83% of Doctors Considered Quitting Over Obamacare: Scary?

check out what happened in MA when they instituted Romney care which is almost identical. Nothing bad happened at all.

Here is a reality. Your daughter MUST have insurance., as mine. They must have it or else. If the insurance companies were allowed to continue, they could drop our daughters at will any time, put caps on their coverage... and dump them for any reason. Our daughters were lucky, they were not dropped, but w/out this bill in place they very well could be.

I had an accident 2 days ago. I had to see a doctor, I am uninsured, denied for prexisting condition. Can not get insurance until 2014. I could not get in anywhere, no doctors offices, no "free clinics", no low income clinics, no where... none. Today, finally was able to get a ride into the ER, my only last resort. The doctor could not believe I was not in there 2 days ago, but reality is, no insurance, unable to even walk, let alone drive, been crawling to get to the bathroom, and no, have not even eaten. But had to do the damn ER thing. I am home, bandaged up, crutches and will have a whopping bill to try and find the $$ to pay.

Now, If I was not "denied" I could have insurance... my retirement will even pay for it, but I am denied just because of that pre existing condition.

Your daughter and mine can not afford to take the chance of having no insurance... they can not. This bill, the ACA, prevents them from ever being dropped from coverage. and in 2014, 30 milllion more of us will be able to buy insurance and not be denied.

I will look those up, thank you.

My friend down the street was denied further care for her cancer, because her insurance wanted to play games. She had to fight non stop to get any treatment at all, and then they just dumped her. Was not until the ACA was in place, that she was able to resume care again. And they said she had no chance of survival before, that is why they dumped her. I talked to her 2 days ago, she is still going strong, she gets care now, and all thanks to this bill Obama wanted pout through. and if it is any consolation to you, she hates Obama probably more than you do. But that bill saved her life.

I have a friend who visited TX from Canada. They were in a very bad car crash. Her husband had a broken pelvis, internal injuries, etc. They stabilized him only, then put him in a wheel chair and dumped him on the sidewalk to find his own way home. They could not get back to Canada fast enough, so he COULD get care.

My friend who lives in AZ, they had a private insurance policy, to cover everything, even if they could not work due to illness or injury. Heard about it on Limbaughs program so they signed up. Hubby in a serious accident, broke his neck. after 3 days in the ICU, trying to stabilize him for surgery, he was put in a wheel chair and put out on the sidewalk for his wife to take him home. He was partially paralyzed, she had to get him into her truck by herself, and try and do all his care at home herself. Insurance had decided to deny his care, just for the hell of it, so hospital tossed him out. Wife spent months trying to care for her invalid husband on her own, and fighting w/ the insurance company and attorneys, because the hospital was suing them for the 3 days in the ICU, that insurance decided to deny.

This is America, and this is ok with you? I think it is despicable.

With all due respect, the examples you cite are anecdotal. While I have no doubt they may have occurred, one can find in any system examples where things have not worked well. Further, I will acknowledge that the American system is not perfect.

The issue is the system itself, not individual examples. I can give you examples, as recently as this past weekend when I was told by a young guy from Toronto how his mother came down with cancer and was told she would have to wait seven weeks for chemotherapy. They took out a mortgage on the family farm that has been in their family for five generations and went to Detroit (Henry Ford Hospital) to get chemo. He was understandably very bitter. Again, anecdotal.

From a systemic standpoint, the landmark case in Canada is Chaolli v. Quebec. This involved a man who had waited in pain for over a year (in the US the wait is about 2-3 weeks) for a hip replacement and wanted to buy private insurance so he could jump over the line. The Quebec government said he could not, so he sued.
The court found for Chaolli and said two significant things:
1. It came right out and said that people in Canada were actually dying while waiting for care;
2. It noted that "access to a waiting list is not access to health care".
That is precisely where we are headed under Obamacare along with huge taxes. You will be taxed if you do not have health insurance and you will also pay an additional 3.8% tax when you sell your house. (Remember when he promised if you "earned under $250,000 your taxes would not go up a dime". That is an outright lie)

The experience of your friends is terrible. However, the solution is not Obamacare.
Do some simple math if you still doubt the coming waiting lists.
1. Arguably, the law will result in 30 million new people having health insurance.
2. The law does nothing to expand the capacity of the health care system (although it does provide for the hiring of 140,000 additional IRS agents).
Waiting lists are inescapable
At the same time, the law calls for cutting another $500 Billion from Medicare. Those cuts will be in the form of reduced payments to doctors and hospitals for people over 65 at a time when that segment of the population is about to explode.
If you are a doctor or hospital, who will you put at the end of the line- someone for whom you are going to be paid even less than you are now or someone who has private insurance.

The simple math is inescapable.