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Re: Medicare cuts From: Joe (forcep@intercom.net) Tue Sep 25 06:10:35 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: ONC: Malignant Melanoma and Ovarian Tumor" Previous message: Richard Chudacoff: "Re: Medicare cuts" In reply to: Gordon Goldman: "Medicare cuts" Good show, Gordon. ACOG has been out of the loop for years , at least politically. Let's see , GM workers on strike - you think something will happen? Art , you my man. Joe C Gordon Goldman wrote: > Listers, > > Had a call from Chuck Hammond's office today soliciting support for the > battle against the proposed Medicare payment cut of 10% for next year. > > Gave him an earful of stuff he did not want to hear, but neither could > he deny or argue about. > > I told him ACOG is wasting financial resources on this and if they OBGWH > continues this course, I will probably cease to support it. The only > way the Medicare 'crisis' will ever be solved is when patients are > unable to get physicians to care for them. When that happens, the > politicians will resolve it immediately, equitably and permanently; and > not a minute sooner. Until then, they will continue to 'chip away' at > us by giving us 1-3% raises while inflation and overhead rise 3-5%. > Patients in our area began having problems getting a physician that > would see Medicare patients and because we still did, our schedule began > to fill with those patients. Finally, we had to stop accepting any new > Medicare patients as of Jan '07. Ditto for Medicaid 10 years ago. > > What do y'all think about that? > > Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG > Private Practice, St. Louis, Mo. > Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: ONC: Malignant Melanoma and Ovarian Tumor" Previous message: Richard Chudacoff: "Re: Medicare cuts" In reply to: Gordon Goldman: "Medicare cuts"

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