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Good news for anti-Obamians

By: renny (Diary)  |  July 13th, 2010 at 11:51 AM  | 

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Carly Fiorina is up 2 pts. against Boxer (47%-45%–SurveryUSA poll).

TX doctors may exit Medicaid due to low reimbursements (DFW). Bad sign for Obamacare.

60% of voters have lost confidence in Obama (WashingtonPost/ABC poll), and the other 43% have been lobotomized since the election.

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  • rossgroup2

    A recent CBS/NY Times rated Obama a FAILURE by 55 or more percent on economy/jobs, foreign policy, immigration and gulf oil spill. Some were over 70 percent.

    I’m cautiously optimistic we can at least stop the hemorrhaging in November.

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  • renny

    Supposedly, in Cuba, and England (whose NHS is beloved of the recent recess appointment–Berwick) many drs. are paid so poorly they moonlight by driving taxis or simply moving away, such as here, if they can get here. Cuban drs. in the US barely qualify as nurses.

    And that’s what Obamacare really promises: nurse practitioners leaving you a recorded message: Take two aspirin and don’t call back.

  • izoneguy

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Doctors-Threaten-to-Pull-Out-of-Texas-Medicaid-98202569.html

    “They’re going to try to expand the rolls of Medicaid … and at the same time they want to reduce the reimbursement to doctors,” he said. “With the (pay) trend going downwards, I don’t see additional physicians signing up. It’s just not going to happen.”

    A survey by the Texas Medical Association, the state’s largest physicians interest group, showed that 45 percent of its members who responded said they would limit how many Medicaid patients they would treat if the Medicaid fees were cut by 1 or 2 percent, while another 24 percent said they would stop accepting any Medicaid patients.

    The issue is one of financial survival, said Tom Banning, the association’s lobbyist. He said Medicaid pays about 70 percent of what Medicare, a federal insurance program for people age 65 or older, pays for the same service. Commercial insurers are also lowering their rates, he said.

    In planning their business survival strategies, doctors “have tended to look at what is the lowest-paying part of the market, which is Medicaid. It’s not a hard economic decision,” Banning said.

    Hmmmm, almost 70% of the doctors surveyed will limit and stop seeing Medicare patients……ObamaCare is MediCare on steroids.
    I don’t even think Dr. Berwick will be able to sway them……