Reformed out of a Doctor

Well, I didn't think that age 40 is old until I received a letter from my healthcare provider that I have exceeded the maximum age for the primary care physician that I selected. This is one of many joyous items we get to look forward to with the healthcare reform act. Providers are running a business and have to decide if these new constraints on costs and processes will allow them to be profitable. If not, they will dump us “old people” or general practices will stop seeing children. Pediatricians or Gerontologists could decide to change specialties. If any of you are thinking this is alarmist, wait until your insurance company sends you a letter that they changed your PCP or your spouse’s, parent’s or child’s PCP because of their age or they just “decided” they have too many patients. Once enough of this happens the government will “have to step in” because there aren’t enough doctors in the critical specialties. This is part of a chain reaction leading to the need for full government intervention in healthcare controlling doctors and removing insurers from the equation. I hope that they have planned out where they will employ all of the former insurance workers. These folks will probably find gainful employment in different legal organizations for suing the government and/or with the government defending them from their own citizens. Healthcare is a very personal thing and I am currently taking this personally and so should the rest of the country.