Comments on: Bend Over - Medicare Is Fluffed And Ready http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/ A Cynical Look At Medical School and Medical Training Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Decider http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-9187 Decider Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:08:18 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-9187 Its coming ladies and gents. In 5 yrs 60 million americans will enter Medicare. Where will they pull the money out of this time? The past decade with its persistent(ternderization)cuts in reimbursement will soften the final blow. Every year it becomes more difficult to cover your expenses. Did you read the Commonwealth Foundation Study? It costs Medicare on average $1000 more per year to treat an HMO/Medicare patient. I thought they were suppose to save money. On the contrary, they look for ways to add higher coding diagnosis to they elderly patients to then extract it from medicare. The end is near. Run for that MBA now Its coming ladies and gents. In 5 yrs 60 million americans will enter Medicare. Where will they pull the money out of this time? The past decade with its persistent(ternderization)cuts in reimbursement will soften the final blow. Every year it becomes more difficult to cover your expenses.
Did you read the Commonwealth Foundation Study? It costs Medicare on average $1000 more per year to treat an HMO/Medicare patient. I thought they were suppose to save money. On the contrary, they look for ways to add higher coding diagnosis to they elderly patients to then extract it from medicare.
The end is near. Run for that MBA now

]]> By: Hoover http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8308 Hoover Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:35:33 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8308 Tim, I'm sorry that you're having a difficult time with Medicare. No doubt there are people that certainly need Medicare and others that are wasteful, which drives people like yourself out of coverage. I think that shows some of the weaknesses in the system. Put yourself in the place of some of these physicians that read this site. They've trained incredibly hard for many, many years and many of them have gone into large amounts of debt so that they may serve the public by offering health care services. The bottom line is that they deserve to be compensated well for the amount of training and the knowledge required to practice medicine. We're not talking about a job in construction, where skills can be acquired in a matter of weeks. To even be <em>allowed</em> to practice medicine legally in the U.S. requires <strong>years</strong> of training. Year after year physicians see cuts in payments from Medicare -- and more and more physicians will cut Medicare patients from their practice as the payouts get lower and lower. It's not that they don't care for the patients, but just like in any business the bottom line is money. Tim, I’m sorry that you’re having a difficult time with Medicare. No doubt there are people that certainly need Medicare and others that are wasteful, which drives people like yourself out of coverage. I think that shows some of the weaknesses in the system.

Put yourself in the place of some of these physicians that read this site. They’ve trained incredibly hard for many, many years and many of them have gone into large amounts of debt so that they may serve the public by offering health care services.

The bottom line is that they deserve to be compensated well for the amount of training and the knowledge required to practice medicine. We’re not talking about a job in construction, where skills can be acquired in a matter of weeks. To even be allowed to practice medicine legally in the U.S. requires years of training.

Year after year physicians see cuts in payments from Medicare — and more and more physicians will cut Medicare patients from their practice as the payouts get lower and lower. It’s not that they don’t care for the patients, but just like in any business the bottom line is money.

]]> By: Tim http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8248 Tim Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:51:19 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8248 Really sounds like a bunch of doctors venting on this site. If you became a doctor to make fat cash, you did it for the wrong reasons. and since I have been studing medicine from all over the world, I have concluded that, doctors in many many other countries are better skilled more experienced and knowledgeable. And they make much less that doctors here in the USA. I have yet to hear them complaine or whine over money like doctors do here. Really sounds like a bunch of doctors venting on this site. If you became a doctor to make fat cash, you did it for the wrong reasons. and since I have been studing medicine from all over the world, I have concluded that, doctors in many many other countries are better skilled more experienced and knowledgeable. And they make much less that doctors here in the USA.
I have yet to hear them complaine or whine over money like doctors do here.

]]> By: Tim http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8247 Tim Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:44:47 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-8247 Im disabled and have to have medicare not by choice, I have done everything I can to help myself. Im not 1 of the people wasteing medicare. but because of them I get second rate healthcare at best. my doctor dropped me when his pratice stopped takeing medicare, where does that leave me?? looking for a doctor to take medicare? Well I had to call the help line to find a doctor in my area, there are 2. I live in Sarasota Florida which has more doctors than cops, but only 2 take medicare. Medicare is not insurance and really doesnot help me at all, it just takes $94 a month out of my $610 disabuilty check. Its strange to hear people bash medicare that have never had to rely on it. They truly have a very narrow view. Im disabled and have to have medicare not by choice, I have done everything I can to help myself. Im not 1 of the people wasteing medicare. but because of them I get second rate healthcare at best. my doctor dropped me when his pratice stopped takeing medicare, where does that leave me?? looking for a doctor to take medicare? Well I had to call the help line to find a doctor in my area, there are 2. I live in Sarasota Florida which has more doctors than cops, but only 2 take medicare. Medicare is not insurance and really doesnot help me at all, it just takes $94 a month out of my $610 disabuilty check. Its strange to hear people bash medicare that have never had to rely on it. They truly have a very narrow view.

]]> By: Shining Hector http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-4202 Shining Hector Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:51:25 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/09/03/bend-over-medicare-is-fluffed-and-ready/#comment-4202 And then the collective outcry of AARP will be heard much louder as seniors demand access to care, and lawmakers are given the choice of a quick fix that will make most happy in time for reelection or sweeping and painful reforms to try and make the whole pyramid scheme work. Opting out of Medicare only works until accepting Medicare patients becomes a requirement for licensure. And then the collective outcry of AARP will be heard much louder as seniors demand access to care, and lawmakers are given the choice of a quick fix that will make most happy in time for reelection or sweeping and painful reforms to try and make the whole pyramid scheme work. Opting out of Medicare only works until accepting Medicare patients becomes a requirement for licensure.

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