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Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
When my cousin in Texas turned 65 a few years ago, it took her months to find a doctor who would accept them as Medicare patients. Another friend in AL had a similar experience when her doctor dumped all his Medicare patients. It also took her months to find a new doctor and then another 2 months for her first appointment. She was a newly diagnosed diabetic, too.
The problem, in my humble and very important opinion, is not Medicare, Medicaid it's the doctors. They want to become millionaires before they're 50 and all the perks (too large of a house, Jag, Benz, Harvard Med for the kids), pay their nursing staff their $60k salary, etc, etc, etc. Why would they uphold their oath when it's more beneficial not to.
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
At this rate our seniors are going to have a very hard time finding a doctor.
Hey, maybe that was the plan???
Maybe this is the new "death panel".
Plan:
We will put the Drs in a terrible situation.
They will not take care of Seniors.
They will die off and Social Security will be solved!
heeheee, we will just blame it all on the doctors..
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
At this rate our seniors are going to have a very hard time finding a doctor.
Ok they can fight over those fewer and fewer customers who can afford to pay more than medicare can.
Do you think those with health insurance is growing in Texas?......LOL
Those doctors that do take medicare will see more demand.
That demand will be filled by doctors treating more patients or over the longer term more doctors, and PAs, and nurse practicioners entering the market place.
Ok they can fight over those fewer and fewer customers who can afford to pay more than medicare can.
Do you think those with health insurance is growing in Texas?......LOL
Those doctors that do take medicare will see more demand.
That demand will be filled by doctors treating more patients or over the longer term more doctors, and PAs, and nurse practicioners entering the market place.
Again just another example of the Social Engineers not understanding the capitalist markets. It's happening here in California as well. I know a medical biller that has said a lot of Doctors are dropping medicare because of the crappy payments.
My parents' dentist is cutting his hours (which means his staff's hours and thus salaries will be cut too) because of the increased taxes above $200,000. According to him, making that extra money is pointless as most of it is taxed anyway, why not just make UP TO $200,000 and keep most of it. He knows a lot of doctors who are doing that because of the new government bills.
Hey, maybe that was the plan???
Maybe this is the new "death panel".
Plan:
We will put the Drs in a terrible situation.
They will not take care of Seniors.
They will die off and Social Security will be solved!
heeheee, we will just blame it all on the doctors..
Would love to say that Republicans didn't want that situation, but if you look at their track record you're probably right.
Republicans want Seniors to die off and to blame the doctors, so that they can then claim the end benefit of fixing those problems.
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