Welcome to ObamaCare, Calpiggy. Reality sucks.

[Ballygrl]

Aside from Medicare, what about Medicaid?  Obamacare takes millions of people, and shoves them into Medicaid.  That's where the "help" comes from.  You're now eligible!!      Good luck getting anybody taking a first glance at you.  $5 paycheck?  Forget it. 

I sounded these alarm bells to my dim rep way back when and he wrote back saying blah blah blah.  We have a shortage of doctors up here in the first place.

A little experiment people reading this thread can try, in your phonebook, go down the entire list of Doctors and call their offices and ask if they take Medicaid. We have people in our County that are forced to go out of County when they need a specialist, and very few PCP's take Medicaid.

[franksolich]

Speaking of medicaid, that is a prime example of the entitlement mindset of many in this country. I have a friend whose wife works for a dentist that sees medicaid patients. From what he's told me the medicaid patients would have to pay some sort of out of pocket expense that was very small. By small, I mean that something that cost my wife around $125 would cost them around $3. They would bitch about having to pay the $3.

Oh yes.

The primitives complain about $3, $5, $10, and $20 co-payments all the time, as if it breaks them to pay that much for something that the insurance company's charged $5000 or somesuch amount.

I suspect however token co-payments are going to evaporate over the next twelve months.

[BlueStateSaint]

Oh yes.

The primitives complain about $3, $5, $10, and $20 co-payments all the time, as if it breaks them to pay that much for something that the insurance company's charged $5000 or somesuch amount.

I suspect however token co-payments are going to evaporate over the next twelve months.

Co-pays eat into their Cheetos and pot budget.

[Rebel]

Yo Peg....

[jtyangel]

Shoving these people on Medicaid irritates the tar out of me. Those are what the truly disabled are on if they are not seniors so the care for those on dialysis, or severely autistic, or incapacitated in some significant way now have those compromises for the leaches. Ugh.

[Undies]

And you will soon be meeting Caddilac Barack's health care surtax.  MMM, mmm, mm.  You rich devil you, soon enouth it will be time to stop your grinin', drop your linen, and stand on line with the rest of the great unwashed.  All aboard for single payer land.  You can see it coming from a mile away once you destroy the public insurance industry. There is no other way to sustain medicare / medicaid.  As with all ponzi schemes you have to continually broaden the base.  Obamacare is just a temproray stop along the way to get you use to the idea of single payer.  Game over.  

Yes, I am aware of the disaster in the works.  Call me Paul Lee Annah, but I still expect a miracle to come along.

[BlueStateSaint]

Yes, I am aware of the disaster in the works.  Call me Paul Lee Annah, but I still expect a miracle to come along.

Strangely enough, so do I, Undies.  We're effin' Americans, for Christ's sake!  We will find a way.

The problem is, 'the way' just might involve lots of bloodshed, which will start with the Left.

[Wineslob]

CaliforniaPeggy (100,220 posts)

I had an MRI today...

Since I became eligible for Medicare, I've used it a lot. It's been great.

But I have to say I'm worried, since I'm hearing that every year, Medicare pays the doctors who accept Medicare patients less and less...

Some doctors have even opted out of accepting Medicare patients.

What's going to happen to these patients?

I'm so glad it's there for me...I want it to continue, and to be there for everyone..

Well, Piggy, I've been seeing LOTS of signs in medical offices with signs saying 'We don't accept Medicare"  Get used to it bitch.

[redwhit]

Strangely enough, so do I, Undies.  We're effin' Americans, for Christ's sake!  We will find a way.

Thank you so much for stating this!  There has been too much doom and gloom and head-hanging recently.  We are frikken Americans!  We always find a way.

Hi 5

[wasp69]

Thank you so much for stating this!  There has been too much doom and gloom and head-hanging recently.  We are frikken Americans!  We always find a way.

Hi 5

No kidding!  We didn't give up when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor, we won't give up now!

 

Seriously, you're right and we should never quit.

[BlueStateSaint]

Thank you so much for stating this!  There has been too much doom and gloom and head-hanging recently.  We are frikken Americans!  We always find a way.

Hi 5

TYVM.  I've got a strange feeling that everything will come out alright.  It's just the path there has a lot of possibilities for mayhem.

Wasp--great reference!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE[/youtube]

And, while I'm at it, I want to relate a story that I heard about a few years ago.

It was the early 60s, and Winston Churchill was scheduled to speak at Sandhurst (military types know what this is).  Well, the cadets were assembled, and Churchill was a bit late.  They didn't get restless, though.  Finally, some time had passed, and Churchill comes into the hall where the speech was, to a standing ovation.  He walked with an older man's dignity to the podium, and the cadets continued their rousing standing ovation.  Finally, they settled and sat down to hear his speech.

"Never quit."

The cadets erupted from their seats, cheering and clapping loudly, giving this man--the leader of their country through its' most difficult time--a loud, raucous, and long standing ovation.  Finally, they returned to their seats.  He continued.

"Never quit."

Once again, the cadets sprang from their seats, cheering wildly.  Some of them knew that they quite possibly wouldn't be alive, or they'd be speaking German, if it wasn't for this man's leadership in World War II.  After a longer time interval than the first, their cadre finally got them back into their seats, and Churchill continued.

"Never, never quit."  He turned to leave the podium.

The cadets roared again, and from their ovation this time, it was obvious to all of the regular British Army officers there that Churchill's speech had ended.  This was the man that they owed their country's very survival to, and they showed their appreciation in their cheering.


Gang, we must listen to Churchill's words that day.

"Never quit!"

[RobJohnson]

Just wait until she tries to finally do something about that pesky Adams Apple.