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Mason Conservative gives us this news and it could not be more disturbing. It demonstrates just how far to the Left, the present leadership within the Democrat Party has moved.
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
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. . . . . . . . .
you will want to read the full article at Mason Conservative.
