Glenn Beck

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

I hear the insurance industry whining ... and desperately playing loopholes and the blame game as their free ride subsidies for MA from the government have been cut off.

Went to the Doctor today and as he was writing out prescriptions for me, I mentioned to him that in June I would become a Medicare subscriber. He assured me that this was no problem, but he told me that Medicare had cut 30% of their payments to him in Dec 09 and just this month reduced their payments to him by 21%. So, if he was receiving 100 dollars a visit in Dec, in May 2010 he'd be getting 49 dollars.
If this is the solution to Medicare costs rising, the Doctors will be run out of business, and the new generations of Docs will be burned out,underpaid, and overworked before they've been an MD for 10 yrs. Does anybody see a problem here??