From Breitbart.com:
WICHITA, Kan., June 14 (UPI) —
A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies.
Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money reported.
For example, under Nunamaker’s membership plan — also known as “concierge” medicine or “direct primary care” practices — each patient pays a flat monthly fee to have unlimited access to the doctors and any medical service they can provide in the practice, such as stitches or an EKG.
We all know that the cost of healthcare is going to skyrocket under Mr Obama’s dutiful and loving ObakaKare in 2014. It’s doing so already. The cost of healthcare in Fornicalia may increase up to 146%. See article here.
ObamaKare is also causing businesses to shed employees so that they stay under the minimum employee coverage cap of 50, or to cut hours to less than 30 per week.
The Roberts Supreme Court cleared the way for ObamaKare by ruling that its mandate is a tax and not a penalty.
That all said, there is going to be much pain under ObamaKare, for me and you and the American Taxpayer. There will be little pain, of course, for those lampreys who simply want a continuation of their Free Cheese, to include illegal Mexicans and other illegal and parasitic invaders.
First, there will be pain. Much pain, as illustrated above. This introductory period will be a very bad time for the average American Taxpayer to get sick or injured.
Slowly but surely, however, things will come around. Nature abhors a vacuum and the sucking sound created by ObamaKare will produce a void that will be filled by American ingenuity, both lawful and “unlawful” — though I consider ObamaKare and the complete government takeover of American medicine in and of itself unlawful.
First, “concierge” programs like the one above will increase.
There may also be cash-only programs offered solely to the wealthiest of us, with exclusive doctors catering to individuals on the highest of orders.
We may also go back to something of a bartering system.
But this vacuum will be filled, ladies and gentlemen; the “get-around” is only beginning to ferment.
In the meantime, this from Breitbart.com:
U.S. producing ‘abysmally low’ number of primary care doctors
WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) —
Despite a shortage of U.S. primary care doctors, less than 25 percent of new doctors go into this field, and fewer still work in rural areas, researchers say.
Lead study author Dr. Candice Chen, an assistant research professor of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, said the study also found only 4.8 percent of the new primary care physicians set up shop in rural areas.
Currently, the United States is producing primary care physicians at rates that are “abysmally low,” Chen said.
Ladies and gentlemen, the doctor-to-patient ratio in the United States is already execrable. Under ObakaKare with millions more persons to be poured into the equation, and senior doctors retiring at an unprecedented rate because they don’t wish to be involved in more bureaucracy (as the current bureaucracy is stealing their soul), the only possibly immediate result is in fact rationing of services.
As most everyone — at least on the Left Coast — realizes, good luck in even being able to communicate in English with your doctor or nurse.
BZ
