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Re: Medicare Payments Cuts, Was Blues Paying "Second Procedure"From: Wfevans (Wfevans@email.msn.com)Mon Mar 18 10:21:08 2002
RE: Kevin Dew Your are right, your wife is wrong. First of all, many of these older seniors have children who could help support them or pay for their medical care. After all, mom and dad raised them during one of this nation's greatest periods of prosperity. Secondly, the more doctors refuse to work for nothing, the more likely the government is to find some spare change. There are programs for the poor where they can get free groceries, housing and gas. But there are tax write offs for that. Doctors can not even deduct so many hours of pro bono work in a week.....which we would love to be able to do. It's high time to get political and stick to your guns. When I see Enron execs who made millions of dollars cheating employees and investors because they knew how to work the system, it makes me furious to think about the strip mining of medicine and the regulation shackles that have been placed upon doctors by various agencies. Let this country wake up and realize that in case of a bio terrorism attack, we are dead meat because we have downgraded physicians and hospitals. Upgrading can only start with everyone being willing to say "no!" Candace Evans Dallas, Texas
> ----- Original Message ----- There was a similar article in the local paper, perhaps it was a syndication, didn't look. I mentioned to my wife that I'd probably not accept new Medicare patients. She yelled at me for 15 minutes about "abandoning all those poor older people who can't afford." I told her that I'd continue to take Medicare so long as she paid her employee 3 hours worth of her hourly rate each week, as essentially that's what I'd be doing by seeing Medicare patients and losing money on each visit. Groceries don't give away food to the elderly, they don't get their cars or gasoline free, they don't get "free" housing. I'm sorry that some folks don't have the wherewhithal to afford medical care. Breaking even is one thing, especially in the days when other carriers paid enough to offset the loss of revenue by Medicare (and even some of the other carriers.) Paying out of my pocket for the privilege is another thing entirely. Kevin
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