As Predicted: Physicians Cannot Afford To Accept Obama Care

Doctors Reject Patients Over Low ObamaCare Reimbursements

Prior to Obamacare, our Health Care system was not perfect, but with a few tweaks, it could have been made much better. Tort reform, allowing insurers to compete across state lines, and offering plans that each person could tailor to his/her own needs among other things could have been easily instituted. 

However,  improving the existing system was obviously not the objective. Most of us believed that in no way was it financially feasible for this mix of private insurance operating under government dictates could possibly survive. 

For the past year, all chickens have been coming home to roost, and the sight is not pretty. We've all heard various horror stories of people losing their plans, skyrocketing rates, etc. Now, the predicted doctor shortage is further along and threatening our very survival. 
This too, was predictable. From the beginning, many hospitals refused to accept Obamacare. The fact that more and more physicians are realizing that they cannot afford accept the joke called Obamacare and stay solvent is now leading to a major crisis. Was the entire thing a set-up to lead to socialized medicine? Many believed so from the beginning. 

From The New American: "I cannot accept a plan [in which] potentially commercial-type reimbursement rates were now going to be reimbursed at Medicare rates," Dr. Gerard told NPR. "You have to maintain a certain mix in private practice between the low reimbursers and the high reimbursers to be able to keep the lights on."Gerard believes that ObamaCare will be similar to Medicaid, which has left many patients struggling to find physicians who were willing to accept it because of its low reimbursement rates."I don’t think most physicians know what they’re being reimbursed [under ObamaCare]," Gerard asserted. "Only when they start seeing some of those rates come through will they realize how low the rates are they agreed to."  entire post