The accelerating trend:
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren’t taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.
“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn’t fix Medicare soon, there’ll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress’ promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”
What this means: unless Obama forces doctors to work for a national health service, there simply won’t be enough doctors to provide the care for all the people Obama wants to cover. Once again, liberal theory is coming up hard against reality.
People who don’t work for government tend to be people who don’t want to work for government. Outside of police, firefighters and a selection of the teachers, most people get in to government work because it is undemanding while having ok pay and great benefits. People who want to do demanding work look elsewhere – and people who are willing to trade gold-plated benefits for the chance at really advancing themselves also look elsewhere.
This is why government is filled with time servers – and Obama wants to force our entire health care system in to this. It won’t work – it can’t work. It’ll be a disaster where we’ll have less access to substandard card at a massive cost to the taxpayer.
But that doesn’t matter to Obama and his Democrats – it never was about health care, but about control. They want we, the people, under their thumb and stealing our health care is the best means to do so.
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