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From the New York Post:
- "over 52% Of Physicians Have Already Limited The Access That Medicare Patients Have To Their Practices, Or Are Planning To”
Dr. Atlas is a physician and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.WSJ:With the Affordable Care Act, the government has dramatically expanded its authority as final arbiter over health insurance and consequently over access to...
- Nbc/wsj Poll: Only 24% Of Uninsured Think Obamacare Is A Good Idea?????
Uninsured Americans have soured on the Affordable Care Act in the past three months – and that bodes ill for the law’s popularity and financial underpinnings. Less than a quarter—24%—of uninsured Americans think the health care law is...
- Obamacare Seeks To Segregate Patients And Doctors By Race
Obama Had A Dream From the Daily Caller: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under Obamacare — if you both belong to the same race. Obamacare’s spectacular flop of a rollout distracts from its crude calculus that encourages the allocation...
- Hospitals Cutting Thousands Of Jobs
From the USA Today: Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and in-patient visits. The payroll cuts are surprising because...
- 83 Percent Of Doctors Have Considered Quitting Over Obamacare
From the Daily Caller: Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. The DPMA,...
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New York Doctors Sick Over ObamaCare: “It’s basically going to be a race to the bottom”
From the New York Post:
New York doctors are feeling queasy about ObamaCare — and many won’t participate in the new national insurance program because they fear they’ll go broke, The Post has learned.
“ObamaCare is going to send me more patients to see and then cut the payments to provide the care — that’s what’s going to happen,” predicted Donald Moore, a primary-care doctor in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
“I will not accept it.” Moore claims that President Obama made a big mistake by requiring uninsured residents to obtain medical coverage from for-profit insurers through the ObamaCare health exchanges instead of through public health programs like Medicaid.
Under tremendous pressure to keep costs down and profits up, Moore said he’s concerned that commercial insurers will pay doctors less for patient visits and services than either Medicaid or Medicare.
Many doctors, he argues, won’t be able to cover their costs with such skimpy fees. Moore scoffed, “Who’s going to sustain the losses? The insurance companies? It’s basically going to be a race to the bottom.”
Despite a much publicized rollout, many other doctors said they haven’t decided whether to become ObamaCare providers, because they haven’t been notified by insurers or the state about reimbursement rates.
“I have not spoken with anyone who has made a decision to participate in the exchanges. We simply don’t have any information about which we can make a decision,” said Dr. Paul Orloff, president of the New York County Medical Society.
“We have no idea what the reimbursements will be or what the claims-form process will entail.”
- "over 52% Of Physicians Have Already Limited The Access That Medicare Patients Have To Their Practices, Or Are Planning To”
Dr. Atlas is a physician and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.WSJ:With the Affordable Care Act, the government has dramatically expanded its authority as final arbiter over health insurance and consequently over access to...
- Nbc/wsj Poll: Only 24% Of Uninsured Think Obamacare Is A Good Idea?????
Uninsured Americans have soured on the Affordable Care Act in the past three months – and that bodes ill for the law’s popularity and financial underpinnings. Less than a quarter—24%—of uninsured Americans think the health care law is...
- Obamacare Seeks To Segregate Patients And Doctors By Race
Obama Had A Dream From the Daily Caller: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under Obamacare — if you both belong to the same race. Obamacare’s spectacular flop of a rollout distracts from its crude calculus that encourages the allocation...
- Hospitals Cutting Thousands Of Jobs
From the USA Today: Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and in-patient visits. The payroll cuts are surprising because...
- 83 Percent Of Doctors Have Considered Quitting Over Obamacare
From the Daily Caller: Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association. The DPMA,...