Healthcare mystery shoppers? I can save you the money.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:51 pm
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57824.html
lol, Obama is going to send mystery shoppers to find out if doctors are turning away new medicare/medicaid patients. Lets think about it... medicare pays less, private pays more. Medicaid billing is bureacratic and they can always come back and take their money back, private insurance is better.
The big question is what will he do once he has this "demonizing" information? Raise medicare reimbursement? LOL yea right. Usher in a new healthcare reform act to address the discrimination in the market place? lol even crazier. They'll use it to demonize and shame doctors into taking patients on whom they lose money and don't want. They'll use it to file lawsuits. They'll adjust "policy" that the executive branch controls to punish doctors who "discriminate". They'll go to the medical boards in each state and use existing verbage to challege doctor's licenses and or advocate to add such language that makes it unethical to turn away patients.
It's going to be grand. I'm reminded of the article on concierge medicine, the doctor said you can't force us to take medicare or to not run country club membership only medicine because we aren't your slaves. Apparently we're going to find out if he was right. Practicing medicine is rapidly becoming the most regulated industry in America. What does regulation do to the cost of your care?
lol, Obama is going to send mystery shoppers to find out if doctors are turning away new medicare/medicaid patients. Lets think about it... medicare pays less, private pays more. Medicaid billing is bureacratic and they can always come back and take their money back, private insurance is better.
The big question is what will he do once he has this "demonizing" information? Raise medicare reimbursement? LOL yea right. Usher in a new healthcare reform act to address the discrimination in the market place? lol even crazier. They'll use it to demonize and shame doctors into taking patients on whom they lose money and don't want. They'll use it to file lawsuits. They'll adjust "policy" that the executive branch controls to punish doctors who "discriminate". They'll go to the medical boards in each state and use existing verbage to challege doctor's licenses and or advocate to add such language that makes it unethical to turn away patients.
It's going to be grand. I'm reminded of the article on concierge medicine, the doctor said you can't force us to take medicare or to not run country club membership only medicine because we aren't your slaves. Apparently we're going to find out if he was right. Practicing medicine is rapidly becoming the most regulated industry in America. What does regulation do to the cost of your care?