A Pimp For Obamacare Feels The Pain

[wargunfan]

Your relationship with your doctor as the primary arbiter of medical need is rapidly becoming a thing of the past thanks to Obamacare.

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/11/a-pimp-for-obamacare-feels-the

The most ironic feature of this program is that it proves our Beltway masters intend to do what Shadowfax and other advocates of government-run health care claimed they would never do — tell doctors how to practice medicine: “Medicare is … reviewing charts and claiming that the physicians are fraudulently upcoding because we are documenting complete Reviews of Systems when they were not … medically necessary.” In other words, the ultimate arbiter of medical necessity is no longer your doctor. This program means that the medical need for an examination, test, or procedure is retroactively determined by the government.

[wargunfan]

Your doctor thinks you need a procedure or test? You had better hope and pray that the bureaucracy agrees.

[gator421]

Your doctor thinks you need a procedure or test? You had better hope and pray that the bureaucracy agrees.

You mean your insurance company?

[Gatorrick22]

We all tried to warn everyone. But, no one listened.

[gator996]

You mean your insurance company?

Exactly.

You're complaining that the government is checking for fraud?

Doctors comitting fraud should not be protected by anyone.

[gatorpa]

Exactly.

You're complaining that the government is checking for fraud?

Doctors comitting fraud should not be protected by anyone.

What they are talking in this case is not fraud.

[wargunfan]

Exactly.

You're complaining that the government is checking for fraud?

Doctors comitting fraud should not be protected by anyone.

Declaring a doctor guilty of fraud without specific facts and forcing him/her to prove his innocence is the polar opposite of fair practice. And I know you would scream bloody murder if you were put on trial in that manner. Liberals used to stand for protection of individual rights. You are a new breed.

[gatorpa]

Declaring a doctor guilty of fraud without specific facts and forcing him/her to prove his innocence is the polar opposite of fair practice. And I know you would scream bloody murder if you were put on trial in that manner. Liberals used to stand for protection of individual rights. You are a new breed.

If the GOV says it's true it must be (when it is going after a 1%er).