

If everyone were enrolled in Medicare for basic health care, Cleita Nov 2013 #3

exactly. there would still DesertFlower Nov 2013 #7

You have a good Doc Joey Liberal Nov 2013 #5

my doc is gay -- obvioulsy gay, but it DesertFlower Nov 2013 #9

Yes you are lucky... fadedrose Nov 2013 #8

i was watching ed schultz the other day. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #11

Notice he said "progressives," and not democrats... fadedrose Nov 2013 #12

exactly. nt DesertFlower Nov 2013 #13

we had the house as well as the senate and the WH and still littlewolf Nov 2013 #15

we couldn't even get DesertFlower Nov 2013 #18

This was at the end of Bush's 2 terms fadedrose Nov 2013 #23

exactly. nt DesertFlower Nov 2013 #28

I'm a Physician Assistant, and my patient population is mostly homeless. Aristus Nov 2013 #14

In Anchorage, primary care doctors who won't take Medicare Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #16

and what are the seniors supposed to do? DesertFlower Nov 2013 #20

I am lucky that I was an established patient at my clinic Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #24

it was not obama that did not go all the way. we gotta remember what exactly happened way back when seabeyond Nov 2013 #17

Patients scramble after AARP Medicare Advantage plans drop providers jtuck004 Nov 2013 #19

some links re. medicare advantage plans. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #22

Unfortunately, it's a lot harder than saying Medicare for All... Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 #21

those medicare supplemental plans (also called Medigap) policies are DesertFlower Nov 2013 #27

Oregon seems to have figured it out. They enrolled 50,000 people into Medicaid while the jtuck004 Nov 2013 #29

It's one state against an entire country. Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 #33

But that really shows why states needed to form their own marketplace. Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 #34

Actually two states. But the principal is the same. Without all the overhead that the ACA jtuck004 Nov 2013 #35

vermont goes single payer. DesertFlower Nov 2013 #31

I expect yet more doctors will start refusing Medicare patients. Isn't $700b coming from provider Flatulo Nov 2013 #25

Robot physicians will save the day ErikJ Nov 2013 #26

Yes, that DaVinci surgical robot looks amazing. To bad I see the TV lawyers already jumping onto Flatulo Nov 2013 #30

Why does your doc hate Obama? bigwillq Nov 2013 #32