March 25 - AAPS member on Fox News
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 10:34AM AAPS member Linda Johnston, MD wrote her patients on Tuesday following the signing of the health care "reform" bill. Her letter read in part:
"I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program. I will still provide you with the same medical services that I always have, but the interaction will be exclusively and privately between you and me."
Her full letter was featured at National Review Online.
Dr. Johnston will be on the Neil Cavuto show later today between 4pm and 5pm EDT on the Fox News Channel. If made available we will post the footage at the Take Back Medicine video blog: http://www.takebackmedicine.com/video . In the meantime you can watch AAPS member Lee Vliet, M.D.'s appearance on Fox News from yesterday.
You can also listen to Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist practicing in New York City and author of the Physicians' Declaration of Independence, explain how the most effective approach for inviduals to protect themselves from government intrusion into their health care decisions is for both patients and physicians to opt out of the third party payment. Audio interview from WBT radio is at http://www.wbt.com/tara/archive/detail.aspx?BlogEntryID=10103807 .
Reader Comments (6)
Thank you Dr Johnston
Hopefully, more physicians will have the courage to do what Dr. Johnston is doing.
And more to come....... yep, this bill was a good 'un!
I'M SO SICK OF HEARING THE DEMACRATS, WOULD THEY LIKE A LITTLE CHEESE WITH THEIR " WINNING" THEY ACT LIKE THEY ARE SURPRIZED ABOUT AMERICANS BEING A LITTLE PISSED OFF AT THEIR OBOMA-CARE! WAIT UNTIL AMERICANS SEE WHAT IS REALLY GOING TO COST! THEN THEY WILL SEE THE "SKY FALL" . OH1! OH! THEY NEVER THREATEND BUSH DID THEY? JUST EVERYDAY HE WAS IN OFFICE.
CONGRATULATIONS, DR. JOHNSTON and GOD BLESS YOU.
Instead of just "commenting", YOU TOOK ACTION, THE VERY TYPE OF ACTION THAT OBAMA "FEARS."
As I understand it, Dr. Linda Johnston will no longer assist her patients by supplying the codes and diagnoses needed for her patients to file their own insurance forms for reimbursement from the insurance company for the services rendered by her. Unless her patients 1) are independently wealthy, 2) are themselves physicians or 3) are medically sophisticated enough to correctly fill out the often confusing paperwork themselves, her decision to not participate in the insurance process dooms her patients to having to pay all her charges out of their pockets. Bravo! By making it practically impossible for her insured but not wealthy patients to get the reimbursement of these costs, she may achieve her goal of causing some changes in the health care delivery system: the demand for her services as a physician will decline and she can spend more time on the internet writing letters to her congressmen.