posted August 17, 2013 07:44 PM            

*QUOTE*

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for trusting and allowing me to manage your health.

Today, I find it necessary to inform you that because of falling reimbursement rates, health care reform-related requirements, increased administrative tasks, and increased operational and billing pressures; I will be opting out of Medicare Insurance effective October 01, 2013.

Sorry for the inconvenience I may cause you, and thank you in advance for your understanding of my situation.

Should you have questions regarding this letter, please call my office at xxx-xxx-xxxx.

Sincerely,

{{no signature}}!!

{TYPED NAME}, D.O.

*end/QUOTE*

posted August 17, 2013 08:17 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by mirage29:
Here's the shock I got the other day...

*QUOTE*

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for trusting and allowing me to manage your health.

Sorry for the inconvenience I may cause you, and thank you "in advance" for your understanding of MY 'situation'. (wha??????)

Sincerely, {{??????}

{{no signature}}!!

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....Really folks, did I 'need' this to happen NOW?

posted August 17, 2013 10:39 PM            

There's an asteroid 5180 OHNO
It's conjunct my Jupiter Cancer...
Jupiter 27.23'29" 8th
OHNO 27.22'16" !!

OHNO>>>>>>>!!!!!

TODAY, transiting Ohno is 3.29' Gemini.
Transiting Ohno is conjuncting my natal 4707 KHRYSES (crisis)at 3.0'17" Gemini--- in natal (Taurus) 6th House!

TODAY, transiting Khryses is 21.03.27" Taurus... at the door of my 6th House Cusp ( Taurus 22.38'8")!

oh yeah.... I to study asteroids!

PROGRESSIONS....

P'Pluto CONJUNCT p'Ohno ... 25.43 & 25.27 LEO! TODAY, transiting Sun-Ceres exact conjunction at 25 LEO 13~14'

posted August 18, 2013 10:17 AM            

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Passion, Lust, Desire. Check out my journal

posted August 18, 2013 11:38 AM            

Well, the idiot wont have any business cause private insurance companies aren't any better.

I used to go to a gyn years ago, who quit taking HMO's, due to the lack of reimbursment, he retired shortly after.

This really ****** me off.

Docs take an "oath" and all of them can just go to hell for not honoring that oath.

It's not supposed to be about the $$, criminy docs, unless they are a specialist, dont make any money anymore anyway!

This country is getting stupider and stupider.

Do you all know that a hospital's medicade/medicare reimbursments are based highly on surveys?

A hospital gets a bad survey return and guess what...their medicaid/medicare reimbursments could be pulled!

The government is a fakery.

Nurses, and docs in your situation, mirage, spend all of our time doing paperwork to please the government so the hospital gets it's paultry, ever decreasing reimbursments.

The friggin government in cohoots with pharmaceutical companies run American healthcare.

The government directs physicians how to care for their patients or no reimbursment and, if the patient is not happy, no reimbursment.

Docs, even tho I disagree with your's decision, and wonder if it is even "legal" really are having their hands tied more and more.

From my point of view, if somebody ends up in a hospital, they are far better to NOT have insurance, medicare/medicaid cause if certain things are not approved they will not get appropriate care.

Now, if the person is a "self pay" as it is legally deemed, basically no insurance, medicaid/medicare, everything is done for the patient due to the sue potential in the US.

grrrrr.....

gotta put my soapbox away for a bit, get some cleaning done, got today off cause the photographer is coming tomorrow then house on MLS, but I will have my soapbox handy cause this is a subject that drives me INSANE!

O, and by the way, before I put it away I ask nursing students what they are teaching in nursing school now-a-says...."CYA" cover your arse.

I read doctors dictations on patients and they have to actually document a time frame that they spent with the patient or no reimbursment.

This Virgo, also a nurse who still lingers in my life, I had to drive it home to him. I have been an ICU rn for 13 years, he is on his 3rd year. He would want to give baths, clean the room, along with documentation and necessary patient care.

I always tell new nurses "this is your license (pointing to the computer for documentation) and that (pointing to the paitent) is your conscience"

Good docs have the same dilemma, but sounds like yours is afraid of something, good luck to him, he cant survive financially with the decision he has made.

ok, soap box away now!

posted August 19, 2013 03:00 AM            

ref page 2 from Lexxi's thread on 'Husband Ambulance' in LLC2.0 - she closed it for glitching. http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/004311-2.html

my post on "SPOSH" ... and Lexxi's descriptions on how she's been treated. I liked AriesEagle's comment that he thinks it's a 'minority' of the doctors that treat patients badly. I think that it's much higher. Not everyone has your Conscience, hippichick! Some have NO qualms about hurting patients. (Remember your post recently 'Hypothetical...' ref. )
/c

I am feeling SO DEEPLY intimidated... /c

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*THIS "raw" POST has NOW been CROPPED....
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Thank you, hippichick, for YOUR sole/Soul support here...

You have truly demonstrated that YOU are a "Healer and a (lovingly equally-outrageous) Friend to me.....

posted August 19, 2013 09:07 AM            

Like I say, these docs take an oath, I think somewhere in that oath it is, in very small print selling themselves to the government and the devil.

But, not all docs, again like I said, lots of times their hands are tied.

We had a doc the otherday, one of the baby clan, the "hospitalists" that walked out of a room, after his patient coded and died (44 yr old 450 lbs, got himself into some terrible breathing difficulties)...so the doc finally "calls" (stops) the code after 25 minutes, 20 of chest compressions (which dont work on obese people anyway, too much fatty tissue to get to the heart) walks out of the room, stating "this is ******** !" and kicks the bedside table I was writing on.

The patient's nurse a good friend of mine said he "tripped" over it, I didnt see it like that. nor feel it!

Ya really gotta know your crap today, the laws, the billing, your healthcare and your body to survive as a patient, both inside and outside of the hospital.

Another example:

I am finding out that it is common now-a-days to use Diprivan (Propoful) the drug that killed Michael Jackson, in out patient settings for colonoscopies and the like.

My mother's doc wanted to do an endo and a colo on her usind Diprivan, told her she was crazy. NOBODY is coming near me with that **** unless I am in a hospital.

I use it, it is under my scope of practice as a RN in a hospital setting to do so.

But outpatient?

And why?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Not that it is so much cheaper to use that the traditional sedatives, but folks wake up quicker, go home sooner so THEY CAN DO MORE PATIENTS (shhhhhhhh!)

And why? Cause the friggin government is cutting back on medicare/medicaid reimbursments, like I have already said, (sorry dont like repeating myself) and the docs gotta make a buck somehow.

I am guessing your doc made the decision because he did not want to mess with the paperwork, the hassel of strict government protocols, etc.

posted August 19, 2013 10:28 PM            

It is System Of A Down....

B-ware...

Watch at your own risk

friggin goverment!

posted August 19, 2013 10:43 PM            

The vid speaks to healthcare as well...

Lordy...Terri should probably go to sleep...

posted August 19, 2013 11:14 PM            

To balance out negativity sent out, I must do this...

IZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

posted August 20, 2013 10:23 AM            

PLEASE READ THIS
Obama Care. Just wait to see what happen in 2013 & 2014!
Age 76 Today, I went to the Dr. for my monthly B12 shot that I have been getting for a number of years. The nurse came and got me, got out the needle filled and ready to go then looked at the computer and got very quiet and asked if I was prepared to pay for it. I said no that my insurance takes care of it.
She said, that Medicare had turned it down and went to talk to my Dr. about it. 15 minutes later she came back and said, she was sorry but they had tried every-thing they could but Medicare is beginning to turn many things away for seniors because of the projected Obama Care coming in. She was brushing at tears and said, "Some day they too will get old", I am so very sorry!!
Please for the sake of many good people. . . ..be informed please .
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS...
At age 76 when you most need it, you arenot eligible for cancer treatment
* see page 272
What Nancy Pelosi didn't want us to know until after the healthcare bill was passed. Remember she said, "We have to pass the Bill so that we can see what's in it." Well, here it is.
Obama Care Highlighted by Page Number
THE CARE BILL HB 3200
JUDGE KITHIL IS THE 2ND OFFICIAL WHO HAS OUTLINED THESE PARTS OF THE CARE BILL.
Judge Kithil of Marble Falls, TX - highlighted the most egregious pages of HB3200
Please read this....... especially the reference to pages 58 & 59

JUDGE KITHIL wrote:
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Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.

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Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

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Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the government) for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations (such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN).

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Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their right mind come up with that?)

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Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of specialty, and the government will set all doctors' fees.

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Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient's age.

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Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an exception.
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Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five years. (Death counseling..)

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Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order.

HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on to identify:

"Finally, it is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to members of Congress.
Honorable David Kithil of Marble Falls , Texas

All of theabove should give you the ammo you need to oppose Obamacare. Please send this information on to all of your email contacts
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posted August 20, 2013 09:39 PM            

hon, it was just something I saw and shared.

You KNOW I despise the institution that pays me (very well)....

You know I am in your corner, but at 51, I kind of need a job.

That is why I preach and try to educate and take care of my patients (despite the system) and I leave work each and everyday with a clear conscience.

Yea, it sucks....it REALLY sucks!

But we are stuck for now and have to find another way.

The last president I voted for?

Regan, when I was 18 and my mother made me do so.

I see it as all rigged and a vote doesnt matter anyway.

So, little voices, I think, wont get us anywhere soon...however...we can work around it...

Atleast I do..

posted August 20, 2013 10:35 PM            

I preach..I TEACH! I preach to my patients and their families EDUCATION....I teach the newbies CYA, ofcourse, but it is the PATIENT and the family that matters.

As per the Nurse Practice Act, which I am legally bound and morally, a nurse is FIRST a patient and family advocate!

You would not believe the ways I find around legal issues..like, a family is not happy with a patient's care...legally I cant say anything, however IF I have bonded with the family and I feel "safe" I will slip in little innuendos, did it week before last and I am still PISSSED about the outcome.

EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE...become aware, and that FB post was given to me, from a fellow, retired RN who also knows.

There is NO reason we as recievors of American healthcare, yes I am one of those too, must bow down to the government and what the docs are dictated to do.

All we can do is know our **** !

AND I first realized this as my 2nd born was born with a severe heart defect. That is what got me into nursing, I was enchanted with healthcare all those years ago, but I used to be very shy...a doormat (friggin Pisces) then Sam was born and I had to educate myself cause NOBODY was going to be messin with my baby unless I understood!

There is NO reason, as patients, as recievors of American healthcare need to just sit back and take it.

My new doc, had to change due to insurance changes, is my brother's sis in law. She had to, upon first visit refer me for this test and that...I laughed...really? She knows me and she knows I will not be dictated by this crap!

But she is bound by the government and laws to do such.

Now, IF something happened to me and one of the "tests" I refused....I would be deemed "non compliant."

Bullcrap.

And not be insured.

Bullcrap.

I dont know what else to do cept educate.

I already bear arms in Texas, I speak out against law enforcement, LOUDLY and I know big bro is watching.

But I have a conscience and morals...

sheeeeat......

time for a lullaby and shut eye for me!

posted August 20, 2013 10:35 PM            

(clip) Doctor Hunter (Patch Adams) [1:32] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtqpVkVib0

Patch Adams used to have a clinic where people came together to Heal each other....

posted August 20, 2013 11:05 PM            

That's why I posted the System of a Down Vid

Sensationalism, likened to the same with healthcare.

What did that dude say from 9-5 something, from 5-9 YOU ARE MINE!!!

hahaha!!!

going to drop off kid at bfriend's have a blessed evening alone and listen to some SOD on the way home!