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01-17-2013, 06:16 AM
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Run Forrest! RUN!
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Does this sound like anyone here?
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The other day, The American Spectator’s David Catron wrote an eye-opening piece — this one here “A Pimp for Obamacare Feels the Pain.”
In which Catron, a professional in the health care revenue business, tells the tale of an anonymous but vociferous liberal doctor who was one of a handful out there in blogland supporting Obamacare.
The crux? Here’s Catron:
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Among them was an ER physician who writes under the nom de plume “Shadowfax.” This particular “docblogger” stands out in my memory because he was peculiarly uninformed about the nuances of the issue and yet utterly dismissive of anyone, including other physicians, who attempted to make him understand that he would one day regret advocating an increased government role in medicine. I occasionally crossed swords with him myself, but it was an exercise in futility. Like most soi disant progressives, this self-satisfied sawbones couldn’t imagine that he might be on the wrong side of this or any other issue.
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This unshakable belief in his own infallibility regarding government-administered health care was partly due to his hopelessly naïve view of Medicare, which he called “the most successful government program ever.” Never mind that this “success” had produced a $38 trillion unfunded liability, it was somehow “more efficient than private insurance.” Imagine my surprise, then, when I looked at the byline for this scathing piece bemoaning the depredations of that very program. The outraged author of “Medicare made the rules and now punishes doctors for following them” is none other than the redoubtable Shadowfax.
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“Shadowfax” as the liberal doctor billed himself, has
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…finally discovered what I and others told him years ago: Medicare rules are, as he apparently now realizes, “arbitrary and disconnected from reality.” He has also noticed that, when a physician runs afoul of these bureaucratic vagaries, the government is the judge, jury, and executioner. The immediate cause of his disillusionment is Medicare’s trick of performing a superficial audit of a doctor’s billing practices and, based on a hopelessly flawed statistical sampling method, accuses him of fraud.
Shadowfax querulously explains: “You get a letter from the Medicare … telling you that you’ve been reviewed, found guilty of upcoding, and this finding, based on a handful of charts, is extrapolated back several years.” The term “upcoding” is industry jargon indicating that a provider has submitted a claim using codes that produce inappropriately high payment. It’s rarely done deliberately, assuming it has actually occurred, but that doesn’t matter. “The result is a large demand for reparations, usually in the mid-to-high six figures. The physician group can either write a check or lawyer up and argue it chart by chart.”
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01-17-2013, 06:28 AM
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Run Forrest! RUN!
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You voted for it.
You demanded it.
You were completely sold on it...
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Pregnant women in one southwestern Pennsylvania town will soon need to look elsewhere to deliver their babies, after a local hospital announced it will end the practice in March -- blaming ObamaCare in part for the decision.
The Windber Medical Center will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can't afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.
The hospital, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is losing two obstetricians and two others are shifting their focus more to gynecology.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2IEOuubTx
It was going to be more affordable and more available...
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01-17-2013, 06:43 AM
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<--- has no clue
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01-17-2013, 06:46 AM
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<--- has no clue
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Wait for the sputtering...
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01-17-2013, 06:49 AM
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Story of my life . . . . 
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01-17-2013, 06:50 AM
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01-17-2013, 06:57 AM
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Time to go earn for the gub'mint health care system...
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01-17-2013, 07:00 AM
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^^^^ room for three dead Mercs inside.
Where's the shovel, assuming he shovel-ready, of course.
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01-17-2013, 07:01 AM
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i love ol'school cars
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01-17-2013, 08:29 AM
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Pointing the way...
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Your buddies Busybody and Vettemanonman were flogging this non-story yesterday.
Bottom line:
The female population in that town is aging.
There aren't enough women of child-bearing age to justify a full-time maternity ward.
Had you attended an accredited college, you might have learned about efficient use of capital in Econ 101.
But you didn't, and you didn't.
Once again, you bring great shame to yourself, your family, your tribe and good ole Sensei K.
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01-17-2013, 09:26 AM
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That hospital employs *coughs* twelve doctors. It delivers a baby only every other day and you're somehow shocked that it's OB docs are leaving for jobs where they're actually somewhat busy and therefore get paid far better.
You can see photos of their building on their website. Their facility is the size of a middle school. |
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