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01-05-2010, 09:30 AM
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Okey dokey, there are some 3,000 medicare patients at this clinic who now must pay cash if they wish to continue seeing their doc. Here's the link, draw your own conclusions and contact your representative if you think health care will improve under the currently proposed plan (and then check out Singapore, where the healthplan has much we can learn from):
http://healthcare.nationalreview.com...MzMDEwODUzYzY= |
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01-05-2010, 10:12 AM
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this is just flat out horrible!
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01-05-2010, 12:23 PM
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Not the kind of innovation we had come to expect from Mayo.....four letter words come to mind.
paula
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01-05-2010, 01:00 PM
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If I read it right, it is only dropping Medicare for primary care. It doesn't say anything about specialized care. Primary care has always been poorly reimbursed because (reimbursement is based on proceedured not outcomes or number of patients cared for) it does fewer billable procedures. It may not be as bad as it looks at first glance.
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01-05-2010, 01:09 PM
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Pam -I must admit to a knee-jerk reaction! Thanks for being level headed!
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Carey “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony |
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01-05-2010, 01:15 PM
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Here's a little more information. Reimbursement methods will have to be reformed if we are ever going to get control of escalating medical costs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aHoYSI84VdL0 |
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