{"id":11653,"date":"2010-03-24T17:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:57:54","slug":"my-kind-of-doctor-i-am-responding-to-the-situation-created-by-this-new-law-by-exercising-my-right-not-to-participate-in-any-health-insurance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11653\/my-kind-of-doctor-i-am-responding-to-the-situation-created-by-this-new-law-by-exercising-my-right-not-to-participate-in-any-health-insurance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"My kind of doctor: “I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A letter from a sane doctor, posted at The Corner on NationalReview.com:<\/a><\/p>\n

March 23, 2010 <\/p>\n

My Dear Patient,<\/p>\n

As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping changes.<\/p>\n

I have always conducted my medical practice with my patient\u2019s best interests as my first priority. Although not legally obliged to do so, I have routinely provided you with a receipt that has all the codes necessary to bill your own health insurance company for any reimbursement to which you are entitled. Until now, that insurance company was a free enterprise despite the fact that it was heavily regulated by state and federal laws. Now the situation is quite different. Through the new law\u2019s mandates, regulatory powers and reform, health insurance is and will be largely a government activity which will have an ever larger jurisdiction over how doctors practice, make clinical judgments and are paid.<\/p>\n

The new law provides for about 150 new government agencies, many of which are designed to be \u2018oversight\u2019 bureaucracies which will have the right to decide what medical care is legal to provide through insurance. Among other things, they will have the right to review my medical care of you and read your medical record. Now, as soon as you submit our economic transaction to your insurance company for reimbursement, you have involved me in these regulations and put me in the jurisdiction of government for my activities, decisions and behavior as your doctor.<\/p>\n

No one can have two masters. Either I can serve you as my patient or I can serve the government. Either I can continue to make your welfare and health my only concern, including the protection of your privacy and medical records, or I can abide by ever-increasing amounts of government regulations and dictates to my decisions. I can\u2019t do both. I choose to continue to follow my conscience and practice medicine to serve you.<\/p>\n

For this reason, I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A letter from a sane doctor, posted at The Corner on NationalReview.com: March 23, 2010 My Dear Patient, As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18624,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18624\/overnight-news-health-care-to-be-thankful-for-finding-a-doctor-you-can-trust\/","url_meta":{"origin":11653,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Health care to be thankful for: Finding a doctor you can\u00a0trust.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I go to a free-market doctor: Cash-and-carry is the ideal, but if you want to get your insurance company involved, you'll be doing all the paperwork. 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