Are Doctors Staging 'A Quiet Revolution'?

Are you looking forward to the implementation of Obamacare (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)?

Mendota Heights Patch Blogger Donald Lee isn't. "I expect the PPACA to be a Train Wreck, but it is already doing enormous damage," he wrote.

He went on to explain that he recently talked to several doctors who left third-party payers to become independent. "They had to give up their old practices, and sometimes spend years finding a whole new group of patients," Lee wrote. "Freed of the burden of insurance paperwork, they lowered their fees and sought out patients willing to pay them directly, on the spot in a world where most people expect health care to be effectively 'free.'"

Lee then warned of the dangers of health control from a "central authority."

There are eight comments on the blog post, and it has been shared 18 times.

Here are some of the comments so far:

Deb M.: I am a supportive of a single payer health care system. As long as there is technology necessary for diagnosis there is a need for some type of system. For run of the mill healthcare needs I believe the system your article addresses to be excellent but for complex cases there is no way it will work.

Dr. Tom Spicer: Right on Mr. Lee! There will come a time in the near future where I too, will need to make the hard decision, to leave the security of 3rd party pay reimbursements, or go cash and take care of my patients the way I would like to be treated. Thank you again for an excellent article.

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