President Obama planning health care mystery shoppers?

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A good doctor can be hard to find and, as anyone who’s looked for a new primary care physician knows, finding one who’s accepting new patients can be next to impossible

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[rock_bottom]

might as well, if I have to look out for mystery shoppers in my retail job. clearly healthcare is more important.

that being said, I never liked the idea of mystery shops, but I'm obviously biased because I'm currently in retail, and as a manager, if affects my review.

but whatevs.

Former Deputy Health and Human Secretary under George W. Bush, Tevi Troy, says the program is going a bit too far.

"It's clearly creepy, why is the federal government spending $350,000 dollars on some kind of James Bond spy program. The real problem is that doctors don't like the impositions that the government makes in terms of payment, practice and process when you deal with the government. When you take Medicare and Medicaid patients, and if you want to address this issue, what they should do is try to fix the problem rather than spy on doctors," Troy said.

Of course he would say that.

[browneyedguuurl]

LMAO @ that ridiculous quote. I actually like that idea.

[liret]

Seeing how bad the problem is does not equal 'big brother tactics.'

I've been trying to find a doctor lately. The two I checked with made sure I had private insurance before telling me they could take new patients. I'd think it would be important to know how many I would have had to try if I was on a state plan.

[emofordino]

this is exactly what i asked myself when i read this! no one is going to agree on adding measures to make doctors accept more patients with medicare/medicaid unless it's proven that doctor's are discriminating against their potential patients based on what insurance they have. and no one who is benefiting from this practice is going to admit that it's happening because they all want more money.

i get that no one wants to be "spied" on or whatever but i don't really see it as any different than any other measure that the state and federal government takes to make sure that doctors and other health care professionals aren't hurting their clients or doing shady things. i'm in nursing school and i had my nursing home rotation last quarter and there were always state officials and whatnot checking up to make sure that everything was legit and up to code, etc.

[perthro]

What this article doesn't mention is how to sign up to be a mystery shopper. >D Being in FL, and having a HELL of a time finding a doctor, much less an AFFORDABLE one... it would be interesting to see the change, if any, in the attitudes of local people.

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can i have this job? seriously.