Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients

You would think that when your party is burying a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want to that hole get deeper faster.  But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Forced by government decree, mind you.  A birdie sent me this:

FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.  

She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors' costs.  She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.  

Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don't admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations.  The Obamacare law and regulations are causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, drop many doctors and hospitals. The HHS internal forecast is 93 million Americans would lose their health insurance due to the Obamacare law and rules about adequacy of insurance.

Many more people will be uninsured.   The penalties for being uninsured start at $95 per year, but the penalties can't be collected by the IRS if a person does not have a tax refund to attach.  

The out of pocket costs required by Obamacare's Silver Plan for a non-smoking mother and father with two children making a gross before income taxes of $50,000 (roughly average salary for VA) would be $13,765 per year including the deductible of $10,400.  That's 28% of their gross income -- not very affordable and about the same as guidelines for a mortgage payment.  For such a family making $100,000 of gross income, The cost would be $21,431 including the deductible of $12,700, or 21% of gross income.   

With such high deductibles doctors are stuck with trying to collect cash from the patients, even at regulated charge structures.  Thus is makes sense for primary care doctors not to participate in Obamacare, medicare and medicaid.  They should encourage patients to participate in Concierge Care and insurance programs run by the doctors themselves with patients who can do simple math.  Patients can take out catastrophic insurance with high deductibles for major surgeries.  Tax deductability for individual medical savings accounts would make health care more affordable.  

The head of Obamacare programs, Berwick, loves the socialized medical system in the UK, but never mentions that malpractice insurance is minimal.  In the UK, panels of doctors review and approve malpractice awards, rather than emotional juries misled by trial lawyers.  Malpractice reform like this with caps on malpractice awards would go a long way in making health care affordable.

I hope physicians rise up and speak out for common sense, protecting quality medical care in the US and giving patients freedom to choose

 

THIS along with the fact that Terry McAuliffe has already said he'd go to the government shutdown mat to get a state exchange in Virginia.  Unbelievable.  Combine the chaos of thousands of people across Virginia losing their health insurance, we are going to add to that on the state level by forcing doctors to accept patients they can't afford to help?  Unbelievable.  Dark days are ahead, but there is still time.    Three days to make sure this does not happen.  

Democrats in Virginia will drive up health care costs, drive doctors out of the state, and then drive health care costs up even more because there will not be enough doctors practicing in the state.  

Vote Cuccinelli.

Comments

[Diggs]

They will definitely need to pass a law first, banning doctors from moving out of state and setting up a practice in a more free state.
THEN they can tell doctors that they are slaves, and that the legislators are their new massuh.

[Robert Casale]

I am 78 on Medicare and need my insurance more now than ever. (medicare is good but we should have never passed the bill. We should have been looking out for ourselves, buying our own insurance, For those who cannot afford it we always helped, I was born free as my parents didn't have the money in 1935.
No business should be told by the government who they must sell or service and they should not dictate the charges, this is a Capitalistic country. We are not interested is total socialism with a goal toward communism. Forcing people to do what they do not want to within the law is Communism.

[Helio]

Obama is having a blast. He accomplished what he has planned for along time, the total disruption of the Free american System. He is not mad because Obamacare is full of problems and causing more trouble than good, instead he and his socialist supporters are happy that everything is a big mess. Out of the mess and destruction of the free existing medical system,will come a total dependency on the Goverment since the insurance companies cease to exist as we know them and doctors will enter into the endarger species list.

[Granpa Routy]

What they don't get is that this is not Cuba.
"involuntary servitude".
Want to BET?

[Jojo]

I wouldn't count on the IRS only being able to collect the fine if you're owed a refund. Obamacare gives the IRS live access into everyone's checking and savings accounts. Also, I found an article where this man entered his personal information, got sticker shock and opted to NOT buy the insurance and was informed that his fine would be $4540.00. If he refused to pay it, the IRS would put a lien against his house. The government will get their money one way or another. I suggest that people keep their bank accounts low.

[Zeek]

Kunta Kinte, MD.

[Jim siler]

Nazi Germany started out the same way and we got the head of the Nazis running the show right now Barack Obama and his inch when Harry Reid Nancy Pelosi and if y'all read farther into not only healthcare Obama is firing generals Colonels and majors out of the military if they don't agree with anything he asks Same thing took place in Germany before Hitler took over and started a world war and Obama is doing the same thing

[TheWild Webster]

Directive 10-289!

[Jim Semple]

No one ever accused Democrats as Smart. Simply Dangerous. They are following the Communist Manifesto and the ideals of National Socialism NAZI policies,

Secure the means of Production, Control the Banks, Nationalize Health Care and Agriculture OH and get the guns from those crazy right wing Christians.

They may succeed with help from their socialist friends in China, Iran and the Middle East.

It is rumored that the Obama Administration has offered the resources of the Midwest food oil coal to China in exchange for our debt to China.

The Chinese want Obama to first disarm the American People first.

Perhaps this is why Homeland Security now has more bullets and guns and armor than used in the Iraq War.

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