ConsumerWatch: Some Covered California Patients Say They Can’t See A Doctor « CBS San Francisco

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 11 months ago to Government
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I have far more sympathy for any single doctor who is being told at the point of the government's gun how to practice medicine, on whom he or she may practice, and what he or she may charge for his or her services, than I do for all the half-wits who thought that government gun would bring them medical care. For them, I have nothing but contempt.
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  • Posted by $ Tap2Golf 9 years, 11 months ago
    What a surprise to see a CBS station in Pelosi`s very own SF Bay Area...report on the failure of Obama care. There is even a quote from a doc at UCSF Med school. I am pleased to see these stories are beginning to surface in Ca. It will be the voiced dissatisfaction from participants in O Care that will bring down the program and those who shoved it down America's throat.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 11 months ago
    The other thing that is happening is the growth of cash-on-the-table concierge medicine. This is an alternative that allows doctors to actually practice medicine...and is an additional factor that absorbs physicians from the government insurance system.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 9 years, 11 months ago
    I'm a bit embarassed, but of all the possible outcomes of Obamacare being forced upon us, the one thing I didn't consider was it collapsing in on itself. And yeah, this report on a CBS station in Pelosi's is surprising.

    You should be careful what you wish for, Nancy. You passed it, we are finding out what's in it, and the more we the people find, the less we the people like. And I don't see a reversal of that trend anytime soon.
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    • Posted by khalling 9 years, 11 months ago
      what will happen first is the govt will wipe out student loans for medical students/residents to work for the system. Eventually you'll end up seeing public health as the only health. Luckily outside the country there is great demand for US doctors due to an alarming increase in expat populations. That will of course diminish as the best doctors (who do not want to work for the govt) flee the US. In the meantime any number of insidious things could occur. Licensing boards could make it harder for docs to move to different states, etc. They could even demand docs accept medicare and public exchanges in order to legally practice. We wait and watch...
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 11 months ago
    leonard Piekoff wrote "death of a profession:medicine' in the 1980's and it has been coming true since lbj got the congress to pass the medicare/medicade bill in 1965. will those who are elected to office ever learn; NO.
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  • Posted by jimslag 9 years, 11 months ago
    I am one of the military veterans who uses TriCare, so I already have a single payer system and it sucks. What the uninformed masses, suckers, or whatever you want to call them, are finding out with O-Care (yes, I find it hard to say his name without cringing) that doctors are hard to find under government payouts. I have lived in various cities since I retired and always have difficulty finding a doctor taking TriCare unless I am near a base of some sort. In Denver, I had 4 doctors in 3 years as they were dropping covering Tricare due to those low payouts and hard to deal with the insurance covering the area. In my current area, even with a base, I am on my third doctor due to them dropping off the system and most of the new possible doctors are closed to new patients due having to many patients on the low payout from the insurance the government uses. I hope the suckers, newly insured enjoy what they voted for through their elected Representatives and Senators and Yes, the President also.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 11 months ago
    What I find just funny as heck... check me if I'm wrong.

    You hear the Fauxbama Administration practically wetting themselves with glee that they've signed up 7 million suckers, er, citizens for their supposedly mandatory health care plan. They call it a "huge success" and claim that "It shows that Americans by and large want this albatr, er, program"...

    Why am I not surprised when I do the math.

    Population of USA= 320 Million folks. 100% compliance would be 320 million people signed up, am I right?

    Since they have 7 million, that gives it a success rate of... 2%.

    Yeah, I always consider 2% of something a roaring success. It must be that "superior" form of math taught in Common Core...
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 11 months ago
    How much more will it take to realize the argument on Obamacare isn't over as our president thinks it is. If so many people have signed up then they shouldn't need anymore to sign up to make it successful. Yah, sure... Time will tell... then what?
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  • Posted by SRS66East 9 years, 11 months ago
    I said from the beginning to anyone who asked me about my thoughts on Obamacare that it was fundamentally untenable due to the lack of Doctors. Our current supply of Doctors was outstripped by demand for their services, without cost being a factor in treatment (Government Insurance) there would be shortages. Now we see the shortages, the good news is that I don't know of many Doctors who aren't willing to see people on a private pay basis.
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    • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 11 months ago
      How many doctors can we have? What prohibits me from administering medical service? Is this a value the Government provided, or an unintended consequence of the most powerful union in practice?
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