Sounds about right. Obummer care is working on whittling down the geriatric population. My 85 year old mother is no longer able to find doctors taking on new patients. Her standard medic is five months out on making appointments and is an idiot anyway. She needs specialists for her being old and worn out. No way to get to see one, as they are booked up and fewer are joining the local healthcare industry. The solution offered for any issue she contacts the doctor about is for her to visit an urgent care store front. Either the ER or some low end pseudo medical operation
clay On Nov 3, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: > So this morning my unkie posts on FB that he thinks he has pneumonia or > something, calls his doc to come get checked out. His long-time doc left the > place early in the year, some new doc takes the place. Turns out the new doc > took off too, so now he is docless. (He did not check to see why he did not > get notified or turfed off or what, just dropped.) The phone droid tells him > to go to the ER or find a new doc. No docs in town taking new patients > (probably no patients with Medicare or whatever he has). So he is all bent > about that. > > I point out that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." He got > really upset about that, so I expanded on the comment a bit to tell him that > 1) the practice should not have just ejected him with no notice, 2) unless > they did give notice they are still responsible for him and his care with > whatever doc is still around, 3) probably best to go to the ER or a > doc-in-a-box to deal with the acute issue while sorting out with the original > provider. Also that the med bidness is now pretty much like the DMV, esp with > people like him on Medicare or Obamacare or whatever that doesn't pay much, > despite the desires of the docs actually providing care to provide care. > > He was a big Obama/Obamacare supporter, now he is finding his dreams were > somewhat misplaced as reality bites his butt (or lungs, in this case). He > lives in a smallish town, I'm sure all the docs there are getting killed by > low reimbursements, and just don't want to deal with the low-end customers. > > --R > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
