quickly or not able to get the doctor you had before. with medicare, you re adding maybe 10 million new folks to a system that wasn t working well to begin with, where you were having to wait for doctors, certainly specialists, long periods of time before you could get in. having a government program passing a law does not necessarily mean you are getting people good care, which is something that critics of obama care have offered the entire time we ve been discussing this. and it looks like it s coming to fruition. it s going to get worse. do you feel sorry for juan, as i do? because juan and his fellow political travelers, they want health care, good health care for the poor. right. and so do i. i do. but my theory, mary katharine, has always been that the way to get to that is not to destroy the entire medical system for everybody except those with big bucks, as juan acknowledged. that s not the way to get there. so i kind of feel sorry because
there is no middle man at all helping them out. that s essentially your practice, right? that s correct. dr. smith, you do take medicaid patients. do you fear that the flood of new patients in oklahoma which is inevitable is going to impact on your practice? actually we don t take medicaid patients for the same reasons dr. brooks just explain. i prefer to give care that patients need rather than that that a bureaucrat tells me to give them. i apologize for that mistake. i was told that you did take it. so you don t take medicare. do you take private insurance? we will file some private insurance as a courtesy to the patients for all but the most abusive carriers. we do not take medicaid and don t anticipate. we would rather treat those patients free of charge than take that money, not only from the federal government and the state government but also dictating the type of care these people receive. both of you guys are shutting
> tonight reaction to our reports on a possible doctor shortage in america and the health care system in canada. joining us from washington, juan williams. do you concur the shortage prediction? the whole system is changing. neither of them take medicare and medicaid patients at the moment. so they re not great examples. i think most doctors will tell you they don t think they re going to get a lot of money out of this system. let s assume and i disagree with you. these doctors are being upfront and they re saying, look, we want to do a practice a certain way and they have a right to do that. if that plays out that if doctors say not worth it, not making enough money, want to do quality care and get paid in a
would stop because there are a subset of physicians who really don t care to practice and to be dictated by a set of people who don t know what it s like. do you share that opinion, dr. smith? yeah, it s absolutely true. i don t deal with medicare either. i d rather tell the patient come on in, let s get you taken care of. leave that silly card that you have that says if both of you guys are right, and more doctors say you know what? i m not going to get involved with this. i got a decent practice on my own. i can make a living treating what i want to do, the way i want to do, then you re going to squeeze all of these 30 million people who are enrolled on obama care, if they can ever get the computer working, okay, into fewer and fewer doctors. and that is a recipe for chaos, it is not, dr. brooks? it is indeed. and plus, as you ve said, there are fewer and fewer doctors that will be practicing.
write you a check. and there is no middleman at all helping them out. that s essentially your practice? that is correct. doctor, you do take medicaid patients. do you fear that the flood of new patients in oklahoma, which is inevitable is going to impact on your practice? actually, we don t take medicaid patients. and for the same reasons dr. brooks just explained. the reason we don t is i prefer to give care that patients need rather than that that a bureaucrat tells me to give them. all right. i apologize for that mistake. i was told that you did take it. so you don t take medicare. do you take private insurance? we will file some private insurance as a courtesy to the patients for all but the most abusive carriers. but we do not take medicaid, and don t anticipate. we d rather treat those patients free of charge than take that money than strings that are attached, not only from the federal government and the state government, but also dictating the type of care these peopl