282Mikado: “Keep your doctor” apparently was a one-way statement. The law did not take away your doctor, true enough; but it did not do anything to preclude a doctor refusing to accept (or continue to accept) a patient. We have all faced the problem of “don’t accept that insurance” position by doctors who are too greedy to accept the coverage limits. .Even Canada faced that back before the Douglas system became a federal mandate. Every time another province adopted the programme, the AMA would spend a half million US dollars campaigning to convince doctors that they would make a million dollars their first year of practice in the US. Most doctors attempting private practice will testify they are more likely to be a million in debt from tooling up costs.
It’s just interesting that Obama is constantly quoted, yet Republican insertions into the PPACA in committee and as oft complained about by folks, hid those provisions in massive amounts ot text in an over-bloated bill.(That nobody could possibly read in its entirety, before the vote.)
I kept my plan (at the lowest annual premium increase in two decades!), my doctors, and my care. My income and resources don’t make me dependent upon, or eligible for, subsidies for my insurance, and thus I’m not, just like Senators who want to be king, picking a plan that’s mandated by the ACA, and it was my wife who never was able to GET a medical plan from her employer, so she didn’t have a platinum parachute to kiss goodbye.
Thomas R. Williams about 9 years ago
“At least I didn’t promise you could your keep doctor” [sic] suggests that Bok’s perception is fuddled.
DrDon1 about 9 years ago
Has Bok stepped outside of his comfort zone?
hippogriff about 9 years ago
282Mikado: “Keep your doctor” apparently was a one-way statement. The law did not take away your doctor, true enough; but it did not do anything to preclude a doctor refusing to accept (or continue to accept) a patient. We have all faced the problem of “don’t accept that insurance” position by doctors who are too greedy to accept the coverage limits. .Even Canada faced that back before the Douglas system became a federal mandate. Every time another province adopted the programme, the AMA would spend a half million US dollars campaigning to convince doctors that they would make a million dollars their first year of practice in the US. Most doctors attempting private practice will testify they are more likely to be a million in debt from tooling up costs.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
It’s just interesting that Obama is constantly quoted, yet Republican insertions into the PPACA in committee and as oft complained about by folks, hid those provisions in massive amounts ot text in an over-bloated bill.(That nobody could possibly read in its entirety, before the vote.)
I kept my plan (at the lowest annual premium increase in two decades!), my doctors, and my care. My income and resources don’t make me dependent upon, or eligible for, subsidies for my insurance, and thus I’m not, just like Senators who want to be king, picking a plan that’s mandated by the ACA, and it was my wife who never was able to GET a medical plan from her employer, so she didn’t have a platinum parachute to kiss goodbye.
Anweir88 about 9 years ago
Do you really not understand the difference between a deliberate lie and being wrong on a prediction?
Stan King about 9 years ago
Chip, at least proof read. “keep your doctor” not “your keep doctor”. Sheesh, you had one job…