A Portland maine doctor has ditched all insurance patients. All cash now. He is doing well, just like before medicine was ruined by medicare.
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Before the switch, Ciampi had about 2,000 patients. He lost several hundred, he said. Some patients with health coverage, faced with having to seek reimbursement themselves rather than through his office, bristled at the paperwork burden.But the decision to do away with insurance allows Ciampi to practice medicine the way he sees fit, he said. Insurance companies no longer dictate how much he charges. He can offer discounts to patients struggling with their medical bills. He can make house calls.
“I’m freed up to do what I think is right for the patients,” Ciampi said. “If I’m providing them a service that they value, they can pay me, and we cut the insurance out as the middleman and cut out a lot of the expense.”
Gordon Smith, a spokesman for the Maine Medical Association, wasn’t so sure, saying most patients either want to use the insurance they pay for or need to rely on Medicare and Medicaid.
***If they want to use insurance they can go elsewhere; if they want other people to pay their bills by medicare, then they can go elsewhere, if they want to pay their own bills, then they can go to this doctor.***
Even with the loss of some patients, Ciampi expects his practice to perform just as well financially, if not better, than before he ditched insurance. The new approach will likely attract new patients who are self-employed, lack insurance or have high-deductible plans, he said, because Ciampi has slashed his prices.
“I’ve been able to cut my prices in half because my overhead will be so much less,” he said.
Before, Ciampi charged $160 for an office visit with an existing patient facing one or more complicated health problems. Now, he charges $75.
***Exactly, except Romney-Obamacare will make this where you must buy insurance and you need to pay cash in order ot get good care. Madness.***
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My prediction: The government will eventually make a law making it mandatory that doctors participate in Obamacare health insurance to retain their practice license. If doctors don't accept insurance, then they lose their license to practice medicine, then they become either unemployed or jailed.
we all need to become our own doctors - the herbs and spices we use in our kitchens are medicinal, many of the weeds in our gardens & lawns (if we don't use poisons!) are edible & medicinal (dandelion is a great example) - if we stay away from corporate food and chew our food (Ghandi recommended 100 chews per mouthful unless you are sick, then 200 - i'm happy to get to 50) put another way "Drink your food and chew your liquids" Give our poor doctors a rest and let the devil's chemists find another job!
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