antiqueone
• 2 hours ago
As a physician assistant at the age of 61, I see retirement coming fairly soon. I had hoped to work yet for a long time, but all the new rules, regulations and decreased payments make that option entirely less attractive. I already see massive abuse of Medicaid with patients coming in, taking my time for a family of 3 with sore throats they have had for just 1 day. No paying customer does that, but I can't see the paying customer because my time is already taken up by the family.
Imagine going to the grocery store and telling the owner, "I will buy that milk, you must sell it to me, but I don't like your asking price of $3.00 so I will just pay you $2.00 and you must accept that.....oh, and by the way, I'm not going to pay you until next June." How long do you suppose that grocer would stay in business?
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chas1010 antiqueone
• 12 minutes ago
antiqueon,
Why not just do what many other doctors are doing. Work for cash only and not retire. I am sure you would enjoy your profession a lot more. Half the time put in, half the staff, half the paperwork, half the headaches, half the bureaucracy ....... all the satisfaction of helping people with 100 percent more free time.
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Wmn04Ken07
• 2 hours ago
My sister-in-law visited her allergist last week. The appointment ended with her doctor spending the next 15 min. venting about the coming problems associated with Obamacare. He stated that his practice had paid 80 thousand dollars for the technology that is required for patient documentation and he feared that young doctors would be unable to purchase it. He apologized after he vented, but she assured him she didn't mind. Later in the week, she took her 94 year old mother to 2 appointments and they waited 2 hours to see one doctor. The problem. All patients were required to fill out new information forms for the new system so they were slammed. I postponed a follow up appt. with a specialist. Next available appt. is Jan. 16, 2014. Welcome to the "brave new world" of medicine.
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tonymarini
• 2 hours ago
It's astounding that the KoolAider's...the same folks who will unionize and strike at the drop of a hat over THEIR wages...think that medicine is an altruistic pursuit populated by the equivalent of clergy. Wrong! A physician is a service provider who, like anyone else, is trying to maximize the return on their time and effort investment. Certainly any physician holds great sway over the life and wellbeing of his clients and patients. But so does an airline pilot, a bus driver or anyone else who is responsible for the wellbeing and welfare of others during the execution of their job. So why do the Progressives and liberals think that doctors are different? Because in the 'pretendy' world of liberal ideology, doctors are just a means to an end. Liberals can't make their ideological madness work unless they make people malleable. We have seen that we are all malleable when it comes to taxes...so doctors are malleable when it comes to how much they may be expected to earn for their valuable service. They are being converted without their assent to useful idiots for the cause. Except they're not idiots! So, doctors are given few choices to buck the system. They can settle for less income and a greater workload as a concession to the Progressive loonies, and the edification of their "Grand Leaders" or doctors can think about their well being and go Gault. By and large, doctors are smart people and I can't imagine many settling for the former and not defaulting for the latter...or for engaging in the only vestige of capitalism remaining for them...concierge medicine. The Constitution doesn't say that everyone except doctors have freedom and liberty. So long as doctors have the freedom to exit the onerous, humiliating system that is Obamacare, I believe they will take that opportunity. And if our collective national health suffers, too bad!
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