To the editor:
Remember the words from Nancy Pelosi regarding the Obamacare bill? “We have to pass it in order to see what’s in it.”
Obama also had some sobering words about the new bill, stating that the government has to make some tough decisions when it comes to seniors and some of the care they are receiving. The genie is coming out of the bottle and it looks as if a lot of people are going to be in trouble, seniors and people with private insurance companies alike.
My 91-year-old mother, at an assisted living facility in the Lakes Region, just received a letter from a physician who has been seeing her as well as several other seniors both at the assisted living and at his practice.
His letter states that he will no longer be taking Medicare and private insurance patients.
The reason for his decision is that “insurance companies, big business administrators and government have taken the medical profession away from the physicians.” In addition it was stated “it has made it financially unfeasible to sustain a private practice.”
His solution to the problem will be that if my mother continues to desire his services she will have to pay him $25 every week throughout the year. This fee if she so chooses to subscribe to it, would be in addition to the Medicare fee she pays every month and her supplemental medical insurance that she receives through the champions of seniors, AARP. The same organization that wholeheartedly supported and applauded Obamacare!
It should also be noted that this fee of $25 would only apply to seeing the physician for a diagnosis and directions for her care. How ironic that under this administration and the previous Democratic Congress legislation has made it impossible to get the care that was lauded as a fair and widespread benefit for all.
Even more ironic is the fact that it seems having Medicare and supplemental insurance and those premiums, in the case of my mother a mere $300 a month will now not be sufficient if she wants reliable and convenient care. We also know of course that there will be no increase in Social Security to help pay for this ironic end result of Obamacare.
Shame on Obama and Nancy Pelosi and her ilk for bringing this travesty down on all of us.
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