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My doctor is considering dropping his medicare patients because of the low payments. I have been seeing him for 20 years, with and without insurance, as I could afford coverage (sometimes $1,200 a month). He is a decent doctor and has all of my records.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America doesn't take Medicare or Medicaid patients as they say reimbursement is too low. Two tier healthcare in America ? By the way, CTCA spends millions in advertisement of their services, millions.....
Its a tax, no its a right, no its OBAMACARE
Soon the U.S.A. will resemble the socialist European model of 30 hr work weeks with no incentives unless your a big Union trade- capitalist corporation. They get the Obama EZpass while the rest of US will pay out the a$$.
You say that like being like Europe is a bad thing.
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I've had to switch Dr's quite a lot over the years. They used to fall in and out of "physician groups" or cancel their contracts with certain carriers or not meet the requirements to be part of the "super special in network group" the insurance companies likes to play around with.
Cry about a lot of things when it comes to health care, but not because you might have to change Dr's. That's just a fact of life.
This does happen fairly often. The big issue I've seen is a good number of doctors switching to case based practices rather than going through insurance. I imagine we'll see more and more practices doing that as we get closer and closer to 2014.
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Suggest you start checking the health care cost calulators that are starting to show up on the web. Checked out the one on the Kaiser site and coverage for my wife and I will drop by $1500 a year with the same policy I have now.
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Bait and switch? So now I have to look forward to shopping for insurance just like everything else. We decided to switch coverage on our full-timer's RV insurance. 1800.00 a year was our cost. Oh.. yeah.. we found the same coverage with a different company for 1300.00 so we made the switch. First year costs.. When we got the renewal coverage.... 2200.00. There is no way health insurance rates are going down permanently when the bills for this fiasco start rolling in....
Untold thousands of dollars on a "payment plan" which an average American can't afford? Don't you realize that many people avoid buying a product precisely because of a "payment plan" which they can't afford?
Oh really? Then why did all these folks buy homes they can't afford? Cars they can't afford? They can afford 60" big screens and iphones and ipads and any other thing that trips there trigger but if anybody dare mention they try and pay off their hospital bill it is beyond comprehension to many. More a choice. A choice that is made by those who just have no issue letting others pay for it because after all the "not fair" memo has been floated and it's just not fair that somebody else has insurance and doesn't have to pay the whole bill. Unbelievable!!!
Oh really? Then why did all these folks buy homes they can't afford? Cars they can't afford? They can afford 60" big screens and iphones and ipads and any other thing that trips there trigger but if anybody dare mention they try and pay off their hospital bill it is beyond comprehension to many. More a choice. A choice that is made by those who just have no issue letting others pay for it because after all the "not fair" memo has been floated and it's just not fair that somebody else has insurance and doesn't have to pay the whole bill. Unbelievable!!!
A long stay at the hospital because of a serious problem can cost more than the sum of all the items that you mentioned added together. And quite possibly 2 or 3 times that sum.
But what do you find unfair? That someone who has insurance has those costs covered? Or that they don't have insurance? It isn't clear from what you are posting.
Umm no you're are wrong. Nothing has changed for the company.
Have you asked them? Insurance premiums don't normally go up 100% in one year. Nothing may have changed for the company, they just reduce the amount of the health insurance premium that they previously paid for you and have you pay the full premium instead.
By the way, a good family health insurance plan today costs around $16k per year. Could be that you were asked to pay the actual cost of it for next year.
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