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Your opinions, please, on passage of Obamacare by the Supreme Court!! - Lynn

Posted: Jun 28, 2012

Will MTs become dinosaurs?

Will everything be point-and-click by the doctors and traditional dictation become a thing of the past?

I've been using IntraScript for my doctors' dictation for many years now. Will these types of digital platforms become obsolete?

I admit I'm worried. I'm the sole support of my family.

All opinions are appreciated, and I look forward to reading each one....

Go check out the politics board to see opinions - nm

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I don't think it matters one way or the other. We're - already hosed in this profession. nm

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Well, if you are one of the 32 million working poor whose - premiums will plummet drastically

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or perhaps disappear entirely under this law, that's something to look forward to, surely? BTW, just learned the federal number is those earning up to 133% of the official poverty line income.

And if you're not sort of poor, at least for the past 2 years you've had the security of knowing your coverage can no longer be canceled if you get sick and you no longer have a lifetime limit. Remember things like a $100,000 limit for a cancer, including metastases and recurrences? Surely that's something for us all out of this.

are you kidding me? My rates have gone up! - sadMT

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Thanks to Obamacare, my rates have already gone up $100 a month. That's $1200 a year extra coming out of my pocket that I can't afford. Nobody's premiums are going to plummet. Everyone will be forced to buy insurance but if you can't afford it, well tough... you'll have to pay a fine or a tax or whatever the heck they're calling it today.

IMO, this whole health care fiasco is just a way to run the insurance companies out of business so that eventually we will all be forced to be on a single payer government system. If you want anything done incompetently and at great expense, let the government handle it.

This is going to hurt small businesses, too, because they will either have to provide insurance for their employees or pay a fine if they don't. The fine will be cheaper so a lot of them will do that instead. Then nobody will be able to get employer-provided health insurance, which is ridiculous anyway. Why should your employer be responsible for your insurance? That's where a lot of the problems come in. You're stuck with the plan they offer, and some people will stay at a job they hate just to get the insurance.

The solution is to have everyone responsible for their own insurance. If a company wants to give you some money towards your premium, well, then that's a nice perk. Let insurance companies sell across state lines so that competition drives the price down. We can shop for the coverage we want, keep our costs down, and our job options open. Our employer doesn't pay for our home or car insurance, so why should they pay for our health insurance?

We know point-and-click alone, as it's being used now, is bad - patient care. So, no. I am not worried. NM

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Huh? - Precedent

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Just because it's bad, then does that mean that it will be corrected/reversed?

If you believe that, then I would say that you are VERY naive.

Affordable Healthcare Act - thrilled!

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Pleasantly stunned. Didn't think Roberts had it in him, so he really surprised me.

Utter shock - Dish

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Since we MTs have been the vanguard for the Affordable Health Act, we'll all be getting screwed, like us. I listened to a lot of the tapes from the legal arguments, and Obama's appointees dominated all the questions. Obama should be scared, however, because the Supreme Court is calling his mandate a TAX which he never had the guts to call it. If you can't see the health system starting to fall apart, this sealed it. Bad day for Americans.

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