On the good doctor's letter: It's nonsense. She opens by saying she had always provided detailed receipts so the patients could get reimbursed by their insurance. That implies she direct billed the patients, and they had to seek reimbursement from their insurance companies. This won't change. She can continue to set her own rates...if they're higher then the reimbursable amount, the patient foots the difference -- no change. She doesn't get to bill more by opting out. Possibly the insurance company will reimburse less -- but that's the patients cost -- not hers. She can continue to require direct payment. It doesn't affect her cash flow. She may have to give more billing details. Possibly an extra cost -- that she's free to pass that on to her patients! But instead....for the sake of care...she'll refuse her patients the info needed on their receipts to get reimbursed? Huh? Charge for it....if she wants to....but...on principle...she won't allow them to use the insurance they have because she disagrees that they should have to have insurance? The "wingnuts" as you call them - won't flock to her. They may not like the insurance provisions -- but if they're forced to have it -- they'll use it. As they should. And as they'd be eligible to do if she didn't give her little rant about refusing to issue proper receipts (which I'm actually doubtful was a legitimate letter to patients). They will, of course, invite her to conventions, interview her, buy her books, and post her story on a basketball BBS.
I know it's crazy, but I for a second there I actually had a glimmer of hope that basso might be able to make the connection between his personal situation and the larger issue of Federal involvement in the delivery of health care. Of course, that didn't happen.
lol Good try. We are not all less free. In facts many will be more free-- free to have health care despite not having money or insurance through your job. A good try, for your current state of mind, basso. As far as the misguided and obviously right-wing doctor, bless her heart.
I don't want my tax dollars going to support this doctor's future unemployment due to his own stupidity.
Quoted for truth. A person who puts politics, money, or anything else before the betterment of others is not a good doctor. To think, someone else who wanted to go through medical school AND ACTUALLY HELP OTHERS, did not get in because she had his spot. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who goes to medical school and becomes a doctor must understand one thing: you have an obligation to help others. God gave you a gift, and if you choose not to use it, you are a disgrace.
It's going to be all right, folks. As a practitioner of homeopathic medicine, "Dr." Johnston's services can be replicated by anybody possessing an eyedropper, a few sugar pills, and running water.
Ala. - An Alabama proctologist is refusing to treat Republican voters, provoking outrage from the right. He wrote a statement, which he sent out to all of his patients. The statement read in part, "We are sorry to inform you that if you are a Republican voter, we will no longer be able to treat any conditions you may have. We simply don't have the staff or the time to remove all of the sticks, anymore. With the passage of health care reform, we are seeing a new influx of patients who need immediate care. In many cases, the Republican voters we've seen have had these sticks in there for so long that they can just keep them or seek treatment elsewhere."
I wonder what kind of doctors basso chooses in real life, because the doctors he's chosen to write about on this board are some real "winners". If HCR would get rid of these people we'd all be a lot better off.
