What a staggering rejection: 83% of physicians polled are thinking about retiring because of obamacare.
Doctors Despair Over ObamacareThe Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation conducted a faxed survey of random doctors in May 2012. In the survey, it is clearly delineated that the medical system as it is changing is discouraging doctors from practicing. 83% of the doctors said that current changes made them think about quitting, and 90% of them thought the path of the medical field currently was wrong.
They apparently feel that their Hippocratic oaths are being compromised; 61% of them feel that Hippocratic ethics are getting more difficult to practice, which is troubling, since one of the cardinal parts of the oath is the phrase “I will keep them from harm and injustice.”
85% of the doctors surveyed felt that the patient-physician relationship is declining. 37% of the doctors said they were just squeaking by, and 39% said things would get worse over the next five years.
The doctors were virtually unanimous that the government is at fault for medicine being on the wrong track, and feel that corporate medicine is trying to destroy private practice. The highest numbers ever recorded are opting out of Medicare and Medicaid. They feel the best way to attack the current problems is to restore autonomy, eliminate government involvement, increase patient responsibility and implement free market reforms.
An orthopedist from Texas stated, “I have been in practice for 28 years and medicine is now the worst for doctors it has ever been and I don’t see it getting any better. We needed insurance reform not health care reform, we got neither.”
A general surgeon from Georgia said, “The best chance for controlling cost is limiting government interference and increasing patient responsibility for cost. If the patient pays at time of service and files an insurance claim on their own, it reduces the likelihood of superfluous utilization, AND reduces insurance company denials since the patient is following up on their own claim. Also, removing insurance purchasing from employers makes insurers responsible to policy holder, not employers.”
Another general surgeon from Illinois said, “Less government will mean better and less expensive medical care. Government is the problem. Are there any long term Government run programs that aren’t riddled with inefficiency and corruption?”
A dermatologist from Missouri said, “Obamacare will be the ultimate [end] of the solo practitioner and small practices.”
Read the entire article at Breitbart.
it is bad bad bad.
several of the doctors i know are thinking about retiring too.
Damn.
Great. No doctors. Thanks Obama.
Yep.
I’m calling bullshit. Doctors and hospitals will find ample ways to scam the system and bill the shit out of the taxpayers just like they do now with insurance companies. Cry me a fuckin’ river, doctors! Fuck all y’all.
Where’s the Fuck You smilie?
good doctors don’t do that and already loose money on every medicare patient they see already. many doctors are already having to drop their medicare patients because of that. they loose money because the administrative costs of dealing with the bureaucratic bullshit the government requires are higher than they are reimbursed.
Plus – if that were the case – so much for the idea of obama care containing costs
Erinyes: That smilie was lost in the move.
I’m looking for a vid…
Patti: I heard a lot of doctors were dropping their medicare patients even before obamacare because they were losing money… but obamacare was supposed to mean the end of medicare as we know it… I’m so confused.
considering the amount of money they had to cut from medicare to make the numbers look good enough for their twisting and turning to get this thing passed, it is the end of medicare as we know it.
hold on granny – they are going to shove you right off that cliff.
the puke emote got lost too :(
Hold on, the puke smiley is making a comeback. I believe we need it…
I wrote about doctors being pissed off and wanting to quit a few years back when Very Cute Doctor started explaining what Obamacare would mean to doctors, nurses, and patients. Then I read the bill myself and I
. There will be MORE lawsuits with Obamacare instead of fewer because those charged with caring for us, those who have pledged to act in our best interest, will have their hands tied by the government. It’s a no win situation we cannot afford to have in place!
I remember your post! It was very good, though frightening.