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Originally posted by: teechur
Here is the story....
Our doctor of 5 years, closed his practice (and I got this directly from his nurse/wife) because of 2 reasons: a) Medicare changes on payments to doctors and b) ObamaCare information given their office about the new law & payments. She said they were having a difficult time staying afloat with the Medicare payment changes, but once ObamaCare came in, they were absolutely done.
When you consider that a regular (not speciality doctors like Heart surgeons or Plastic surgeons) small practice has the doctor, the nurse (and maybe several nurses), the office staff, and malpractice insurance payments, Workman's comp payments, to cover along with the salary/insurance/etc for all.....they aren't super-rich like we used to think all doctors were in the "old days". I'd go in for an appt and be there for 30 minutes (with 10-15 minutes spent with the doctor) and the insurance would cover $35 for the visit. I used to wonder how he made any money with all the expenses he had and this was before ObamaCare. And....yes, there would be "more" patients....but "more" while being paid "less" is not a positive factor....you'd just be losing money at a faster rate. (And, that is if doctors are accepting new patients. When we lived back West, it took us 2-3 months to find a doctor who was accepting new patients)
Anyway, our doctor got hired by a hospital to be a "Hospitalist", so he totally closed his office/practice and all of his patients had to look for new doctors. (Personally, this would be the only way I would consider being a doctor these days....let the hospital bill the patients and worrying about collecting insurance while you (the doctor) just see patients.)
And, it is a good thing that we still have group insurance...because the new office was not taking new Medicare patients and only accepted DonDiego (who is also on Medicare) because of the group insurance that we have kept (since I am too young to go on Medicare).
You can believe or dis-believe us, but this is truly what happened to DonDiego and me. I'm sure some GPs and Internists are doing okay, but this is the true story of our doctor.
Can you name one single issue with Obamacare that your physician had? I mean just ONE. Because EVERY specific you cited related to Medicare, not to the ACA. Just about your whole post was about Medicare, not Obamacare. Which is why I was correct when I chose to disbelieve DonDiego.
I wouldn't say that you are dishonest if you can't name one single thing, but it would indicate that you are clueless.
