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Doctors will be leaving the profession in droves

Posted: Jul 14, 2012

Doctors are threatening to leave healthcare due to Obamacare. Medicine is going to a cookie-cutter modality and PAs and NPs will be in the near future. Face it our healthcare is in the pitts because doctors are not allowed to treat anymore. The government will be your only healthcare. I am opting out of all this even if I have to pay a penalty. After age 59, you will get palliative care. It is basically a death care plan and getting rid of the elderly people and the very young because it costs too much to care for them. ;

Doctors will not be leaving unless it is to retire. - Where would they go? sm

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With everyone insured they will have more patients and make more money than ever.

You actually believe that? They will get paid LESS - with more patients and stress!

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They will have lots more Medicaid patients, which pays them almost nothing. I know local doctors who are planning early retirement because of Obamacare (I am not the OP). There is already a shortage of doctors. Obamacare is going to be a disaster for the country and healthcare.

Hmm, what will they do then, I wonder - Maybe become MTs! (nm)

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At least they will be paid for every patient they see. That is not - sm

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what is happening now for doctors, but especially for hospitals. Did you know that on average hospitals collect about 4 cents for every dollar that they bill? That is why they have to bill 10-20 times the actual cost to stay in business. Another point is that solo practices are a thing of the past. Keeping up with new equipment and the overhead of running an office alone just don't work for most practices anymore. My docs say they are happy with Obamacare, not perfect, but what is?

Obamacare is a disaster and recognized - for the disaster it is by

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anyone smart enough to do the math. Neurosurgeons will get paid the same as MDs, currently listed as $ 15.00 in Obamacare. Yet they have about a decade more schooling, residency, education. Those that think MDs, any MDs, are going to put up with Obama-monstrosity are very naive. Doctors in my area now refuse Medicaid patients because of the endless red tape and problems getting paid now.

This is not true. Get real. A surgeon may get the - sm

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same compensation for an office visit as a any other doctor, but will be compensated for surgeries and diagnostic tests performed.

I'm not sure I understand this - sm

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I have been trying to find the whole thing to read for myself, but can't find it.

Are you saying that every doctor in the country will be paid the same (i.e. Dr. A in Arizona will get paid the same as Dr. B in Pennsylvania if its an office visit or Dr. C in Tennessee will get paid the same as Dr. D in Minnesota for a face lift?

refusing patients is reprehensible - sm

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Doctors do not refuse Medicaid patients because of "endless red tape and problems getting paid" - they refuse Medicaid patients because reimbursement from private insurance is greater. There are doctors who actually refuse to see Medicare patients for the same reason.

good - sm

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Doctors have been displeased with their incomes for some time now. In response to reduced reimbursement, concierge practices began to spring up in the mid 1990s (you will note this predates Obama).

I have no sympathy for doctors who whine and I cannot care about what doctors threaten. If they want out, I say let them go. Perhaps we will be left with a pool of doctors who are interested in patient care.

where did the responses go? - sm

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Prior to this thread being relocated to the politics board, there were two posts of interest in response to this one. Were they inadvertently removed?

1) http://forum.mtstars.com/412998.html
2) http://forum.mtstars.com/413004.html

My favorite doctor left about 15 years ago because things were so bad - He retired very early

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He start out by cutting down his office staff. I noticed that he was also cutting down on supplies. Then he sold out.

I recently went to a dermatologist who said that over the last dozen years he has gotten so discouraged that he is considering leaving too.

Another one, an allergy doctor, told me that he is depressed. He said that patients don't realize that most doctors really do get into medicine because they care about healing people. Over the last years since everything is computerized, he feels that he has lost what made him become a physician in the first place.

my opinion... - sm

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It's inappropriate for physicians to be telling their patients that they are discouraged and depressed.

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