Hospitals / Doctors now refusing to take Medicare

[95CobraR]

Originally Posted by Bobcat

It all depends on their specialty and how hard they are willing to work. He is at the hospital at 5:30am , 6 days a week for rounds.....

Bob,
Your post was right-on.

But please allow me to explain exactly what a guy (or girl) has to do before to even start practicing medicine:

• College: 4 years (and you better have a GPA of over 3.5 [of 4.0]).
• Medical School: 4 years (then you compete with other guys that also had superior grades as a mere undergraduate).
• Internship: 1 year.
• Residency: 2 years. This is where they really test you. They'll send you down to a hospital ER and place you on call for 72 hours in a row. You hopefully can nap between gunshot victims, heart attacks, and bleeders. Many die at your hands so you must go talk to the surviving family members.
• Fellowship: 3 years. This is where experienced doctors watch your every move for three years.

Then you must pass the Board Certified exams, if you desire to be Board Certified. And who wants to see a doctor that isn't?

Then it gets easier. You just need to rent office space, hire a nurse, and a receptionist (at a minimum). That is $300,000 in annual overhead expenses before you see the first patient (including a massive malpractice insurance premium to protect against idiot lawyers who can get a law license online on the internet). Of course, you need to hook-up with other partners or other doctors in your specialty unless you want to be on call 24/7 for the rest of your life.

And despite the rumors, most doctors are sworn to help the sick. They always do it for free if the patient doesn't have insurance (you swear by your Creed of Conduct). Most doctors take Medicare (it actually pays better and quicker than most insurance companies).

Obama and his fellow crooks in Congress have solved nothing. They just want control of 17% of this country's GDP.