Medicare Problems

[SKATA]

Been a bad week for me so I am venting. First the Integris data breach, next IRS screwed up my tax return, and now Medicare is hitting the doctors.

Just got a letter from my primary doctor and nine doctors in the group that they will no longer accept medicare due to the decrease in reimbursements. What my doctor is suggesting is an alternate program that will cover the difference. Of course I have to pay that and it doesn't appear to be cheap. (numbers to follow). So I pay into medicare and can't use it?

Doing further research, what I see is doctors, med groups, and hospitals start their own insurance programs. Retirees medical costs will soar because each specialty group will have their own program.

Obviously the government is moving to universal health care, controlling the doctors, controlling your treatment(s), supporting all the illegals and others. AKA marxism/communism. Also, they will destroy the rural hospitals and clinics to force people back to the cities so they can control that too. Completely break the system. AMA and websites are all screaming about this. And I also think there will be many doctors that will start refusing Medicare patients. This will be a disaster for the foreseeable future.

Comments welcome

 

[SlugSlinger]

Oh, it’s not just Medicare. My wife’s oncologist quit taking insurance. The oncologist is specialized and doctors like her are nearly impossible to find. The oncologist does offer to provide services for a monthly premium paid to her and then the cost of service on top of that. Essentially bypassing the insurance companies.

Thank you Obamacare.

 

[SKATA]

Oh, it’s not just Medicare. My wife’s oncologist quit taking insurance. The oncologist is specialized and doctors like her are nearly impossible to find. The oncologist does offer to provide services for a monthly premium paid to her and then the cost of service on top of that. Essentially bypassing the insurance companies.

Thank you Obamacare.

If every specialist does this, then who can afford it?

Right now my wife has seen five specialists the past 4 months. Imagine five separate premiums plus charges! We are so screwed.

 

[SlugSlinger]

It’s only getting worse. Specialists are quitting and have been since 2009 or so. My ophthalmologist quit about then and he was in his 50s. He saw what was coming. A family member changed her career choice from reconstructive surgery to cosmetic surgery because she would rather be in a cash business and not have to deal with insurance or the .gov.

Illegals are flooding our healthcare systems and not paying a dime and at the same time the supply of cries is dropping like a rock.

Buckle up!

 

[John6185]

With the illegals we can expect delays, cancellations and outright refusal to treat us due to the workloads levied on Doctors and medial facilities. Already this administration is contemplating seeing illegals at Veterans facilities and veterans already have lengthy waits for appointments.

 

[Big House]

My primary does not accept .gov insurance. I really like her, too. Fortunately, my wife will pick me up on her insurance when I decide to retire.

 

[PBramble]

If my understanding is correct, you may submit your claims to your insurance company to be reimbursed whatever their scheduled payment is. On the flip side, Drs are able to charge lower cash prices because they still make more than the insurance pays them.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Yet ONE MORE REASON I'm swearing off doctors. Yes, I know I am gonna need them for some things but if I can keep from going to them I'm sure gonna do it.

Maybe I'll become a green witch, move to the woods and eat foraged greens and drink moon water. Be about as effective as going to the doctor nowadays, it seems.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Add this to the insufferable abuses we are facing.

Take the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence and substitute those currently in power for the King of Great-Britain, and you can see where we stand today.

For the people out there that said and continue to say that nothing like this could happen in this day and age need to take an honest look. Skepticism, apathy, naïveté, ignorance of current events, and blind obedience are not becoming.

Woody

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

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